Quotes About Anxiety

What ruins happiness is fear

Siento que no puedo parar y me asusto. Procuro distraerme del miedo. Pero ya hace mucho que pararon los golpes reales, estoy sintiendo el incesante redoblar en mí.

I become so scared when I realize that over a period of hours I lost my human constitution. I don't know if I'll have another one to replace the lost one with. I know that I'll need to take care not to surreptitiously use a new third leg that can grow back in me as easily as a weed, and then call that protective leg "a truth".

Yo hago aquí el papel para ustedes de una válvula de escape de la vida aniquiladora de la burguesía de clase media. Sé que da miedo salir de uno mismo, pero todo lo que es nuevo asusta. Aunque la muchacha anónima de la historia sea tan antigua que podría ser una figura bíblica. Ella era subterránea y nunca había florecido. Miento: ella era hierba.

No one but myself knows the anxiety I go through and the trouble I give myself…

There's a kind of terrible stress that makes you eat three pieces of coconut cake, but there's an even more terrible kind of stress where you can't bear the thought of eating anything at all" -Autumn

Another person's body, sometimes, can be terrifying.

That was the way with Man; it had always been that way. He had carried terror with him. And the thing he was afraid of had always been himself.

Those who live in fear of failure slowly but inevitably fail.

Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.

He often talked to himself when he was overwhelmed with fear. He saw it as a more dignified reaction than wetting himself. And

It is strange to relate (for a man in his profession) that in addition to incurable acrophobia, arachnophobia, myophobia, and ornithophobia, Morse also suffered from necrophobia; and had he known what awaited him now, it is doubtful whether he would have dared to view the horridly disfigured corpse at all.

I feel restless, and something seems to weigh me down.

Expectancy of anything is always oppressive. When

Angst macht süchtig nach Strafrecht.

Ik word verteerd door levenstwijfel omdat ik niet zou weten waarover je anders moet twijfelen dan over het leven en ik word verteerd door doodsverachting omdat ik niet weet wat je anders zou moeten verachten dan de dood.

Sleeplessness kept claiming her nights, and she used books as shields against the onslaught of her abstract terrors.

Finding bliss becomes one with the fear of losing it.

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.

In this county, we had to walk, eat, sleep and love in fear.

We laughed a lot, to hide it from each other. But fear always finds an out. If you control your face, it slips into your voice. If you manage to keep a grip on your face and your voice, as if they were dead wood, it will slip out through your fingers. It will pass through your skin and lie there. You can see it lying around on objects close by.

A noi si addice la paura della tenerezza

Man hat es leichter, wenn man selber weg muß, die Angst wegträgt, und das Glück da läßt, und vom anderen erwartet wird. Zu Hause sitzen und warten dehnt die Zeit zum Zerreißen und treibt die Angst auf die Spitze.

Es ist gar keine Katze, sagte ich mir, nur die Verpelzung der graugestreiften Langeweile, die Geduld der Angst in einer schmalen Straße.