Quotes About Anxiety

A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

For as children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.

the reality of fear: your not afraid of the dark, your afraid of what's in it. your not afraid of heights, your afraid of falling. your not afraid of the people around you, your afraid of what they might think. your not afraid to love, your afraid of love not coming back. your not afraid to try again, your afraid of getting hurt for the same reason.

All along, she had given him the sort of On-Off treatment scientists use to drive rats insane. In humans, this merely leads to a state of high anxiety. She was a mystery to him. A mystery banana.

Leaving Wychwood gave him, as it did each time, the mingled anxiety and exhilaration of a rebirth. Womb-warm and sequestered, it was at once a sanctuary and a place of internment.

It only seems as if you are doing something when you're worrying.

Sometimes you can dread something so much that when it actually happens, you can't help but laugh because you realize that you totally blew it out of proportion, and it's not nearly as bad as you thought it would be.

You can be strapped to the most stable chair and still feel the world give way beneath you.

Not knowing, he said, is a thousand times more horrible than facing your fear.

Love isn't what you expect it to be. You imagine being drunk on happiness, but the truth is, you worry all the time. Is she ill? Hurt? Might she meet someone else? There's a moment when you realize you've gotten everything you wished for. And right on its heels is the understanding that this means you have so much more to lose.

oh shit, i think. my cheeks are on fire; my heart starts to pound.

My biggest hope for Jacob is that moments like this won't happen. My biggest fear: that they will, and I won't always be there to keep people from thinking the worst of him.

See, I get a round, hollow spot in my belly knowing I could tell him what's coming, but also knowing it would come out sounding like a warning.

Her voice sounded like a string that was fraying.

How can you enjoy life if you spend every minute fearing the end of it?

Lately I've been having nightmares, where I'm cut into so many pieces that there isn't enough of me to be put back together.

back. So why am I so worried about making a first impression? I answer my own question: Because you only get to do it once. Every time after, you are only making up for what happened during that initial meeting.

You don't borrow trouble.

Parenthood was like awakening to find a soap bubble in the cup of your palm, and being told you had to carry it while you parachuted from a dizzying height, climbed a mountain range, battled on the front lines. All you wanted to do was tuck it away, safe from natural disasters and violence and prejudice and sarcasm, but that was not an option. You lived in daily fear of watching it burst, of breaking it yourself. Somehow

Lately, I have been having nightmares, where I'm cut into so many pieces that there isn't enough of me to be put back together.

Even the smartest person in the world could be scared by what he did or did not understand.

All mothers worry, but Black mothers, we have to worry a little bit more. "Even walking can be dangerous. Just being can be dangerous, if you are in the wrong place at the wrong time.

I'm screwed, Eric repeats, and shakes his head. I have to go. Take care of her, okay? He gives Delia to me as if she were a jewel to be smuggled, a prayer to be whispered between heretics. A pawn. Eric is halfway across the parking lot by the time I answer. I always do, I say.

I can't believe you're making jokes while I'm freaking out.