Quotes About Anxiety

It is tomorrow that fills men with dread. God is there already. All the tomorrows of our life have to pass Him before they can get to us. F. B. M.

Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but simply taking God at His word. Christmas Evans The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety. George Mueller

If you feel like you're in control of everything, and then things aren't going well, you feel like you're failing.

Quentin was thin and tall, though he habitually hunched his shoulders in a vain attempt to brace himself against whatever blow was coming from the heavens, and which would logically hit the tall people first.

infinite corridor of panic that led nowhere.

he habitually hunched his shoulders in a vain attempt to brace himself against whatever blow was coming from the heavens, and which would logically hit the tall people first.

Chop chop. I'm literally losing the will to live." —Eliot

He felt like in gym class trying to look like part of the team while at the same desperately hoping nobody would pass him the ball.

His mind was an icy pond constantly in danger of thawing. He trod on it only lightly-its surface was perilously slick and who knew how thin. To break through would mean immersion in what was below: cold, dark anaerobic water and angry, toothy fish. The fish were memories. He wanted to put them away somewhere and forget where he'd put them, but he couldn't.

Suspense is torture ... but delightful--or there'd be no gambling in the world.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

In the strictest sense, anxiety is not a problem at all, but a sign that we are in touch with our intuitive powers. In previous chapters we saw how the discipline of any judgmental or deceptive

A personal over-concentration upon power as an end in itself is always suspect to the psychologist: he reads into it an attempt to conceal inferiority, impotence, anxiety. When this tendency is combined with inordinate ambitions, uncontrolled hostility and suspicion, and a loss of any sense of the subject's own limitations, leading to 'delusions of grandeur,' this becomes the typical syndrome of paranoia: one of the most difficult psychological states to exorcise.

We live in a vacuous world, yet we do so with a feeling of urgency.

Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future.

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

Lemon curd is one of the first things I remember cooking when I was old enough to use the stove without supervision. I looked up a recipe in my one of my mom's Martha Stewart cookbooks and went to work, stirring anxiously and monitoring closely for signs that the mixture was thickening so as not to curdle the eggs.

I used to have a spider phobia, but I'm pretty fearless now.

I used to have nightmares that they would put 'He played Ted' on my tombstone.

I used to be really anxious about money. I got that from my parents. I still am, but for entirely different reasons.

I used to get so nervous and upset at stuff... I'd always be angry.

Stuff used to get me really crazy, touring stuff. I used to hide. I hid from everybody. Back in '87, when things were so hectic, I'd run away. There was so much pressure.

People who are in a position of finding out that they're at risk for some illness, whether it's breast cancer, or heart disease, are afraid to get that information - even though it might be useful to them - because of fears that they'll lose their health insurance or their job.

I think because my parents died in their early 50s, mid 50s, I always thought I would die young. And that's been both a useful thing and I suspect something that's haunted me a little bit.