Quotes About Stress

The worst form of stress is an absence of stress, because the feeling that there is no life before death gives rise to a despairing feeling of emptiness in the face of the void.

If there's one lesson I've learned, it's that life is all about change, and stress comes from avoiding change.

we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us different ways. Then tears come, and like the rain on the ropes, they brace us up, until perhaps the strain become too great, and we break. But King Laugh he come like the sunshine, and he ease off the strain again, and we bear to go on with our labor, what it may be.

This behavior may...counteract feelings of'numbness'and depersonalization that aries duriing periods of extreme stress.-153 Girl,Interrupted

To stress the negative aspect of self-discipline is to contribute to the vast amount of indirect propaganda which is made, in our society, against the spiritual life.

She'd have to start smoking. There would be no other way through this.

Sometimes college seemed merely an endless exhausting string of appointments.

Gia. Jax caught my upper arm as I moved to pass him. I've got this. Don't stress. Easy for you to say. I told him, my chin lifting. You don't have anything on the line. His jaw tightened. I love you. I've got everything on the line.

I feel occasionally my skull will crack, fatigue is continuous - I only go from less exhausted to more exhausted & back again.

I am so busy keeping my head above water that I scarcely know who I am, much less who anyone else is.

My skin is broken out from subconscious anxiety and tension, self-induced. Nothing is more difficult than lashing a vagrant mind suddenly into long self-imposed stints of concentration.

I may have made a straight A in physics, but I was panic-struck. Physics made me sick the whole time I learned it.

After all, I wasn't crippled in any way, I just studied too hard, I didn't know when to stop.

There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them. Whenever I'm sad I'm going to die, or so nervous I can't sleep, or in love with somebody I won't be seeing for a week, I slump down so far and then I say: 'I'll go take a hot bath.

If I had to strain my brain with any more of that stuff I would go mad.

There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them. Whenever I'm sad I'm going to die, or so nervous I can't sleep, or in love with somebody I won't be seeing for a week, I slump down just so far and then I say: "I'll go take a hot bath.

Being with Jody and Mark and Cal was beginning to weigh on my nerves, like a dull wooden block on the strings of a piano. I was afraid that at any moment my control would snap, and I would start babbling about how I couldn't read and couldn't write and how I must be just about the only person who had stayed awake for a solid month without dropping dead of exhaustion.

There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them. Whenever I'm sad I'm going to die, or so nervous I can't sleep, or in love with somebody I won't be seeing for a week, I slump down just so far and then I say: 'I'll go take a hot bath.

Y si mi tutora hubiera sabido cuán asustada estaba y cuán seriamente contemplaba posibles soluciones extremas, como el obtener un certificado médico que me declarara incapacitada para el estudio de la Química, en que constara que las fórmulas me mareaban y cosas por el estilo, estoy segura de que no me hubiera escuchado un solo minuto y me habría hecho hacer el curso a pesar de todo.

I may have had a straight A in physics, but I was panick-struck. Physics made me sick the whole time I learned it.

Blame, justification, and complaining are like pills. They are nothing more than stress reducers. They alleviate the stress of failure.

the boiling human chaos of metropolitan New York

Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity

Everyone was mad already, my lady," Cadrach said with a strange, sorrowful smile. "It is merely that the times have brought it out in them.