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Quotes About Anxiety

With this answer Elizabeth was forced to be contented; but her own opinion remained the same. It was not in her nature, however, to increase her vexations by dwelling on them. She was confident of having performed her duty, and to fret over unavoidable evils, or augment them by anxiety, was no part of her disposition.
~ Jane Austen
When she was discontented, she fancied herself nervous.
~ Jane Austen
The dread of being awakened from the happiest dream, was perhaps the most prominent feeling.
~ Jane Austen
Every thing was safe enough and she smiled over the many anxious feelings she had wasted on the subject.
~ Jane Austen
Such a companion for herself in the periods of anxiety and cheerlessness before her!
~ Jane Austen
Have a little compassion on my nerves. You tear them to pieces.
~ Jane Austin
happens every time. She gets up to go to the bathroom, leaving her bag behind to focus very intently on walking in a straight line. She's not drunk, she tells herself, but finally starting to relax. The worry of losing her job to the dreadful Louise is starting to recede, and life is looking rosy again, despite no plan and no viable ideas. In the bathroom mirror she
~ Jane Green
Now you'll just have to experience what the rest of the single sisterhood goes through every time we give out our number. We sit glued to our phones for days on end, hating mankind, and thinking that if only we were thinner, or fatter, or blonder, or darker, or louder, or more quiet, he'd phone.
~ Jane Green
She had felt a surge of fear so strong
~ Jane Smiley
I dream about standing in the lunch line naked. It's always the lunch line in ninth grade. Nakedness dreams are very common. I suppose they are.
~ Jane Smiley
Turns out, that's how it is with weddings. You just keep getting in deeper and deeper until you want to throw up.
~ Janet Evanovich
I like my nuts, Mooner said. I don't want them cut off. I'd be, like, nutless then.
~ Janet Evanovich
You're scared now, I can smell it... Benito Ramirez
~ Janet Evanovich
Problem was, I just didn't know if I was ready for marriage. Marriage is scary stuff. You have to share a bathroom. What's with that? And what about fantasies?
~ Janet Evanovich
Ranger hung my bag on my shoulder and looked at me. "Are you okay with all this?" "Actually, I feel like throwing up a lot." "It's the doughnuts." "It's my life.
~ Janet Evanovich
You were worried about me?" "No," Hal said. "I was worried Ranger would kill me if I lost you.
~ Janet Evanovich
I didn't do anything with him. He wanted a date for tonight." "Holy crap," Lula said. "And?" Connie said. "And I had a restless night thinking about it," I told them. "I bet," Lula said. "If it was me I would have been burning out the motor on my intimate appliances.
~ Janet Evanovich
Unzipping that body bag didn't bother me," Ranger said, "but I'm going to have nightmares over this casino.
~ Janet Evanovich
I wasn't afraid of the dark, but I wasn't in love with it either. Well, okay, I was afraid of the dark.
~ Janet Evanovich
The clock on the dash told me I was seven minutes late, and the urge to scream told me I was home.
~ Janet Evanovich
What do you have?" "A real bad feeling.
~ Janet Evanovich
When in dread, my rule was always to procrastinate.
~ Janet Evanovich
She switched the headlamp on and saw bats clinging to the side of the cave inches from her face. Someone whimpered. She supposed it was her. She switched the lamp off and played out the rope, dropping more slowly, trying to control the whimpering.
~ Janet Evanovich
Panic was the worst thing. When you panicked, you couldn't see possibilities. Then came despair.
~ Janet Fitch