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Quotes About Anxiety

Insecurity is worse than poverty.
~ Confucius
While they have not got their aims, their anxiety is how to get them. When they have got them, their anxiety is lest they should lose them.
~ Confucius
The Master said, Study as though you could never catch up, [and if you did,] you would still be fearful of losing it.
~ Confucius
It's that undefined something we're really afraid of-the flicker of movement we don't quite catch out of the corner of our eye, the bad dream we can't quite remember when we wake up, the sound of a door opening downstairs we thought we heard. And worst of all, the things we're not sure even happened, the things that we might just have imagined, that might mean we're going mad, all those nameless, nebulous things we can't quite put our finger on and can only guess at.
~ Connie Willis
None of the things one frets about ever happen. Something one's never thought of does.
~ Connie Willis
She was afraid she'd have no hope at all of recognizing the drop without the wagon and boxes there. She would have to get Gawyn to show it to her
~ Connie Willis
Three o'clock's when every doubt and regret and guilty thought bubbles up out of your subconscious to plague you. 'The dark night of the soul,' F. Scott Fitzgerald called it.
~ Connie Willis
Dunworthy glanced anxiously at the displays. His temp was nearly 40.0. "The year is 2054," he said, bending over him to calm him. "It's December the twenty-second.
~ Connie Willis
What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return.
~ Cormac McCarthy
I was afraid I was going to die and then I was afraid I wasnt.
~ Cormac McCarthy
You ever get ill at ease? said Rawlins. About what? I dont know. About anything. Just ill at ease. Sometimes. If you're someplace you aint supposed to be I guess you'd be ill at ease. Should be anyways. Well suppose you were ill at ease and didnt know why. Would that mean that you might be someplace you wasnt supposed to be and didnt know it?
~ Cormac McCarthy
All his early dreams were the same. Something was afraid and he had come to comfort it.
~ Cormac McCarthy
I dont know how it would of turned out if I hadnt worried.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Imperilment is bottomless. As long as you are breathing you can always be more scared.
~ Cormac McCarthy
he knew he feared the world to come for in it were already written certainties no man would wish for.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Dont become anxious. Try not to get worked up. A word to the wise. Bird in hand. Bird in hand? A stitch in time. We're not out of the woods. What the fuck. Where's it say that? Penny wise and pound foolish. Honesty is the best policy. Jesus. Enough
~ Cormac McCarthy
The drought didnt know when the last one was and nobody knew when the next one was coming.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Farid had brought an invisible guest with him. Fear.
~ Cornelia Funke
Sometimes Dustfinger thought Basta's constant fear of curses and sudden disaster probably arose from his terror of the darkness within himself, which made him assume that the rest of the world must be exactly the same.
~ Cornelia Funke
Quite suddenly Meggie felt fear rise in her like black brackish water, she felt lost, terribly lost, she felt it in every part of her. She didn't belong here! What had she done?
~ Cornelia Funke
Bad news? Oh, festering fungus! What sort of bad news?
~ Cornelia Funke
The only way ghosts can hurt you is through your own fear
~ Cornelia Funke
Ketakutan membunuh segalanya. Akal, hati dan juga fantasi
~ Cornelia Funke
Nothing is more frightening then a fear you cannot name.
~ Cornelia Funke