Quotes About Anxiety

Forget about what you are escaping from. Reserve your anxiety for what you are escaping to.

It's like one of those dreams you have when someone is chasing you. You're running as fast as you can, and someone's trotting behind you, just out of range, trying to grab onto you.

Sometimes I lie awake and hear noises in the house, and despite myself I'm frightened. Then I hear some familiar sound—a clock strikes, or a train whistles somewhere—and my fear abates. But why should those sounds comfort me, and others frighten me? Why couldn't a ghost make the sound of a train?

I'm anxious to get back to D.C. to correct all the inaccuracies and lies that are being said.

Fear is a memory of better times. Fear is a dream.

When anxiety is internalized and expressed as a physical symptom, the person feels bad "physically", when anxiety is internalized and expressed as an emotional symptom, the person feels bad "mentally.

My mom and father are extremely proud. They love it when I don't die. I've done so many movies where I've died that their first question when I book a job is, 'So, are you going to die in this?'

When you're in this state of mind you are constantly 'on edge'.

We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: what's the worst that can happen?

Gradually, methodically, he shed most of his anxiety. But not all. Being too relaxed, he felt, was also a danger. In appropriate doses, worry was useful, possibly lifesaving. "I used worry to encourage thought," he said. "Worry can give you an extra prod to survive and plan. And I had to plan.

Crystal and Starbucks had saved my life. Saved me from my pursuit of empty symbols, but also my anxiety about a fear-filled superficial life that hadn't been, in the end, helpful or even enjoyable for me

armed, Crosetti found, felt a lot like having a broken zipper on your fly, something that made you feel self-conscious and

Or dozing and waking under mosquito netting in a mess of slick sweat, gagging for air that wasn't 99 percent moisture, one clean breath to dry-sluice your anxiety and the backwater smell of your own body. But all you got and all there was were misty clots of air that corroded your appetite and burned your eyes and made your cigarettes taste like swollen insects rolled up and smoked alive, crackling and wet.

Now that I've seen what Mennus is capable of, I'm even more worried about her. He's a genuine nitcase.

This is what my lifelong search for room to maneuver had come to: a box of water in a lightless, windowless nine-by-sixteen-foot room—afraid to leave my artificial womb, to go outside where I could only cause trouble, disappoint my family and myself. Best, I thought, to stay right here where I couldn't fuck anything up. And stay I would, day after day, sometimes three or four times on weekends, for hours at a time, just trying to keep my head below water. Connecticut—Christmas

We perceive the world in the light of our hopes and fears.

When I can't sleep, every wrong I've ever committed slips in through the cracks in the doors and windows like the ghosts in Poltergeist.

I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened." ? Mark Twain Quote

A lot of children, like I did, move away from words because of the fear - which is something you have to take out of education: the fear of worrying about what marks you'll get, detention, worrying about letting people down, your parents, teachers.

If you are going to worry, don't do it. If you do it, don't worry.

When I focus on me, I increase my anxiety.

Are you ready for nuclear Armageddon?

But then where is she? It's a simple question but once it's been asked, a floodgate of questions follow: What if something's happened?

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.