Quotes About Anxiety

Women are afraid of mice and of murder, and of very little in between.

The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all.

A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him.

The neurotic longs to touch bottom, so at least he won't have that to worry about anymore.

Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality.

The neurotic is always half-drowning in anxiety, and always being half-rescued.

Your children tell you casually years later what it would have killed you with worry to know at the time.

Los ciudadanos que anhelaban el bien de la patria están lejos; unos piden limosna en casa ajena, otros pudren tierra en fosa común.

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Le dolía que los hechos pasasen con esta facilidad a ser recuerdos; notar la sensación de que nada, nada de lo pasado, podría reproducirse. Era aquella una sensación angustiosa de dependencia, le ponía nervioso la imposibilidad de dar marcha atrás en el reloj del tiempo.

Unconditional acceptance is especially important to children. If parents threaten to withdraw their love from a child when he fails to measure up, the child's natural playfulness will be gradually replaced by chronic anxiety.

Preoccupation with the self consumes psychic energy because in everyday life we often feel threatened.

The lack of inner order manifests itself in the subjective condition that some call ontological anxiety, or existential dread. Basically, it is a fear of being, a feeling that there is no meaning to life and that existence is not worth going on with.

How can it help a person learn to rid himself of anxieties and fears and thus become free of the controls of society, whose rewards he can now take or leave? As suggested before, the way is through control over consciousness, which in turn leads to control over the quality of experience.

When there are too many demands, options, challenges, we become anxious; when too few, we get bored.

Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them," said Epictetus

true, they abandon faith in everything else they have learned. Deprived of the customary supports that cultural values had given them, they flounder in a morass of anxiety and apathy.

On bad days I have seventeen or twenty-four E-mail messages.

Enjoyment appears at the boundary between boredom and anxiety, when the challenges are just balanced with the person's capacity to act.

Those heart-hammering nightmares that start to lose coherence even as you're waking up from them, but that still manage to leave their moldering fingerprints all across your day.

We make our own monsters, then fear them for what they show us about ourselves.

Anxiety is a deep conscious breath away from dissolving.

Those that walk with fear will always be too busy hiding.

In the middle of the night, waiting for daylight feels like forever, a forever where you're stuck going over every bad thought in your head with a fine-tooth comb.