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Quotes About Anxiety

The irony is, nothing is more frightening than being frightened.
~ Neel Burton
Fear steals your joy and kills your dreams.
~ Err:509
Unprovoked hostility is often but displaced self-defense: 'I must stop him before he stops me.' In many of such environments, nobody is really hateful so much as they are just fearful.
~ Criss Jami, Healology
Writer's block is just another name for fear.
~ Jacob Nordby
Okay, I'll just jump right out and say it. I have anxiety issues.
~ Shannon Celebi
I had spent so much of life being afraid or living the memory of being afraid.
~ Maggie Stiefvater, Forever
Anxiety is nothing more than prolonged fear. It comes with prolonged chemical release that does incalculable damage to your neurons over time.
~ Toni Sorenson
When we are young we fear we are not alone in the dark, When we grow up we fear we are
~ Unknown
You can be a really nasty, selfish little jerk when you're scared enough. I was scared enough.
~ Robin McKinley, Sunshine
...we fear monsters because we fear the dark parts of ourselves...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
Worry is like a roller coaster ride that you think will take you somewhere, but it never does.
~ Shannon L. Alder
She became certain that there was something in the dark behind her: something very old and very slow. Her heart beat so hard and so loudly she was scared it would burst out of her chest.
~ Neil Gaiman, Coraline
Darkness is but a door, scary not because it opens, but out of fear that it will never close
~ Johnathan Jena
Fear gripped her like hands around the neck, the way it could only happen in an unfamiliar room in the pitch black of night.
~ Elin Hilderbrand, Silver Girl
A misadventurer's greatest fear is their mother.
~ S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
Fear of night. Fear of not night.
~ Franz Kafka
Everything is worse...if you think something is looking at you.
~ Shirley Jackson
Our lives are defined by fear from the very time we are born to the time we bid adieu to this material world.
~ Unknown
Frightened that you'll be overcome by yourself? That a gentle monster inside of you might take over and never let go?
~ Jonathan Friesen, Both of Me
People will always try to scare you into things. Scare you away from things. Scare you into not wanting things you can't help wanting. You can't be afraid.
~ Megan Abbott, Dare Me
i am so crammedfull of fearsthat if you were to touch me i might eitherfly or break.
~ Sanober Khan
She was young and scared, and hadn't realized there was time to spare.
~ Unknown
Fear is and has always been dead. It's how we picture it that makes fear come to life.
~ George Cooke
I've been badly scared myself, badly, for quite a few years now. You learn to live with it.
~ Dean Koontz, Brother Odd