Quotes About Anxiety

I'm flummoxed by this unraveling of time, I'm losing my grip on myself. I know that nothing awful will happen on the other side of the door. If anything, I'm about to have a perfectly forgettable day: a class to teach, a meeting with colleagues, maybe a movie. But I'm afraid of forgetting something crucial—my cell phone or my identity card, my health insurance or my keys. And I'm afraid of running into trouble.

Havia a ansiedade de que uum dia não se sucedesse ao outro, junto com a certeza de que certamente se sucederia. Era como prender a respiração, como Udayan tentara fazer na baixada. E, no entanto, de alguma maneira ela estava respirando. Assim como o tempo ficava parado, mas também passava, alguma outra parte de seu corpo que lhe era inconsciente estava agora extraindo oxigêncio, obrigando-os a continuar.

I've come to look upon death the same way I look upon root-canal work. Everyone else seems to get through it all right, so it couldn't be too difficult for me.

There are people in England that claim benefits because they are too nervous to work, so they claim their benefits for anxiety and never have to go out side there free home.

A lot of my work comes from a place of despair or fear. I often write in order to gain some sort of control over aspects of my life or the world that seem too dark to look at directly.

Artists themselves are neurotic and fearful people, and you can look at their work and figure out what they're scared of.

I hope each day to have done 10 seconds of good work that they can use in the film. And Im always afraid I didnt get those 10 seconds.

What turns a work crisis into a life crisis is the infusion of dread.

I'm always pretty tense about everything when it comes to work.

You didn't have to work to keep your fear up, your energy up, or your anxiety. It is all kind of built into the process.

You can be afraid in a press conference, nervous, sweaty, but you can't be afraid when you do your work because it doesn't work that way.

I think the hardest thing about being an actor is between jobs when you don't know and wondering if you'll ever work again. It's kind of a crazy business.

I can only be so long without work before I start getting antsy.

It's hard to do things like auditions, because you don't want to put weeks of work into just an audition.

My biggest vulnerability now is my son, Hudson. I am often plagued with fear: Is he ok? Is he safe? I'm in the process of trying to work through this fear. It's a hard one.

Half the world's work is done by hopeless neurotics.

Work is a form of nervousness.

More men die of worry than of work, because more men worry than work.

I'm not happy on vacation. In those rare times when I have three hours with no work I have to do, I'm terribly uncomfortable.

It is no use. I find it impossible to work with security staring me in the face.

Stress and anxiety at work have less to do with the work we do and more to do with weak management and leadership.

The computer is down. I hope it's something serious.

All office workers are afraid of being late for work.

I've been on antidepressants for years, and it worked to stop my anxiety and didn't limit creativity. Some of the best work I've done, in fact, is after I started taking the antidepressants.