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Quotes About Anxiety

I can work myself up into a fearful, paralyzing state of mind that can last for days, weeks even months where I feel mad, totally isolated and alone, overwhelmed and completely out of control.
~ Vinny Guadagnino
My case is not unique: I am afraid of dying and distressed at being in the world.
~ Violette Leduc
Le atemorizaban las presencias porque podían fundirse en ausencia
~ Violette Leduc
Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.
~ Virgil
Mine are the deep-seated fears established when we are children, and they never quite go away: the fear of being helpless, the fear of being trapped, the fear of being out of control.
~ Virginia C. Andrews
You know how you want something so much and you're afraid of it too?
~ Virginia Euwer Wolff
can trust God so easily with one thing, but five minutes later something else has me anxious and worried. I've learned I have to ask myself in every situation if I believe God loves me. If the answer is yes, then I have to choose to trust him. It's a daily decision.
~ Unknown
there is nothing wrong with fear." "Not as long as you don't let it stop you,
~ Unknown
The collective body functions in the same way as the individual body: if the system is over-anxious, it spontaneously gives rise to self-destructive patterns.
~ Virginie Despentes
Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.
~ Vita Sackville-West
The time for hope is gone, and come for fear.
~ Vittorio Alfieri
Los motivos de crítica o de rechazo de la fe se presentan siempre, obviamente, como algo objetivo, cuando -para quien conoce los intríngulis del corazón humano- son demasiado a menudo el grito ansioso de la subjetividad de personas que sufren.
~ Unknown
Each child wants to know immediately if he is a worthy person in your eyes. You cannot pretend, because the child knows all the things about himself that worry him. If you act like you like him, but ignore the things he is anxious about, it doesn't count. The child is glad you are nice to him, but deep down he figures if you really knew what he was like, you'd hate him. So your liking him without knowing him just makes him feel guilty.
~ Unknown
Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.
~ Vivien Leigh
The truck growled and roared and I was pretty sure it was going to eat me.
~ W. Bruce Cameron
I was terrified. Especially because of the kids. It's such a big responsibility to take other people's children out in public these days. Who can tell what terrible thing will happen?
~ Unknown
In the nightmare of the darkAll the dogs of Europe bark.
~ W. H. Auden
Horror lets us know that how we expected the world to act has been indefinitely cancelled.
~ Unknown
There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one's means of livelihood…. Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
Life wouldn't be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
It is said that in breathing man recapitulates the rhythm of the universe. When the mind is fastened to the rhythm of breathing, it tends to become absorbed and calm. Whether on or off the court, I know of no better way to begin to deal with anxiety than to place the mind on one's breathing process.
~ W. Timothy Gallwey
Anxiety is fear about what may happen in the future, and it occurs only when the mind is imagining what the future may bring. But when your attention is on the here and now, the actions which need to be done in the present have their best chance of being successfully accomplished, and as a result the future will become the best possible present. So
~ W. Timothy Gallwey
Fear, which is probably the biggest obstacle to any learning process, is a repressive force. It exists in the mind, and almost always it is based on something that might happen in the future, rather than what is happening now. As
~ W. Timothy Gallwey
He is the Way. Follow Him through the Land of Unlikeness; You will see rare beasts, and have unique adventures. He is the Truth. Seek Him in the Kingdom of Anxiety; You will come to a great city that has expected your return for years. He is the Life. Love Him in the World of the Flesh; And at your marriage all its occasions shall dance for joy.
~ W.H. Auden