Quotes About Anxiety

I'm sometimes a little bit paranoid.

I am so scared of the 'Paranormal Activity' movies. I didn't think I was going to be able to sleep.

Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.

I definitely had those moments, like any actor, when you get anxious and think, 'When am I going to work again?' But I would feel that way even when I had every offer in the world coming to me. Then I became a father and I felt a little more of the anxiety that came with the responsibility of being a parent.

Every parent has those moments where they look at their child and think, 'There's a demon in those eyes and no one can see it but me!'

Anyone who's a parent dreads that call in the middle of the night. I have four grown children and I still dread it.

Learning to drive is a scary thing for a parent. I had to basically lie to get the keys when I was a kid.

Sometimes it's a bizarre, fairly cold, and horrifying thing to be a parent.

It's quite difficult for a parent to know that their daughter is in great danger.

I think any parent, at some time or other, has thoughts of their child dying. That's probably one of the worst things that could ever happen to a parent.

Any kid who grew up with an alcoholic parent will tell you how nauseating it feels never to know what it will be like when you come home.

In a country that lacks federal paid parental leave, many new mothers are back to work within weeks of giving birth, which can result in health consequences like maternal stress and anxiety.

Parenting is much more nerve-wracking than 'Jeopardy!'

In parenthood, there's so much fear around parenting in this day and age, and there's so much fear around technology.

There is a lot of parenting that's completely out of your control, but I think we live in an era right now where we think if, God forbid, you couldn't talk to someone, you would flip out - you know what I mean?

I'm not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose... it'll be much harder to detect.

But I'm not particularly comfortable around guns.

I'm not very good at going to parties and looking like I'm having fun.

I did not love going out to parties or even get-togethers, really - I went to the movies, which, if you think about it, is an isolating experience anyway - and this was because I had anxiety about interacting with people.

I'm terrible with big parties.

The world is enormously dangerous and scary. I worry very much for my daughter. I'm not sure we're in control any more, and I think the Internet is partly responsible for that.

Lots of people think I'm telling porky pies when I say how nervous I get about singing. I was good at working out how music was put together, and I was good at being at the back, but if you asked me to sing up front, then I looked like I was going to pass out.

All relationship systems become anxious. People put together and inevitably anxiety will arise. Anxiety can be infectious. We can give it to others or catch it from them. What precisely triggers anxiety is unique to each system. Common Activators are significant changes and losses. They upset the stable patterns and balance of the system.

Where there is little self-definition, there is a vague vision. Where there is an unclear vision, the people perish in their own anxious reactivity. They have no head and are headed nowhere. Where there is self-definition, there is a clear vision. Where there is a clear vision, there is a response to the future.