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Quotes About Anxiety

expectant. My chest bumps like a dryer with shoes in it. I compose what I project will be seen as a
~ David Foster Wallace
In short that 99% of the head's thinking activity consists of trying to scare the everliving shit out of itself.
~ David Foster Wallace
I'm just afraid of having a tombstone that says HERE LIES A PROMISING OLD MAN.
~ David Foster Wallace
It's like he's frozen on this anxiety, unable to move on to more advanced anxieties.
~ David Foster Wallace
Manhãs de escala são um momento especial para o semiagorafóbico, porque quase todo mundo deixa o navio e vai para a terra firme participar de Passeios Organizados ou fazer turismo peripatético espontâneo e os conveses superiores da e.m. Nadir assumem a mesma qualidade fantasmagórica e misteriosa da sua casa quando você é criança, adoece e fica em casa quando todo mundo saiu para o trabalho ou a escola etc.
~ David Foster Wallace
Nel momento in cui riconosceva quello che c'era su una cartuccia provava la sensazione carica d'ansia che ci fosse qualcosa di meglio su un'altra cartuccia e che potenzialmente se lo stava perdendo. Poi si rese conto che avrebbe avuto tutto il tempo di godersi ogni cartuccia e capì intellettualmente che non aveva senso provare il panico di perdersi qualcosa.
~ David Foster Wallace
The nameless anxiety of the dream is indescribably horrid - the wide, Jeni, feels she simply must (wiper) must (wiper) must catch the husband's car in order to avert some kind of crisis so horrible it has no name.
~ David Foster Wallace
right before he'd mailed her child an expensive toy and then had his phone number changed, he'd awakened from a night of horror-show
~ David Foster Wallace
It occurs to me that neither my aunt nor my uncle has once asked what happened to the pretty little thing that came visiting with us last time we were up, and I wonder what my mother has said to my aunt. I begin to be anxious about something I can neither locate nor define.
~ David Foster Wallace
It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase. It just did it way more well than wisely
~ David Foster Wallace
My aunt asks again if I'm sure it's no problem and I don't answer because I'm afraid of how my voice will sound.
~ David Foster Wallace
well-trained viewer becomes even more allergic to people. Lonelier. Joe B.'s exhaustive TV-training in how to worry about how he might come across, seem to watching eyes, makes genuine human encounters even scarier.
~ David Foster Wallace
Fear is the key to human nature.
~ Unknown
La gente è sempre in ansia. Puoi tenere in pugno chi vuoi, se scopri di cosa ha paura.
~ Unknown
He trembled with his head hung low.
~ William Morris
Conscience doth make cowards of us all.
~ William Shakespeare
In time we hate that which we often fear.
~ William Shakespeare
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; The thief doth fear each bush an officer.
~ William Shakespeare
Life... is a paradise to what we fear of death.
~ William Shakespeare
Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; Where little fears grow great, great love grows there.
~ William Shakespeare
Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.
~ William Shakespeare
I have almost forgotten the taste of fears: The time has been, my senses would have cool'd to hear a night-shriek; and my fell of hair would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir as life were in't: I have supt full with horrors; Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, cannot once start me.
~ William Shakespeare
Oh, God! I have an ill-divining soul!
~ William Shakespeare
To be poor but content is actually to be quite rich. But you can have endless riches and still be as poor as anyone if you are always afraid of losing your riches.
~ William Shakespeare