Quotes About Anxiety

Where are people going? I wonder what they hope will happen and what they are afraid of? For me it's the same thing and has to do with being loved.

As far as paintings go, I always think about what it's like to move them and hang them up and hope they don't drop. To me, that seems like a big gamble, but that comes from me not being a painter.

The animal lacks both anxiety and hope because its consciousness is restricted to what is clearly evident and thus to the present moment: the animal is the present incarnate.

I'm beginning to think of hope as a dangerous, terrifying thing.

I have very vivid dreams and nightmares, and my biggest fear is of some kind of dystopian future where we're advanced in every way except in our humanity.

A crust in comfort is better than a feast in fear.

Anticipating the end of the world is humanity's oldest passtime

Pre-mature ejaculation. Let's talk about it. Premature ejaculation. That's a pretty fancy term for, "Ooooooh Oh no. This has never happened before."

Last week I told my psychiatrist, 'I keep thinking about suicide', and he told me from now I have to pay in advance.

Even snakes are afraid of snakes.

As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula.

He awoke at six, as usual. He needed no alarm clock. He was already comprehensively alarmed.

Dating is like pushing your tray along in a cafeteria. Nothing looks good, but you know you have to pick something by the time you reach the cashier.

Humor is an almost physiological response to fear.

It's not the tales of Stephen King that I've read, I need protection from the things in my head . . .

I went to the doctor. I said to him "I'm frightened of lapels." He said, "You've got cholera."

Get me outa here. F*ckin' creepy cheerleaders.

Even bipolar vampires needed sleep from time to time, and he was well past his recommended safe dosage of stress.

There's always a bit of suspense about the particular way in which a given school year will get off to a bad start.

Anxiety and hostility seem to be a great part of good and bad humor. Examining humor too closely does seem to destroy it.

The dentist drills some more and you hear him make a mistake. And to cover it up, they all say the same thing: "Okay, rinse."

It's not the books by Stephen King that I read, I need protection from the things in my head . . .

It was a sign of how worried and confused I was that I wasn't completely distracted by the sight of his powerful thighs flexed in front of me.

Everything was fine, would continue to be fine, would eventually get even better as long as the supermarket did not slip.