Quotes About Anxiety

There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.

Love is full of anxious fears.

Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.

The worse I got, the more I worried that Sharon would leave me. And the more I worried, the worse I got.

Snart finns ej längre land, ej stad, där du trygg är, och ingen frågar vad det innebär.

My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going to be scared.

MARTY and THE GIRL exit into the kitchen. THE MOTHER stands, expressionless, by her chair watching them go. She remains standing rigidly even after the porch door can be heard being opened and shut. The camera moves up to a close-up of THE MOTHER. Her eyes are wide. She is staring straight ahead. There is fear in her eyes.)

Pray, hope, and don't worry. Worry is useless. God is merciful and will hear your prayer.

I near the practice hall and pause, trying to push down my dread. Though I have trained with Astrid every day, I still have not let go and flown. Each day I wait for her to give up and tell me to leave. Come back tomorrow, she simply says

I live in a world of worst-case scenarios.

The French don't valorize a pregnant woman's anxiety. Instead, in the word cloud of French pregnancy, terms like serenity, balance, and Zen keep popping up. Mothers-to-be are supposed to signal their competence by showing how calm they are and by making it clear that they still experience pleasure. This small shift in emphasis makes a big difference.

Joséphine avait peur, si peur. Elle aurait pu indiquer précisément où elle avait peur, mesurer la longueur, l'épaisseur, le diamètre de la barre qui lui écrasait le plexus et l'empêchait de respirer.

So long as we believe in our heart of hearts that our capacity is limited and we grow anxious and unhappy, we are lacking in faith. One who truly trusts in God has no right to be anxious about anything.

Intrusive thoughts are my nemesis, cutting through my joy

What happened to "we have nothing to fear but fear itself"?

La angustia es una compañera tan antigua. Quizá no sea la compañera más agradable del mundo, pero es una buena consejera.

Y qué felicidad que no te aplaste la angustia pánica frente al día que llega con cada amanecer!

As Seth Godin says, "Anxiety is nothing but repeatedly re-experiencing failure in advance.

You are afraid of us. You are afraid because you don't know what we might do.

In the real world, the Sergeant was tired of worrying and sick of cocoa. He was disturbed by feelings in his mind that he was not really himself at all. Several times he half-started out of his chair on an impulse to get out on the streets to ask the first person he met: "Where were you at ten past three on the morning of December the thirteenth, nineteen fifty-four"; just to prove to himself that he was still the Sergeant and that he knew how to do his duty.

It is what we love the most / can make us most afraid

Kaitlyn froze and then said in a low tone, "That'd better be your gun." "Why yes, I always pack my gun where it'll blow my balls off."[Landon]

Fear makes idiots out of us all, at some time or other.

Paranoia: the gift of the survivor and the burden of the overtired, stressed, and terrified...