Quotes About Anxiety

The only thing more humiliating than a detective who pisses his pants is one who can't be more than five feet away from a toilet for fear he'll shit himself.

It was my biggest fear to go crazy like my mom. I worried about waking up one day and no longer understanding reality in quite the same way, being lost in the black hole of madness.

Panic, as I said before, is the most contagious of all sicknesses.

She had always been far too afraid of losing her husband, or more properly, the financial parasol North had maintained over her head.

His nerve, his memory, and I can't remember the third thing

Pressure is playing for ten dollars when you don't have a dime in your pocket

For Every worry under the sun there is a remedy or there is none; if there is a remedy hurry and find it. If there is none never mind it.

There are two kinds of fears: rational and irrational- or in simpler terms, fears that make sense and fears that don't.

There are two kinds of fears: rational and irrational- or in simpler terms, fears that make sense and fears that don't.

The thing you hope will never happen to you might just happen to someone else instead, who has been spending their life dreading the thing that will happen to you.

There are two types of panicking: standing still and not saying a word, and leaping all over the place babbling anything that comes into your head.

Besides getting several paper cuts in the same day or receiving the news that someone in your family has betrayed you to your enemies, one of the most unpleasant experiences in life is a job interview.

she was so afraid of everything that she made it impossible to really enjoy anything at all.

This feeling is not unlike the sinking in one's stomach when one is in an elevator that suddenly goes down, or when you are snug in your bed and your closet door suddenly creaks open to reveal the person who has been hiding there.

When one's stomach is as fluttery as all that, it is nice to take a short break to lie down and perhaps sip a fizzy beverage, but there was no time for such things.

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The curious thing about being told to sleep on it - a phrase which here means, as I'm sure you know, 'to go to bed thinking about something and reach a conclusion in the morning' - is that you usually can't. If you are thinking over a dilemma, you are likely to toss and turn all night long, thinking over terrible things that can happen and trying to imagine what in the world you can do about it, and these circumstances are unlikely to result in any sleeping at all.

Besides getting several paper cuts in the same day or receiving the news that someone in your family has betrayed you to your enemies, one of the most unpleasant experiences in life is a job interview. It is very nerve-wracking to explain to someone all the things you can do in the hopes that they will pay you to do them.

La timidez es algo curioso, por que, al igual que las arenas movedizas, se apodera de las personas en cualquier momento y, también como las arenas movedizas, hace que sus víctimas miren hacia abajo.

I'm distraught, and I'm pregnant.

For fear is so unwelcome that it comes only in disguise, and guilt is its favourite one.

she still had that fundamental insecurity that one bout of poverty can inflict for a lifetime, and no amount of money remedy.

So it wasn't tourists or encyclopaedia salesmen he was worried about.

Perhaps all fear is worse than reality, just as all hope is better than fulfilment.