Quotes About Anxiety

Habla muy deprisa, como si el silencio la asustara.

Pero ante todos la felicidad me asusta. Soy consciente del dolor que puede causar.

Cuando tengo mucho miedo, noto que la mecánica de mi corazón patina hasta tal punto que parezco una locomotora de vapor en el momento en que sus ruedas chirrían en una curva. Viajo sobre los raíles de mi propio miedo. ¿De que tengo miedo? De ti, en fin, de mi sin ti.

Without that fear, we are all as good as dead.

Because so many people fear speaking in public, many so-called experts tend to focus on simply surviving the experience.

Unfortunately, her mother and her tutors were more focused on what Diana referred to as the Dire Warnings: War. Torture. Genocide. Pollution. Bad Grammar.

A new fear began to grip me, almost as powerful as the fear of what could befall us on the mountain: the fear of running out of reading material.

I'm scared shitless." Knowing and accepting that a few things were bound to go wrong.

It was, of course, another test. Everything in human life was a test. That was why they all looked so stressed out.

Curiosity and passion are the enemies of anxiety. Even when I fell into anxiety, if I get curious enough about something outside of me it can help pull me out. Music, art, film, nature, conversation, words. Find passion as large as your fear. The way out of your mind is via the world.

Fear was when you wandered into a cellar and worried that the door would close shut. Despair was when the door closed and locked behind you.

That's the odd thing about depression and anxiety. It acts like an intense fear of happiness, even as you yourself consciously want that happiness more than anything. So if it catches you smiling, even fake smiling, then - well, that stuff's just not allowed and you know it, so here comes ten tons of counterbalance.

Life is frightening, and it is frightening for a reason, and the reason is that it doesn't matter which branch of a life we get to live, we are always the same rotten tree. I wanted to be many things in my life. All kinds of things. But if your life is rotten, it will be rotten no matter what you do. The damp rots the whole useless thing...

Living with anxiety, turning up, and doing stuff with anxiety takes a strength most people will never know.

Anxiety takes away all the commas and full stops we need to make sense of ourselves.

Being a parent is standing on a shore and watching her child in a vulnerable craft, heading out over deeper and deeper water, hoping but not knowing there will be land somewhere ahead.

I don't think your problem was stage fright. Or wedding fright. I think your problem was life fright.

The present is known. The future is unknown. The present is solid. The future is abstract. Ruining the present by worrying about the future is like burning your most treasured possession simply because you might one day lose other possessions that you don't own yet.

It fascinated me how depression and anxiety overlap with post-traumatic stress disorder. Had we been through some trauma we didn't know about? Was the noise and speed of modern life the trauma for our caveman brains? Was I that soft? Or was life a kind of war most people didn't see?

I slipped into a state beyond my usual grief and restlessness and anxiety and despair – one of not feeling anything at all. And when I felt nothing I almost became nostalgic for the grief; at least when you felt pain you knew you were still alive.

One frustration with anxiety is that it is often hard to find a reason behind it. There may be no visible threat and yet you can feel utterly terrorized.

Love is anxiety's greatest killer. Love is an outward force. It is our road out of our own terrors, because anxiety is an illness that wraps us up in our own nightmares. [...] Forcing yourself to see the world through love's gaze can be healthy. Love is an attitude to life. It can save us.

If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment. Live in the breath.

All that humans create serves solely to lessen the terror of existence.