Quotes About Anxiety

It was the worst kind of fear there was in sports, the kind where you didn't give yourself a chance to do something right--even something great--because you were terrified you might do something wrong.

There's some movies I watch, they're kind of like my anti-anxiety pill, my anti-depressant pill. I watch them at least once or twice a month probably. And I never stop learning from them as a filmmaker.

Nerves provide me with energy. They work for me. It's when I don't have them, when I feel at ease, that I get worried.

All hate is just fear. All fear is just insecurity

We won't survive if someone loses their nerves in the current tension.

The source of anxiety lies in the future. If you can keep the future out of mind, you can forget your worries.

Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo Fear of falling No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.

It was always just a question of time, and time meant so much to us, who were so anxious to get away, and so little to them.

The first sign of a nervous breakdown is when you start thinking your work is terribly important.

Don't worry about anything. Worrying never solved anything. All it does is distort your mind.

If she'd had the cash in her pocket, she would've just given it to him. Money had always been a kind of burden to her. If she had it, she spent it, and when she didn't have it, she worried about how she would live. She wished she had enough so she wouldn't feel so anxious all the time. Would there ever be enough?

so often that she'd feared for

I want you to talk to me so I can go to sleep. I cannot sleep anymore, Solomon. I do not know why, but I cannot sleep anymore.

No one ever wants to hear how stressed out anyone else is, because most of the time everyone is stressed out.

So, with my zit throbbing like a nightclub, I went to the interview.

Catastrophizing is my general approach to all social events: how, when, and why it will implode are the first things I think about

They're awful fears. They're sweat-through-your-nightgown-into-your-sheets fears. I don't wish them on any of you. But if you have them too, that makes me feel better. And if you feel better knowing that I have them, I'm happy.

It's weird when you feel your dream slipping away from you. Especially when you have no other dreams. I was surprised that my overwhelming feeling was not sadness; it was terror. What on earth am I going to do now?

If you have never seen a flight attendant praying, I hope you never do, because it is one the scariest things in the whole world. Scarier

I never think environmental hazards are going to kill me. I only think serial killers are.

Going on and on in detail about how stressed out I am isn't conversation. It'll never lead anywhere.

I'm the kind of person who becomes silent when I get scared, because I hope Death will not notice me if I am very still and very quiet. It has worked well so far.

What will life be like without her? I am dreadfully sad she is leaving. What if she just disappears; gets tired of all this trouble at home? What if she leaves me too? How heavy is a dresser when you're the only one pushing it against the door? I feel truly on my own.

People often chase the danger they're least afraid of to distract them from the part of life that scares them most.