Quotes About Anxiety

I'm feeling a lot of pressure because it is first time for me to cast as the main character.

I'm not very good at making decisions.

I'm the worst at making decisions!

I was just making movies to make movies. I was so full of anxiety about becoming a filmmaker that I kind of lost the idea of why I was doing it.

Sometimes when I'm watching managers on television and I see all that anxiety I realise that I don't miss the job as much as I thought.

On the night before we were married, all of the anxiety in the world came down upon me.

I am scared when I hear the word 'marriage' but I cannot say to my family that I don't want to marry at all.

Not likely!" Howl yelled. "I'm a coward. Only way I can do something this frightening is to tell my self I'm not doing it!

I'm a coward. Only way I can do something this frighteningly is to tell myself I'm not doing it!

I'm a coward. Only way I can do something this frightening is to tell myself I'm not doing it!

I was moving in a narrow range between busy distractedness and a pervasive sadness whose granules seemed to enter each cell, weighing it down... I ghosted between islands of anxiety... a fatigue that dulled my zest, decanted it. Sorrow felt like a marble coat I couldn't shed.

As fleeting emotions stalk it, a face can leak fear or the guilt of a forming lie.

Sometimes with a flutter of agitated worry that felt like a beetle was trapped inside my ribs. p. 90

Every day our life was full of thoughts of the horrible present, and even our own death.

But, without meaning to exactly, one still tends to conjure up scary scenarios, their pathos or salvation, as if one could endure a trauma before it occurred, in small manageable doses, as a sort of inoculation. Are there homeopathic degrees of anguish?

She could not read a book for fear of the feelings she might find in it.

What is it that allows human beings to see through each other's pretendings? For I understood quite clearly in that moment that she was anxious. Perhaps emotions have a smell or a taste; perhaps we transmit them unknowingly by vibrations in the air. Whatever the means, I knew just as surely that it was nothing about me in particular that alarmed her, but only the fact that I had come and was a stranger.

You can't live when you're afraid of daying.

Everyone creates what he fears.

Gawd, he thought furiously, he hadn't expected it to be like this. Just a lousy walk down the yard to give a carrot to the gangly chestnut. Guilt and fear and treachery. They bypassed his sneering mind and erupted through his nerves instead.

ones. I could see that I would be inevitably eased out, and not by doubt but by concern.

I was someone who lived in anxiety. I felt anxiety was part of being conscious in the world; it was a prerequisite of a moral and ethical life. I don't mean the anxieties of Capital, I mean the anxieties of an unfinished world, the unfinished projects of the imagination, as Wilson Harris would put it.

There are people with their hands in their hair, holding in their brains.

Doesn't our knowledge of death make life more precious?' What good is a preciousness based on fear and anxiety? It's an anxious quivering thing