Quotes About Anxiety

Now it was just the three of us: the leader, the warrior, and the kid about to wet his pants. Guess who I was.

Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago? How did they work out? Didn't you waste a lot of fruitless energy on account of most of them? Didn't most of them turn out all right after all?

Today is the tommorrow you worried about yesterday.

Those who do not know how to fight worry die young.

one of the worst features about worrying is that it destroys our ability to concentrate.

It has been said that nearly all of our worries and unhappiness come from our imagination and not from reality.

If I had only known then how you make it easy to conquer fear, the paralyzing fear of an audience, I wouldn't have lost these past five years." The man who spoke these revealing

We shake hands and part good comrades. But I have to get out of here, good fellows or no good fellows. Too much fellow feeling makes me nervous, to tell the truth.

Whenever I feel myself sinking into a deep sleep, something always recalls me: "Not so fast now. Suppose you should go to sleep and it should happen. What then?" Clearly nothing. Yet there I lie, wakeful and watchful as a sentry, ears tuned to the slightest noise.

As anxious and limited as that love might have been, it had been love nonetheless.

What made him most anxious, he told me, was not the big questions—the mercilessness of fate, the possibility of heaven. He was too exhausted, he said, to wrestle with those. But he'd become impatient with the way people wasted their lives, squandered their chances like paychecks.

I was on the brown plaid sofa, watching TV and Scotch-taping my bangs to my forehead because Jeanette said that kept them from drying frizzy. Across the room on the Barcalounger, my mother was having her nervous breakdown.

Unlimited goodwill. Suspension of the compulsive anxiety complex. The beautiful character unfolds. All of those present become comically iridescent. At the same time one is pervaded by their aura.

Such an animal will swing indecisively from one worry to the next, giving a nip at each fear in turn, displaying the fickleness of despair.

Only the paranoid survive.

While gambling at checkers with some shipmates, he formulated an "infallible rule," which was that "if two persons equal in judgment play for a considerable sum, he that loves money most shall lose; his anxiety for the success of the game confounds him." The rule, he decided, applied to other battles; a person who is too fearful will end up performing defensively and thus fail to seize offensive advantages.

nobody knew, she said. He had called me right before he was going to be operated on for

By late February 2009 Jobs had secured a place on the Tennessee list (as well as the one in California), and the nervous waiting began. He was declining rapidly by the first week in March, and the waiting time was projected to be twenty-one days. "It was dreadful," Powell recalled. "It didn't look like we would make it in time." Every day became more excruciating. He moved up to third on the

But a solitary suffers terribly from any suspicion concerning the few people he loves—especially

Though I no longer liked him or respected him, the thought of his disapproval frightened me.

I preferred that my bad dreams be vague.

A man who is already insane was frightening enough, but when he goes crazy...

When I was a kid," I said, "I thought that if I worried about every way I could possibly die, then none of them would happen and I'd live forever.

You're a smart one, eh, Rawlins? Yeah, I said. So smart that I'm here with you worryin' 'bout my liberty, my money, and my life. If was any more smarter I wouldn't even have to breathe.