Quotes About Anxiety

A good many established writers seem to have the feeling that some day they are going to be found out, revealed as frauds.

We are afraid of failure, of ridicule, of being rejected. We are afraid we're not good enough.

I have a fear of doing stuff thats not very good and being remembered for that.

When you're put in a position where you're having to decide, Is this a good decision? Is this the right decision for everybody involved? - it makes me feel a little unsteady, unsure.

I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.

I go to the chair of government with feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution.

The level of concern and anxiety among scientists - and I guess I'd say the science-friendly public - about the place of science in society in government, has gone beyond concern to anxiety.

People will frighten you about a graduation....They use words you don't hear often.

It's hard not to be afraid. Be less afraid.

What makes us afraid is our great freedom in the face of the emptiness that has still to be filled.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.

I'm not great at dating, but I need to do it to relax.

I'm not a stand up at all, it's such a fear of mine. My sister does it, and she's really great at it.

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.

Happiness is an enemy. It weakens you. Suddenly, you have something to lose.

If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.

The weak fear happiness itself. They can harm themselves on cotton wool. Sometimes they are wounded even by happiness

WORRYING does not take away tomorrow's TROUBLES, it takes away today's PEACE.

Anxiety and Ennui are the Scylla and Charybdis on which the bark of human happiness is most often wrecked.

I'm really afraid to feel happy because it never lasts

Worry is to joy what a Hoover vacuum cleaner is to dirt: might as well attach your heart to a happiness-sucker and flip the switch.

The weak fear happiness itself.