Quotes About Anxiety

A counselor once told me the need to control is really about perfectionism and the inability to accept uncertainty. Do you agree with that?

Putting the mind to a task diluted the power of worry.

the need to control is really about perfectionism and the inability to accept uncertainty.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts. Perhaps the fear of a loss of power." —John Steinbeck

Maybe it's true that if we do give in to worrying about what might happen, it's almost as if it has. We live the fear in our minds.

I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.

We make an idol of our fear and that idol we call God.

A tudás több választási lehet?séget ad, és több szorongást.

We walk in circles, so limited by our own anxieties that we can no longer distinguish between true and false, between the gangster's whim and the purest ideal

Computers will be the death of us all.

worry doesn't change tomorrow, it only robs today of its joy.

I don't want to work, but I have buoys of cork in my stomach. They won't let me go down, will they?

I was anti-everything and everyone. I didn't want people around me. This aversion was not some big crippling anxiety; merely a mature recognition of my own psychological vulnerability and my lack of suitability as a companion. Thoughts jostled for space in my crowded brain as i struggled to give them some order which might serve to motivate my listless life.

Buildings will collapse, power plants will stop generating electricity. Generals will drop atomic bombs on their own populations. Mad revolutionaries will run in the streets, crying fantastic slogans. I have often thought it would begin in New York. This metropolis has all the symptoms of a mind gone berserk.

If I write something, I fear it will happen, and if I love too much, I fear I will lose that person; nevertheless, I cannot stop writing or loving...

Fear stalks the land. (As usual; so what else is new?)

Absolute power is universally coveted, though all know that an absolute ruler has an anxious life and usually a violent death.

The novels I prefer, are those that make you feel uneasy from the very first page.

Though I leave the house as little as possible, I have the impression that someone is disturbing my papers. More than once I have discovered that some pages were missing from my manuscripts. A few days afterward I would find the pages in their place again. But often I no longer recognize my manuscripts, as if I had forgotten what I had written, or as if overnight I were so changed that no longer recognized myself in the self of yesterday.

Everything in the garden was like that: lovely but impossible to enjoy properly, with that worrying feeling inside that they were only there through an odd stroke of luck, and the fear that they'd soon have to give an account of themselves.

This thought has always filled me with terror: that I might be one of those people, that I might be only one of those people.

And every time, he concentrates on the query of the latest interlocutor, his eyes staring, his chin quivering, his neck twisting in an effort to keep pending and in plain view all the other unresolved queries, with the mournful patience of overnervous people and the ultrasonic nervousness of overpatient people.

Vorsicht! Vorsicht! Ora casca, poverino! - esclamò piena d'ansia nostra madre, che ci avrebbe visto volentieri alla carica sotto le cannonate, ma intanto stava in pena per ogni nostro gioco.

Wherever the shadow of economic growth touches us, we are left useless unless employed on a job or engaged in consumption...We lose sight of our resources, lose control over the environmental conditions which make these resources applicable, lose taste for self-reliant coping with challenges from without and anxiety from within.