Quotes About Stress

t was almost disappointing because it seemed when stress and madness were eliminated from my daily life there wasn't much left you could depend on.

too often, the only escape is sleep

but we joke and laugh otherwise we would start screaming.

This kind of life is like everybody else's kind of life: it's killing us.

We are all museums of fear

We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.

cities are built to kill people

remembered how my father used to come home each night and talk about his job to my mother. The job talk began when he entered the door, continued over the dinner table, and ended in the bedroom where my father would scream "Lights Out!" at 8 p.m., so he could get his rest and his full strength for the job the next day. There was no other subject except the job.

Studies show that the two greatest stress-producing factors to body, mind, and emotions are the death of a spouse and divorce.

Worry about nothing. Pray about everything.

This is the second time you've been arrested in your entire life, and your stress levels are so high that were a bunch of black-robed inquisitors to file chanting into your cell and lead you down a stony tunnel lined with manacled skeletons to a cavern furnished with an electric chair, it would come as a relief.

I'm not mad, you know, although it helps in this line of work.

In a sufficiently large crisis, sane and measured responses go out the window.

I'm not a morning person, I just do my best worrying when I should be asleep.

the most dangerous kind of job stress stems from having "low control" over one's responsibilities.

Their eagerness to learn was replaced by a bizarre and erroneous notion that education is somehow a competition, not a process whereby a person becomes more capable and complete. There is even a term for the elite high school students most consumed by this phenomenon: "crispies"—because they have burned out. On

Several studies of thousands of British civil servants (the Whitehall studies) have found that workers who have little control over their jobs—meaning they have minimal say over what tasks are performed or how those tasks are carried out—have a significantly higher mortality rate than other workers in the civil service with more decision-making authority.

That's what happens when you get a regular job, other people's shit becomes your problem. 'Course, by the time you got that figured, it's up around your ears and you're just trying to keep your fucking mouth shut.

Worry and anxiety are not great thoughts; faith in God's promise is.

PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE I have so much to do today. I can't possibly get it all done, so I'm not going to start.

If you have a million things to do, adding item number 1,000,001 is not such a big deal. When, on the other hand, you have nothing to do, getting out of bed and washing yourself before 2:00 P.M. feels like too much work to even contemplate.

Do you know people cry on airplanes more than anywhere else?" "I didn't know it was a fact," she answered, "but I might have suspected as much from my years up here." "Yeah, you'd probably know better than me. But on a plane, you're often alone. Or you're stressed. Or you've just had some meaningful experience. Movies and books will really get to you at thirty-five thousand feet.

We used it every winter, and in every time of drought or famine. We survived by getting depressed. Not clinically depressed, or Prozac depressed, but survival depressed, as in let's slow down the metabolism, build up the fat stores, withdraw, turn inward, hibernate, cut everything back to bare minimum. Shut down and survive by letting all but the most critical systems atrophy and decay. In fact, all chronic stress works the same way.

Sleep is a luxury to anxious minds.