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Quotes About Anxiety

I don't want to fall. All I want to do is stand on solid ground.
~ David Levithan
incessant , adj . The doubts. You had to save me from my constant doubts. That deep-seeded feeling that I wasn't good enough for anything I was a fake at my job I wasn't your equal my friends would forget me if I moved away for a month. It wasn't as easy as hearing voices nobody was telling me this. It was just something I knew. Everyone else was playing along but I was sure that one day they would all stop.
~ David Levithan
Breathing, n You had asthma as a child, had to carry around an inhaler. But when you grew older, it went away. You could run for miles and it was fine. Sometimes I worry that this is happening to me in reverse. The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe.
~ David Levithan
I'm always standing on the edge of something bad.
~ David Levithan
If I lose it now, I will lose you, too. I know that. I hate it.
~ David Levithan
But I guess the thing about fear is that it defies the laws of rationality. It creates its own laws instead.
~ David Levithan
I am shy. Sometimes painfully shy. And it's especially painful when someone reminds me about it.
~ David Levithan
I know everything is about to change, and I fear that one day I will long for this minute before anything is said, that I will want to travel back in time and undo what's coming next.
~ David Levithan
I don't want to throw everything away for something uncertain.
~ David Levithan
sweaty palms. check. shaky bones. check. the feeling that all oxygen in the air has been replaced by helium. yup.
~ David Levithan
While nobody wants to say how bad it is, there's no way to pretend it's a normal day.
~ David Levithan
I feel like the mutant among the mutants. Like the boy who showed up at Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters and found out that, whoops, he didn't have any superpowers at all. I'm so tired of being uncool. You can dress me up, give me a cool boyfriend, even laugh at one of my jokes every now and then — but the anxiety always gives it away.
~ David Levithan
I am not ready to see what happens next. Because it's possible that nothing will happen, and that might break me.
~ David Levithan
I was still scared by every gap in our conversation, fearing that this was it, the point where we had nothing left to say.
~ David Levithan
I was still thinking he might come after me. Even after he left.
~ David Levithan
i worry about you and i tell him don't and he says that's exactly why
~ David Levithan
Bur I guess the thing about fear is that it defies the laws of rationality. It creates its own laws instead.
~ David Levithan
the thing about fear is that it defies the laws of rationality. It creates its own laws instead
~ David Levithan
The pink-haired boy is scared, so incredibly scared - only the thing you've most wished for can scare you in that way.
~ David Levithan
and i'm thinking, aren't i supposed to be the one who's freaking out here? tiny is going to be the first b-b-b- (i can't do it) boy-f-f-f (c'mon, will) boyf-boyf (here we go) boyfriend of mine that she's ever met.
~ David Levithan
once again I think about how people use the devil as an alias for the things they fear.
~ David Levithan
School is school- she wants it to be over, but she's afraid of it being over, because then she'll have to figure out what comes next.
~ David Levithan
Do you think that every single thing that happens in high school can be categorized as either gossip or stress?
~ David Levithan
That dehumanizing loss of safety. It is something all of us feared and many of us knew firsthand.
~ David Levithan