Quotes About Anxiety

I feel like a lot of the female relationships I see on TV or in movies are in some way free of the kind of jealousy and anxiety and posturing that has been such a huge part of my female friendships, which I hope lessens a little bit with age.

I have an internal protectiveness where it's like, if it comes to just me, as frightened as I am of losing someone I love or things going sour or simply being alone, there is a dark place in my brain where I'm like, It could happen and I'm okay, I'm prepared.

Deep breathing helps when your heart falls out of your chest. I learned this from the

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.

she smiled at him, and at her own fears.

I could see clearly that this growing belligerence was an aberration, coming not from intention, but from the Fear.

Nowadays most men lead lives of noisy desperation.

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.

Hens embarrass me; owls disturb me; if I am with an eagle I always pretend that I am not with an eagle; and so on down to swallows at twilight who scare the hell out of me. But pigeons have absolutely no effect on me.

Hens embarrass me; owls disturb me; if I am with an eagle I always pretend that I am not with an eagle...

Por qué no le preguntó usted como era que se encontraba allí con el? Encendí un cigarro y contesté: - Señora, tenía miedo de que desapareciera de repente

Half an hour, the Gottmans found, is also about how long it takes for the chemicals released during "fight or flight" to exit the body.

I was so anxious to do what is right that I forgot to do what is right.

that you seemed almost as fearful of notice and praise as other women were of neglect. (Edmund to Fanny)

Every young lady may feel for my heroine in this critical moment, for every young lady has at some time or other known the same agitation.

Her mind was all disorder. The past, present, future, every thing was terrible.

when people are waiting, they are bad judges of time, and every half minute seems like five.

The anxiety, which in this state of their attachment must be the portion of Henry and Catherine, and of all who loved either, as to its final event, can hardly extend, I fear, to the bosom of my readers, who will see in the tell-tale compression of the pages before them, that we are all hastening together to perfect felicity.

She had spoken it; but she trembled when it was done, conscious that her words were listened to, and daring not even to try to observe their effect.

Then, with the gladness which must be felt, nay, which he did not scruple to feel, having never believed Frank Churchill to be at all deserving Emma, was there so much fond solicitude, so much keen anxiety for her, that he could stay no longer. He had ridden home through the rain; and had walked up directly after dinner, to see how this sweetest and best of all creatures, faultless in spite of all her faults, bore the discovery.

Anne entered it with a sinking heart, anticipating an imprisonment of many months, and anxiously saying to herself, Oh! when shall I leave you again?

Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy.

She could not help frequently glancing her eye at Mr. Darcy, though every glance convinced her of what she dreaded; for though he was not always looking at her mother, she was convinced that his attention was invariably fixed by her.

Prepare yourself for something dreadful.