Quotes About Anxiety

Genetic variability evolves over many millennia, yet we know that the rates of anxiety disorders have skyrocketed in just the last century, not to mention the last decade. I believe this has to do partly with changes in lifestyle, diet, sleep and work patterns, and especially our relationship with stress. Our world is unquestionably complex

This book focuses on ways to create innate health and resilience as a key to resolving anxiety in everyday life

Anxiety disorders are easily the most common mental illnesses, affecting nearly one in five adult Americans in any given year and 30 percent of people

No acquisitions of guilt can compensate the loss of that solid inward comfort of mind, which is the sure companion of innocence and virtue; nor can in the least balance the evil of that horror and anxiety which, in their room, guilt introduces into our bosoms.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

wealth so abundant that there would be no cause for that harassing fear that sometimes paralyses even those who are not considered the poor, the fear that every man of us has probably felt, that if sickness should smite him, or if he should be taken away, those whom he loves better than his life would become charges upon charity.

People are afraid, and when people are afraid, when their pie is shrinking, they look for somebody to hate. They look for somebody to blame. And a real leader speaks to anxiety and to fear and allays those fears, assuages anxiety.

Anxiety might be contagious, but confidence is also contagious

Angor animi - the sense of being in the act of dying, differing from the fear of death or the desire for death.

Anxious and angry relatives are a burden all doctors must bear, but having been one myself was an important part of my medical education.

Starting on time, with everything just right, and the surgical drapes placed in exactly the right way, the instruments tidily laid out, is an important way of calming surgical stage fright.

ANGOR ANIMI n. the sense of being in the act of dying, differing from the fear of death or the desire for death.

My wife and I spent the next few weeks in that strange world one enters when you fear for your child's life – the outside world, the real world, becomes a ghost world, and the people in it remote and indistinct. The only reality is intense fear, a fear driven by helpless, overwhelming love.

I see walking bombs on the street Hearts not beating, but ticking

Keep me preoccupied Keep me busy, busy, busy So I won't have to think I don't want to think Because it only brings me pain I keep running away from my problems Keep me busy Give me a million things to do So I can keep running away

Time is: Too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear.

It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade.

It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is the rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution which destroys the machinery but the friction. Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices

A man that is afraid is never a man.

It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices.

Anxiously, he touched the lump on his head again, then felt his injured leg, groaning. "The whole affair is a mystery to me," he said. "Who would want to steal anything from me?" "Perhaps a thief...?" ventured Julius.

There lay between them, separating them, that same terrible line of the unknown and of fear, like the line separating the living from the dead.