Quotes About Stress

But honestly, isn't that adulthood in a summary? Constant feelings of pure, overwhelming dread?

Eating with children at a restaurant is like eating with a live grenade. It's going to explode every time. You just don't know when.

It was like the entire world was colluding to make me feel insane, and it was doing a really good job.

So much of anxiety was anxiety about having anxiety.

What are you? I asked. I'm the Ghost of the Night Before Exams. And how long did it take you to come up with that? Jazza asked. I'm a busy man, he replied.

People say depression lies. Anxiety is just stupid. It's unable to tell the difference between things that are actually scary (being buried alive, for example) and things that are not scary at all (being in bed under the covers). It hits all the same buttons. Stop. Go. Up. Down. It's all the same to anxiety.

Why was she so anxious? Because she had anxiety.

Sometimes anxiety did that—it could slow you down or speed you up.

She didn't want to be brave anymore. It was exhausting. Anxiety crawled under her skin all the time, like some alien creature that might burst through at any moment. Stevie

I am out of ideas and need to conserve my energy so I can freak out more efficiently.

It was a good brain, but it had only two modes—fog and frenzy.

Office of Confusion and Panic

When a man drowns himself in work, it's because he's trying to escape from something. You ought to have a hobby.

Do people sleep a lot because they're tired or because they want to escape from something?

They used to rush through here, it was the hurry of men who knew where they were going and were eager to get there. Now they're hurrying because they are afraid. It's not a purpose that drives them, it's fear. They're not going anywhere, they're escaping. And I don't think they know what it is that they want to escape.

Yoga allows you to find an inner peace that is not ruffled and riled by the endless stresses and struggles of life.

What's certain is that I don't need the stress.

Sometimes you were just screwed, and the best you could do was have a stiff drink—and light up a cigarette.

I've been having nightmares," she said quietly. "Basically the same dream for months now. I'm exhausted.

I smoke. It's expensive. It's also the best option. You see, I am always, always exhausted. It's a stimulant. When I am too tired to walk one more step, I can smoke and go for another hour. When I am enraged and beaten down and incapable of accomplishing one more thing, I can smoke and feel a little better, just for a minute. It is the only relaxation I am allowed.

In Workers in a Lean World: Unions in the International Economy (Verso, 1997), Kim Moody cites studies finding an increase in stress-related workplace injuries and illness between the mid-1980s and the early 1990s. He argues that rising stress levels reflect a new system of "management by stress" in which workers in a variety of industries are being squeezed to extract maximum productivity, to the detriment of their health.

Everyone, from software writer to accountant, was now subject to the same insecurities as the "lonely salesman" once targeted by Norman Vincent Peale.

If you are one of the few that still hasn't been, let me tell you what a city is. A hot mess not easily escaped.

If fight or flight is the choice, it's way easier to fly.