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Quotes About Stress

I become faint and nauseous during even very minor medical procedures, such as making an appointment by phone.
~ Dave Barry
Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.
~ Marcel Proust
Medical experts now estimate that 80 percent of diseases are directly linked to frantic living.
~ Doris Janzen Longacre
Worry is an old man with bended head, carrying a load of feathers which he thinks are lead.
~ Corrie Ten Boom
No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear.
~ George MacDonald
A man who has to be punctually at a certain place at five o'clock has the whole afternoon ruined for him already.
~ Lin Yutang
Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
~ Margaret Fuller
The state of that man's mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
~ Seneca the Younger
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
~ James Thurber
I believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive
~ Konrad Lorenz
If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!
~ Marilyn Monroe
Software development, like professional sports, has a way of making thirty-year-old men feel decrepit.
~ Neal Stephenson
Southern California doesn't know whether to bustle or just strangle itself on the spot.
~ Neal Stephenson
He is full of adrenaline, his nerves are shot, and his mind is cluttered up with free-floating anxiety-floating around on an ocean of generalized terror.
~ Neal Stephenson
Occasionally a red taxi or Mercedes-Benz would squeeze by along the iron fence and burst free, the driver holding down the horn button so furiously that he might detonate the air bag.
~ Neal Stephenson
I love the scent of a man under pressure.
~ Neal Stephenson
Southern California doesn't know whether to bustle or just strangle itself on the spot.
~ Neal Stephenson
Oh, they used to argue over times, many corporate driver-years lost to it: homeowners, red-faced and sweaty with their own lies, stinking of Old Spice and job-related stress, standing in their glowing yellow doorways brandishing their Seikos and waving
~ Neal Stephenson
What am I always going to do? I'm going to go home and freak out.I'm going to sit with my family and try not to talk about myself and what's wrong. Im going to try and eat. Then I'm going to try and sleep. I dread it. I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?
~ Ned Vizzini
Sometimes I just think depression's one way of coping with the world. Like, some people get drunk, some people do drugs, some people get depressed.
~ Ned Vizzini
Like I'm on the verge of just blowing up. All the stress and pressure and anxiety just bubbling up.
~ Ned Vizzini
I work, Monica, and I think about work, and I freak out about work, and I think about how much I think about work, and I freak out about how much I think about how much I think about work, and I think about how freaked out I get about how much I think about how much I think about work. Does that count as a hobby?
~ Ned Vizzini
I'm going to go home and freak out. I'm going to sit with my family and try not to talk about myself and what's wrong. I'm going to try and eat. Then I'm going to try and sleep. I dread it. I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?
~ Ned Vizzini
I work, Monica, and I think about work, and I freak out about work, and I think about how much I think about work, and I freak out about how much I think about how much I think about work, and I think about how freaked out I get about how much I think about how much I think about work.
~ Ned Vizzini