Quotes About Anxiety

Facing the edge is acknowledging whatever conflict, doubt, frustration, or anxiety that ate at my day and then naming it in a realized prayer, not a pushed-aside hassle. Facing the edge is gleaning the good while placing the not-so-good into God's hands.

Why had they taken her car?

Fear and a secret are two different things," I remind him, pointing out the difference in the two phrases.  "Often they come together. A secret that leads to fear in one way, shape, or form.

I trust this woman more than I trust myself right now. And that scares me in a way I haven't been scared in a very long time.

It's Tuesday. Friday night is forever away when my brother's missing and that violin is absolutely what my brother was after.

I've read that one out of twenty-four people is a sociopath, and if you ask me, the other twenty-three of you should be worried.

Your typical suburban mom worries all the time, but she worries about the wrong things

You know it's going to be a bad day when you can't get privacy inside your own head.

I wouldn't be comfortable, but at least I'd have marginal protection against pointy steel objects that went stab in the night.

never have chosen to have a panic attack on that ordinary morning, riding the elevator up to his office. He certainly wouldn't have chosen the breakdown that followed: the nine days during which he couldn't think of going anywhere without having the panic start all over again.

Don't borrow trouble from round the bend,

The depth of my love for him, of my need for him poured over me, both painful and sweet, both comforting and frightening. If anything happened to him, I didn't know how I would keep going.

I live too often in the realm of what if. I also expend time and mental energy continually trying to anticipate what sort of crouching tiger might be hiding around the next corner.

You can't solve anything by worrying ahead of yourself.

Jasmine sat on her bed, worrying her bottom lip as she listened to the phone ring. Damn it, where the hell was Stephanie? Obviously not answering her cell phone, that was for sure. When the voicemail kicked in Jasmine fidgeted as she waited for the beep to finally arrive. "How dare you have a life and not be around to answer the phone when I need to talk to you. Call me.

The regrets of yesterday and the fear of tomorrow can kill you.

This is what it feels like to love someone. The fear that they could be harmed and you'd be helpless keeps you up at night. It's a rift in your logic. It turns you from sensible into someone who's inside out.

I'll never have a baby because I'm afraid I'll leave it on top of my car.

If a man harbors any sort of fear, it makes him landlord to a ghost.

If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all thinking, damages his personality and makes him a landlord to a ghost.

I froze like a startled bunny. Fumbling the disk into my purse, I cut my eyes toward the hallway. Had I locked the front door? Of course I had. Only a moron would break into someone's house and forget to lock the door. Damn it! I'd forgotten to lock the door.

Seems like half my anxiety dreams are about airports.

Chaque matin, je me dégage des bras enchanteurs de Morphée, pétrifiée à l'idée de ces heures interminables qui s'égrèneront lentement jusqu'à ce que je puisse me replonger dans l'oubli bienfaisant d'un nouveau sommeil.

I'm scared of you two in the same place. That's like putting in an order for trouble, rather than just wishing for it.