Quotes About Anxiety

I'm just afraid of having a tombstone that says HERE LIES A PROMISING OLD MAN.

She was terrified of everything, and terrified to show it.

I'm not afraid of new things. I'm just afraid of feeling alone even when there's somebody else there. I'm afraid of feeling bad. Maybe that's selfish, but it's the way I feel.

My chest bumps like a dryer with shoes in it. I compose what I project will be seen as a smile. I turn this way and that, slightly, sort of directing the expression to everyone in the room.

I felt the sort of soaring, ceilingless tedium that transcends tedium and becomes worry.

the people to be most frightened of are the people who are the most frightened.

the drowned panic of not being able to ask questions or have any input into what somebody's saying is so awful it sort of dwarfs the pain.

YES, I'M PARANOID—BUT AM I PARANOID ENOUGH?

You don't have to think very hard to realize that our dread of both relationships and loneliness … has to do with angst about death, the recognition that I'm going to die, and die very much alone, and the rest of the world is going to go merrily on without me.

Knowing that internal stress could cause failure on the exam merely set up internal stress about the prospect of internal stress.

The moment he recognized what exactly was on one cartridge he had a strong anxious feeling that there was something more entertaining on another cartridge and that he was potentially missing it. He realized that he would have plenty of time to enjoy all the cartridges, and realized intellectually that the feeling of deprived panic over missing something made no sense.

He cranks the condo's AC way down at night and still most mornings wakes up soaked, fetally curled, entombed in that kind of psychic darkness where you're dreading whatever you think of.

If I'm hanging out with you, I can't even tell whether I like you or not because I'm too worried about whether you like me.

He had never been so anxious for the arrival of a woman he did not want to see.

It's not desiring the fall; it's terror of the flames.

When you're meeting a whole lot of new people and having to do things you're in—I'm in a constant low-level state of anxiety. Which produces adrenaline, and kind of shuts down—there's a difference between short-term, people-based anxiety. And sort of deep, existential, you know, fear, that you feel all the way down to your butthole. And that, I, that's…that's what I'll have when I'm alone.

The mother at thirty with face commencing to display the faint seams of the plan for the second face life had in store for her and which she feared would be her own mother's

That the people to be most frightened of are the people who are the most frightened.

I think I was very often bored as a child, but boredom is not what I knew it as—what I knew was that I worried a lot

I wonder if anyone feels as though they're the same person they seem to remember. It would make them have a nervous breakdown. It probably wouldn't even make sense. I don't know if this is enough. I don't know what anybody else has told you.

I fear this feeling more than I fear anything, man. More than pain, or my mom dying, or environmental toxicity. Anything.

Once he'd been set off inside, it mattered so much that he was somehow afraid to show how much it mattered.

Hal loathes sky-and-cloud wallpaper because it makes him feel high-altitude and disoriented and sometimes plummeting.

I said I think I'm being followed.' 'Some men are born to lead, O.