Quotes About Anxiety

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.

It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.

There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.

In my life, I had known suffering, oppression, anxiety; I had never known boredom. I could see no objection to the endless, imbecile repetition of sameness.

Il me dit: « Vous avez dû avoir peur. » Je réponds oui pour ne pas faire d'histoires, mais en fait je n'ai pas eu peur du tout, j'ai juste eu l'impression que j'allais crever dans les prochaines minutes ; c'est différent.

I felt more and more ill at ease: people had often spoken to me about show business, media projects, and micro-sociology; but art, never, and I was filled with the presentiment of something novel, dangerous, and probably fatal, from a domain where there was — a bit like in love — almost nothing to win and almost everything to lose.

Ta selgitab mulle, et esimesed sümptomid on täpselt ühesugused, aga erinevalt infarktist, mis lõpeb sageli surmaga, on perikardiit täiesti ohutu haigus, sellesse ei surda, mitte ühelgi juhul. Ta ütleb mulle: "Küllap oli teil hirm naha vahel." Vastan jaatavalt, et mitte pikemalt seletama hakata, kuigi tegelikult ei kartnud ma sugugi, mul oli lihtsalt tunne, et järgmisel hetkel ma suren ära; need on kaks ise asja.

Specific terrors.

He knew a few people there. And he was afraid that this

Fear is the loneliest feeling. You can be in a throng of people, but if you're afraid, you're on your own.

Fear of the dark. Until I came here, I thought that was for children; that you grew out of it. But it never really goes away. It's always there underneath. The oldest fear of all.

You can collect as many rings as you like, Telamon, but you'll never have enough. I think you'll be afraid for the rest of your life! - Pirra

Fear of the dark. Until I came here, I thought that was for children; that you grew out of it. But it never really goes away. It's always there underneath. The oldest fear of all. What's at the back of the cave?

Heeft je vader het ooit over de Zieleneters gehad?' Torak fronste. 'Nee. Daar heb ik nog nooit van gehoord.' 'Dan moet je de enige in het hele Woud zijn.' … 'Waarom heetten ze Zieleneters?' vroeg hij, bijna zonder zijn lippen te bewegen. 'Aten ze echt zielen?' 'Wie weet? De mensen werden bang, en wanneer mensen bang zijn, worden geruchten tot waarheid.

I'm twenty-eight years old and I hate my life. I never have the time or the energy to work out how to change it. On Sundays I trail round a museum to keep warm, or lose myself in a library book, or fiddle with the wireless. But Monday's already looming. And always I've got this panicky feeling inside, because I know I'm getting nowhere, just keeping myself alive. Tacked

Like all parents, my husband and I just do the best we can, and hold our breath and hope we've set aside enough money for our kids' therapy.

I was kind of surprised to learn how controlling I am. I never thought of myself in that way. I think the root of the control issues is usually fear, because you want to know what's going to be happening at any given moment.

I do find comedy difficult. I don't know why. Maybe I think about it too much. There's a tremendous amount of pressure to be funny.

There's nothing to fear but fear itself

No matter what - rehearsed, under-rehearsed, over-rehearsed, doubts about rehearsing - the first gig is always the first gig, and you put on your little praying hat, batten down the hatch, and do what you do.

You better stop Look around Here it comes, here it comes, here it comes, here it comes Here comes your nine-teenth nervous breakdown.

As a result of his weak ego and virtually non-existent superego, these penetrating fantasies cause no anxiety to the ego and are therefore neither repressed nor are they sublimated into more acceptable versions. The serial killer is in absolute command and is omnipotent in his own fantasies.

Age is a slowing down of everything except fear.

Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head.