Quotes About Anxiety

We're all sick of holy wars and bloodshed because religion is supposed to give us life and a better life and is supposed to bring out our best self. When it results in mass destruction and hatred and anxiety, it's the antithesis I think of what religion was designed to do.

The dreaded November 18, 2048, at around 2:47 PM Eastern Time, plus or minus a few minutes, is when we go Boom.

The one quality which counters against longevity is neuroticism. Neuroticism is usually defined as an extra susceptibility to anger, sadness, fear and guilt – all of which can lead to anxiety, hostility, self- consciousness and depression – and there seems no doubt that these are unhealthy personality traits.

The human body has not had time to adapt to the demands of the new world and nor has it had time to learn to differentiate between situations which are genuinely threatening and which require a physical response and situations which are simply worrying and for which a physical response would probably be harmful.

Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.

I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.

Worries are the most stubborn habits in the world. Even after a poor man has won a huge lottery prize, he will still for months wake up in the night with a start, worrying about food and rent.

Maybe your nerves aren't as frayed as ours.

That was life, wasn't it? You spend so much of it trying to find happiness, and then when you get some, you worry every day something is going to take it away.

It ain't brave if you ain't scared.

I only have the quite childish horror of the grave and of nothingness

Erchov atteignait le sommet de sa vie et il avait peur

When a criminal is rattled what does he do? He starts making mistakes.

It wasn't as if she was terrified of heights, she simply preferred to be closer to solid ground, where words like plummet and plunge did not linger in her mind.

Cordelia glared at me. 'I expect if someone strapped you to table an swung an axe over your naked quivering flesh like The Pit and the Pendulum, you'd be correcting his grammar'.

Taking photographs can assuage the itch for possession sparked by the beauty of a place; our anxiety over losing a precious scene can decline with every click of the shutter.

Finishing is torture... There's always some newly seen flaw. But the little glimpses of beauty between the anxiety make it worth it.

This was why Kiki had dreaded having girls: she knew she wouldn't be able to protect them from self-disgust.

Laughter is the best way to release tensions and fears.

My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

Worrying about tomorrow is the best way to screw up today.

The best way to confront your fears it to stop avoiding the situation you're most afraid of.

Actually, my worst nightmare is losing my best friend, as I imagine most people's are.

If you're extremely, painfully frightened of age, it shows.