Quotes About Anxiety

For some reason it wasn't as hard to have her touch me, now that she knew my name. Her fingers were strong and brisk. I wondered who she went home to, whether she washed their hair for them in the shower or bath, if she knew how easy it would be to hurt me across the larynx with a shampoo bottle and watch me choke to death. I almost sat up.

With poverty everything becomes frightful.

Leah and Gideon were left staring at each other with hollow expressions. Armies marching. War on the way.

Yeah, Jade was chasing me in a fancy limo—it was like a nightmare

One of the symptoms of senile dementia is suspicion and the other is paranoia.

man's inherent state of being is one of anxiety and hopelessness.

I need to be frightened of things. I hate it, but I must need it, because it's what I do.

You don't dare to think ahead too much, for you don't want this melted under the heat of your attention, don't want it gone from your life.

My heart is beating as though it were waiting for something.

They were terrified out of their wits, the devil knows why: they take you for a brigand and a spy. And the prosecutor has died of fright; the funeral is to-morrow. Won't you be there?

Korku vebadan da tehlikelidir ve göz aç?p kapayana kadar yay?l?r.

Fear is more contagious than the plague and is instantly communicated.

La peur, plus contagieuse encore que la peste, se communique en un clin d'œil. Tous se découvrirent des péchés qu'ils n'avaient même pas commis.

marks around her neck. She tilted her head and smiled at me. I swallowed. I was never going to drink anything again. How could I pee with Christie around?

The very desire to live is the messenger of death, as the longing to be happy is the outline of sorrow. The world is an ocean of pain and fear, anxiety and despair. Pleasures are like the fishes, few and swift, coming rarely, quickly gone.

Life can paralyze us, freeze us into statues if we think about things too long.

rather than raising us, their children, from a place of love, they raised us in fear. Doesn't it stand to reason that their fear would shape the adults we become? Anxious, plagued by a constant sense that something, everything, is wrong. Their fear has crippled us, and our inability to function only feeds our anxiety. We are failing at life. So now all we are is failure.

Think of what's scary in a movie… The unseen, the imagined, is always more frightening than what's graphically portrayed.The same holds true in your head. Face your fear, step into it, look at it head-on and it will diminish in stature, lose its hold on your imagination. But run, and it'll grow wings, breather fire, and fly after you.

People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.

Everybody overstates his case, particularly when he is anxious to do something which he considers useful.

Constantine, it must be remembered, was not a well-educated man. In his anxiety before the battle of the Milvian Bridge he actually thought he could strike a bargain with God. This gamble on Christianity apparently led to his victory

The childhood of tens of thousands of Palestinian youngsters is being lived from one trauma to the next, from horror to horror. Their homes are demolished, their parents are humiliated in front of their eyes, soldiers storm into their homes brutally in the middle of the night, tanks open fire on their classrooms. And they don't have a psychological service. Have you ever heard of a Palestinian child who is a "victim of anxiety"?

The natural role of the twentieth-century man is anxiety.

One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'