Quotes About Anxiety

Ignatius spent the day in his room napping fitfully and attacking his rubber glove during his frequent, anxious moments of consciousness.

Have you ever been so scared of something you move toward it, try to touch it, that kind of thing?

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. BERTRAND RUSSELL

What worries you masters you.

Uncertainty follows distrust, fear follows uncertainty, and, under conditions such as these, terror follows fear.

conditions such as these, terror follows fear.

I've never done acid, finding it hard to go willingly to a place that could be frightening, hellish, and totally beyond my control. A place much like high school.

The best I could say about third grade was that it was a more or less continuous state of dread.

Any time I got in emotional turmoil, I felt sick all the time, like at any minute I would die.

As usual, my mind is spinning in circles...is it me? Am I making mountains out of molehills? Being too analytical? Worrying about nothing? Being emotional?

When I was 18 I was an emotional wreck and I couldn't imagine having to deal with some kind of fame.

Worry is a waste of emotional reserve".

When people are afraid, they make emotional decisions.

He lived in terror of, well, becoming ordinary.

We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic.

You only ever experience two emotions: euphoria and terror. And I find that lack of sleep enhances them both.

One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

Gather experience... Look at what you should not look at. A feeling of anxiety is the sure and certain evidence that you should do this.

When I was young, I was just about hard work. But as I got older, I did experience anxiety, doubt, judgment, and it's so easy to lose yourself for a second.

You wouldn't be normal if you were never afraid. Even the bravest men experience fear. One of the biggest jobs we all face in combat is to overcome fear.

We are neurotically haunted today by the imminence, and by the ignominy, of failure. We know at how frightening a cost one succeeds: to fail is something too awful to think about.

Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure.

I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.

When you get rid of your fear of failure, your tensions about succeeding... you can be yourself. Relaxed. You'll no longer be driving with your brakes on.