Quotes About Anxiety

Anxiety is not provoked: it tries to find a justification for itself, and in order to do so seizes upon anything, the vilest pretexts, to which it clings once it has invented them.

I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I'm really scared of being alone because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman.

Despite being in her mid-20s she only passed her test a few months ago and is still a nervous driver,

two.' I can't bear the thought of being away from him for that long; he's the anchor to my boat and I worry that I will float out to sea, directionless, without him.

Once aware of my isolation, I was afraid not of it but of its interruption.

He then fell into the state of apprehension and despondency usual to writers as they wait for a verdict on their work.

Putting up with" means withdrawing from panic in panic; adding panic to panic, hoping that panic will go quickly and not come back; it means avoiding people and places that bring on panic so that one's horizon becomes narrower and narrower until it is finally bounded by the front gate; it means always keeping the way open for quick retreat; it means expecting retreat. It means continued illness.

The great majority of my nervously ill patients have been made ill and kept ill because of the way they feel; because of fear of what they think may happen next.

In other words, long, anxious brooding on any difficult life situation may gradually bring sensitization.

When a person is constantly sensitized and afraid of the state he is in, we say he is nervously ill.

Sensitization alone is not enough, because without fear a body will quickly repair its sensitized state.

I cannot give a single concert at which I do not play one piece after the other in an agony of terror because my memory threatens to fail me. This fear torments me for days beforehand.

Estou tão assustada que só poderei aceitar que me perdi se imaginar que alguém me está dando a mão.

And my fear, too, was different now: not the fear of someone who is still about to go in but the so much greater fear of someone who has gone in.

Es como unas ganas de respirar fuerte, y también el miedo

Lo único que estropea la felicidad es el miedo

Should I say that she was crazy about soldiers? Well she was. Whenever she saw one, she thought with a shiver of pleasure: is he going to kill me?

How do I explain that my greatest fear is precisely in relation to ... to being?" (5)

Qué soy? Soy: estar de pie ante un espanto. Soy: lo que he visto. No entiendo y temo entender, la materia del mundo me espanta, con sus planetas y sus cucarachas

Every idea that occurred to him, because he became familiar with it in seconds, came with the fear of having stolen it.

Como se explica que o meu maior medo seja exatamente o de ir vivendo o que for sendo?

No soporté más y estoy confensando que ya sabía una verdad que nunca tuvo utilidad y aplicación, y que tendría miedo de aplicar, pues no soy lo bastante adulta para saber usar una verdad sin destruirme.

Medo de não amar, pior do que o medo de não ser amado.

I am afraid to be who I am. There is a total silence within me. I get scared.