Quotes About Stress

It was as if a boa constrictor had wrapped itself around my torso and was squeezing me into the shape of a meal.

It's hard to explain to people the incredible emotional burden officers carry after enduring these types of incidents, especially when children are involved.

By the time we got to Section 6 ("Grounds for Expulsion"), my brain was turning into guacamole, and I'm pretty sure my ears were

There was a time when cops would hear a Level One come over the air, and it would be a holy-shit moment. These days it's so overused that the sense of urgency is gone.

I get insecure about a lot of things. In my line of work, unfortunately, your appearance is important, and I'm always like, 'Am I going to the gym enough this month? Have I been taking care of myself?' I get insecure about things from time to time.

Unfortunately these days, there is a hell of a lot that keeps me awake.

In all of my looking at happiness, one thing I noticed right away is that the opposite of happiness isn't unhappiness or even depression, it's anxiety. It is something that can constantly block our happiness, or our chance to reach that sort of meditative state in our work or our home lives.

You never saw a very busy person who was unhappy.

I am the kind of person who over-thinks, so I don't want to get to a point where I'm creating scenarios, taking pressure and people being unhappy.

I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant.

When you're unhappy, you tend to play up, don't you?

When I first had a child, I really had a hard time trying to figure out how it was all going to fit together. Because I felt like, when I was with him, I wanted to be writing and I should be writing. And when I was writing, I felt like I should be with him, and wanted to be with him. So I was unhappy a lot.

If you're constantly frightened of being unhappy, how bloody exhausting must that be?

There are so many rules in Judaism, and if you get into them and you get obsessed and you have the kind of life that I have, it can make you a very unhappy person. It can make everything complicated and more stressful than it needs to be, so I kind of loosened the knots a little bit.

A brother who is unhappy is a dangerous relative to have.

I've worked on sets that were unhappy.

I don't hold any contempt for people who are practicing law. I know how hard it is, I know how hard they work, and I know some of them who are so unhappy with it.

I'm not an unhappy person - I'm just an anxious person. It runs in the family.

I think London is a bit sad, and I find it a bit overwhelming. There's a lot of quite unhappy people, and it's very goal-driven.

I was spreading myself too thin. That was making me unhappy and that, in turn, was making the rest of Stone Sour unhappy.

You can be burned out no matter how successful you are, and you can be unhappy no matter how successful you are.

Many white people sense that they are being blamed for the sins of white slave owners and imperialists merely through some lineage of ethnicity. Activists' constant stress on white privilege can lead to an unhealthy defensive posture of white victimhood.

The stress of not allowing yourself life's guilty pleasures from time to time is as unhealthy as the act of indulging.

There's a really unique relationship between a single parent and their child. Marriages so easily break up. There's kind of this temporary deal about marriages. That's one of the things that makes it stressful, and that's something that's nonexistent in a parent-child relationship.