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Quotes About Stress

Nowadays most men lead lives of noisy desperation.
~ James Thurber
People sometimes made mistakes when they felt overburdened. Maybe they drank too much, slept with the wrong person, yelled at loved ones.
~ Jan Moran
Half an hour, the Gottmans found, is also about how long it takes for the chemicals released during "fight or flight" to exit the body.
~ Jancee Dunn
Yet in moments of industrial stress and strain the community is confronted by a moral perplexity which may arise from the mere fact that the good of yesterday is opposed to the good of today, and that which may appear as a choice between virtue and vice is really but a choice between virtue and virtue. In the disorder and confusion sometimes incident to growth and progress, the community may be unable to see anything but the unlovely struggle itself.
~ Jane Addams
What can be the meaning of that emphatic exclamation? cried he. Do you consider the forms of introduction, and the stress that is laid on them, as nonsense? I cannot quite agree with you there. What say you, Mary? For you are a young lady of deep reflection, I know, and read great books and make extracts.
~ Jane Austen
Have a little compassion on my nerves. You tear them to pieces.
~ Jane Austin
eco-anxiety.
~ Jane Goodall
Amazing how spending some money, especially when you haven't got it, can perk you up.
~ Jane Green
When we are tired, everything seems so very much worse.
~ Jane Green
Stress is the space between your thoughts of how life should be and how life really is. This
~ Jane Nelsen
Dana seemed to me to be sort of like a hot-air balloon. The more weight we could hang on her, in terms of children, houses, belongings, foodstuffs, office equipment, and debts, the harder it would be for her to gain altitude.
~ Jane Smiley
Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it.
~ Jane Wagner
I made some studies, and reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it. I can take it in small doses, but as a lifestyle, I found it too confining. It was just too needful; it expected me to be there for it all the time, and with all I have to do--I had to let something go.
~ Jane Wagner
That's nice of you, but it's not necessary to loan me a car." "I loan you cars all the time." "And I almost always destroy them or lose them. I have terrible luck with cars." "Working at Rangeman is a high-stress job, and you're one of our few sources of comic relief. I give you a car and my men start a pool on how long it will take you to trash it. You're a line item in my budget under entertainment.
~ Janet Evanovich
I don't believe this, Morelli yelled. I don't fucking believe this. What do you do, sit in bed at night and think about ways to fuck up my life?
~ Janet Evanovich
Get me a gun. If I don't go into labor soon, I'm going to shoot myself. And pass the gravy. Pass it now. Valerie - To the Nines
~ Janet Evanovich
Personally, I'm a lazy kind of guy, and leaving the door open on the mystical saves me work. I don't have to stress my brain trying to explain the unexplainable. It's magic. End of discussion.
~ Janet Evanovich
Turns out, that's how it is with weddings. You just keep getting in deeper and deeper until you want to throw up.
~ Janet Evanovich
These are desparate times. - Stephanie Plum
~ Janet Evanovich
There are four ways to manage stress. There's drugs, there's alcohol, there's sex, and there's doughnuts. I go with sex and doughnuts. I tried the other two and it wasn't any good. You being in a dry spell, you might have to rely on doughnuts.
~ Janet Evanovich
I've been under a lot of stress lately." "You know what I do when I got stress?" Lula said. "I go shoe shopping." "I knit," Connie said. "Get out!" Lula said. "I never knew you knit stuff." "I don't knit stuff," Connie said. "I just knit.
~ Janet Evanovich
Working at Rangeman is a high-stress job, and you're one of our few sources of comic relief. I give you a car and my men start a pool on how long it will take you to trash it. You're a line item in my budget under entertainment.
~ Janet Evanovich
Whoa. Time out. It's been a long, stressful day, but let's not talk crazy.
~ Janet Evanovich
Damn, piss, shit, fuck!
~ Janet Evanovich