Quotes About Anxiety

My ability to turn good news into anxiety is rivaled only by my ability to turn anxiety into chin acne.

Well, the thing is, I actually have a fear of horses, so I wouldnt make a very good cowboy.

The fact is that blank pages inspire me with terror. What will I put on them? Will it be good enough? Will I have to throw it out?

Some people go to bed at night thinking, 'That was a good day.' I am one of those who worries and asks, 'How did I screw up today?'

Anything that begins 'I don't know how to tell you this' is never good news.

..we are trained as children to get good grades, get a good job, get a good spouse, get children, get ahead. In all this getting we get something else: anxiety and depression.

Getting on stage and performing and standing under lights is such an unsettling experience - in a good and bad way - but it's the only place I can go to feel comfortable.

Most good thinking has its origin in fear.

Fear of feeling bad rarely makes one feel good.

I really don't feel good about leaving my house anymore. I don't feel really good about being anywhere in New York City alone anymore.

Twitter is not a good place for people who feel they're being followed.

Success is so fleeting, even if you get a good book deal or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: What about the next one?

It's what I call the haute couture, high-end version of fear perfectionism. It's just fear in really good shoes. But it's still fear.

The bad times I can handle. It's the good times that drive me crazy. When is the other shoe going going to drop?

When you're a parent, you're just like, God, I hope they like me when they grow up. I hope that I did a good job. I hope they're gonna be happy.

Fear has never helped anybody make good choices. It leads to clinging when we should be walking.

You have to control the nerves. I used to get so nervous that I couldn't eat, which wasn't really productive. Having goals and a plan is a good way of lessening the nerves.

Remember the good old days when the only bomb you had to worry about on a plane was the Rob Schneider movie?

My brief flash of relief and confidence melted away. Good thing it did, too. I'm sure the world would come to an end if I were allowed to feel a sense of relief and well-being for any length of time.

I'm not good at keeping secrets. If I'm entrusted with a secret from a friend, I can do that because I'm a good friend, but I don't like having secrets, it makes me nervous.

I knew that the moment I started worrying about whether or not I was good enough for the job, I wouldn't be able to do it.

I'm always very scared when I start a movie because I never know if I'm going to be able to do a good job or do a very bad job.

I'm not a very good financing person. I don't even know how much money I have in my bank account. I never have opened one single envelope from the bank - they freak me out.

I don't think I've ever been particularly scared of death - but scared of dying, the process. It doesn't seem to be a good way of doing it.