Quotes About Stress

Studies find top 3 most stressful moments in people's lives: death, divorce, and properly pronouncing "Worcestershire sauce."

As you keep getting more popular, people are continually wanting more from you and it seems to me that all they want in the end is your death.

Everyone is calm and collected but I am telling you something - I am not calm and I am not collected. It's a sick world out there.

More people worry themselves to death than bleed to death.

I'm working myself to death.

Could he continue to maintain his sanity that long? He didn't know. That's why he was devouring two or three books a day - to remove himself every minute that he possibly could from the madness of this life.

Still, she felt absolutely sick inside, and as soon as she walked into her classroom, she knew that everyone was looking at her, even the teacher, as though at any moment she might stand up and do something crazy. Wally, in fact, kept leaning forward in his seat as if she might go berserk and take a bite out of his shoulder or something.

More and more of us feel like emergency-room physicians, permanently on call, required to heal ourselves but unable to find the prescription for all the clutter on our desk. •

Maybe it's just the accumulated stress and strain from a long season of steady struggle. Or maybe you aren't overwhelmed at all. More like underwhelmed—bored with the sameness and mundaneness of a life you thought would be filled with so much more adventure. The predictability, the pointlessness. Urgh. You so desperately want a change, or at least a little excitement along the way.

I talk to myself a lot, but it seldom does any good. I'm a tense kid. I know it. But I have good reason to be tense.

Even bipolar vampires needed sleep from time to time, and he was well past his recommended safe dosage of stress.

He sounded harassed more than anything else, like mass home invasion was just something standing between him and morning coffee.

And lowering your blood pressure by deep breathing or meditation—or even a healthy swearing session inside your closed car—has fewer side effects than any pill.

A department store two days before Christmas Eve is like a city in a state of siege....

The exhaustion of living was just too much for me

I'd probably long ago have gone seven kinds of crazy, one for each day of the week, if I didn't simplify my life in every area where I do have some control.

Sometimes the heart makes decisions the mind cannot, and though we know that the heart is deceitful above all things, we know that at rare moments of stress and profound loss it can be purged pure by suffering.

There's such a thing as trying too hard, he told himself. It causes constipation of the mind. But such admonishments did no good. He was still as blocked as a pipe full of concrete.

pace the corridor back and forth until I wear the edge off my nerves or just collapse unconscious from exhaustion

I avoid contemporary TV...politics...art: all too frantic, fevered, and frivolous, or else angry, bitter.

What does worry accomplish, except to breed more worry.

Tension, apprehension, and dissension

It was human nature to obsess on negatives, to worry the smallest of sparks into infernos.

What does worry accomplish except to breed more worry?