Quotes About Anxiety

Sometimes you don't let us talk about how we're feeling. If we feel scared, you say, 'Nothing to worry about, guys,' but that doesn't make it go away. It makes it grow.

Mia's mother, Nonna Celia, is to blame for that, because she's a prophet of doom. Every time I'd ask her if we could go someplace the next day or next week, her reply would be, "We might not live that long." If I'd say, "See you tomorrow," her answer would be, "If that's what God wants." Leaving so much to fate has kept me an insomniac for most of my life...

I have to say it's a bit traumatic at times, not knowing when the next penis will appear.

I'm frightened to look at myself in the mirror because maybe nothing's there.

It's way too tense. Someone's either going to get into a fight or cry. Neither option is preferable.

All they needed to do was look up close at what it was they were afraid of and they'd probably realise that it wasn't so frightening after all.

Hold my hand because I might disappear.

There are some things you worry about. And then there are some things you don't worry about. You don't worry about them because they're too awful to contemplate worrying about.

She might scream when the nightmares found her, but not by choice, not when she was awake.

Being home always made her feel like she was walking on a high wire, waiting for a gust of wind to knock her to the ground. The

Worrying, obsessing, and controlling are illusions. They are tricks we play on ourselves.

But fear is confusing. It tears you in two. Half of you wants to run far, far away, but the other half is paralyzed, frozen, immovable. And the hard part is that you never know which half is going to win.

Now he knew why people were so scared of ghosts. It was because ghosts were so full of fear themselves.

They are consumed by the fear of desire.

For all we know, our ancestors may have had better reproductive success not because they were smart, but because they were emotionally sensitive, dynamically moody, and ridden with anxiety. In other words, it makes sense to hold up an evolutionary lens to mental disorders because they might not be disorders at all, but adaptations.

My life story is structured by reckless reenactments of panic and flight.

Our bodies made us shiver in fear and disgust. We looked in the mirror and prepared ourselves to be horrified.

Mothers never worry over nothing, but it is true that sometimes we worry over things we can't control.

Quem parte treme, quem regressa teme.

Lo que ha sucedido es que, con el tiempo, he dejado de estar a la expectativa. Y quien deja de estar a la expectativa es porque ya ha dejado de vivir. Y por eso es por lo que huyo: tengo miedo de ser devorada. No por la ansiedad que habita en mí. Devorada por el vacío de no amar. Devorada por el deseo de ser amada.

Quien vive en estas casas no es gente —rectifica el administrador. —¿No vive gente? —pregunta Gustavo—. Entonces ¿quién vive? —Ahora quien vive aquí es el miedo —responde.

I have a tendency to sabotage relationships I have a tendency to sabotage everything. Fear of success, fear of failure, fear of being afraid. Useless, good-for-nothing thoughts.

Nothing like a puppet to give you the willies.

For one, he was worried he'd get killed, which was something he generally tried to avoid.