Quotes About Stress

But I've noticed that people got the most irrational whenever family was around—while simultaneously losing their ability to distinguish reason from insanity. I call it familial dementia.

Worry is fear in disguise.

staff cutbacks that meant nurses were working their asses off to cover the basics and, as a result, were barely maintaining a white-knuckled grip on civility. Bottom line: she hated hospitals for the same reason everyone else did. If she was in a hospital, it meant one of two things. She'd been hurt. Or someone she loved had been hurt.

Crap," I said. I'm quite eloquent in times of crisis

I'm sure the world would come to an end if I were allowed to feel a sense of relief and well-being for any length of time.

People who are scared need to laugh, and the scarier things are, the more they need it.

Don't borrow trouble.

Post-traumatic stress disorder from life-threatening injuries

I've noticed that people got the most irrational whenever family was around—while simultaneously losing their ability to distinguish reason from insanity. I call it familial dementia.

I get more threats before nine a.m. than most people get all day

When life attains a crisis, man's focus narrows.

Why did I keep stressing what was and was not normal, when nothing about it was?

I would like you to believe that I kept working out of some real professionalism, to meet the deadline, but that would not be entirely true; I did have a deadline, but it was also a troubled time, and working did to the trouble what gin did to the pain.)

Trabajo cincuenta horas semanales y reconozco que a veces no tengo tiempo para «ser todo lo que puedo ser»

Because I had been tired too long and quarrelsome too much and too often frightened of migraine and failure and the days getting shorter

I knew from experience that events tend to gang up on you. It's not one straw that breaks the camel's back - it's the cumulative straws piling up and weighing you down. - Kiki Lowenstein

I once asked a young dissertation writer whether her suddenly grayed hair was due to ill health or personal tragedy; she answered: "It was the footnotes".

No, but it's almost as bad as that. I need to calm down, Hannah. Do you have any chocolate?" "You've come to the house of endorphins, the source of the Dark Chocolate River, the heart of the Milk Chocolate Valley, and the foothills of the White Chocolate Mountains.

After a certain point, a heart with so many stress fractures can never be anything but broken.

You can have the best intentions, but the moment there's a hairline crack, it is only a matter of time before you go to pieces.

Back then, work revolved around life. Today, life revolves around work.

sleep is such a luxury, which i cant afford.

Its not workload that kills you, its worry that kills you.

I think the worst sort of time travel is how the clock speeds up when I'm on my break.