Quotes About Anxiety

I thought I could hear movement in the kitchen, perhaps a voice murmuring, but it was a matter of urgency that I should get to sleep before two, the hour at which the drought, the refugee camps, the dying planet and all the faults and meannesses of my character would arrive to haunt me.

Memo: do not drink coffee. It makes me uselessly nervy, even trembly, and engenders baseless optimism about my powers of creation.

For fear was the great unspoken protagonist of the transition process in Spain. Fear most of all of another civil war:

Something the size of a fist was in my throat and it was catching the words and not letting them out. I started to panic. Why couldn't I speak?

It was the dread that comes about when you are allowed to have something that seems costly and yet you're not asked for payment.

her body held in frightened rigidity because if she dared stop clapping then a bad thing would come.

Didn't she know that knowing why doesn't make things any less scary?

yellow made her so nervous that she suspected it was the cause of war.

Why can't we kill this panic, or do the other thing and make it mute?

Sometimes we cannot see or hear or breathe because of our fright that this is all our bodies will know. We're scared by the happy hollow discipline that lines our brains and stomachs if we manage to stop after one biscuit. We need some kind of answer.

At the moment I would be less afraid of measles than of the revolutionaries.

It is not the event that causes our reactions but rather how we interpret the event, which makes us either confident or anxious.

One is that they allow the individual to create a mental model of perfect performance that shows what ideal execution looks like. The individual can then use this covert model to guide performance. Another is that visualization reduces performance anxiety, allowing the individual to successfully deal with unexpected or troublesome situations.

To live is to be happy to live. The usefulness of life ah! its expansion has not the mystic shapes we vainly dreamed of when we were paralyzed by youth. Rather has it a shape of anxiety, of shuddering, of pain and glory. Our heart is not made for the abstract formula of happiness, since the truth of things is not made for it either. It beats for emotion and not for peace. Such is the gravity of the truth.

Then, by dint of seeing the days born in the morning and miscarrying in the evening, I became afraid to die, and this fear was my first passion.

Writing separates the dream from the fear; writing about your anxiety makes it an entity existing outside of your goal.

At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.

Ivy League bumblers and drunks who had once pulled the levers of secret gov't in an age of high anxiety...These were the bastards who beat the bastards, unless it was all just dumb luck.

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

Why Anxiety Hurts, and How You Can Fix It

What bothered her most was the ceaseless movement of her mind, so locked in activity that it allowed her no rest, not even in sleep.

Training is a step-by-step training in mental calmness and emotional wisdom, designed to help patients recover from and prevent relapse of anxiety, depression, and similar stress related problems. It has been effective even when medications are not—and in fact, many of my patients find they don't need to use traditional prescription antianxiety medication at all.

Like depression, the effects of anxiety extend beyond the body and mind to the entire being, affecting not only one's sense of well-being but also health, longevity, work productivity, relationships—the entire human condition.

Genetics plays a role in determining who gets an anxiety disorder, what type it is (e.g., worry, compulsive