Quotes About Stress

Un des rares avantages du célibat est de ne pas avoir à souffrir de scènes de ménage

I know compulsive napping sounds like a contradiction in terms but it is not. I also call them panic naps. A panic nap usually comes on with an exacerbated declaration of: "Fuck, I gotta … goddamnit … I can't think about … shit, I'm tired.

I always think about suicide because I find it relaxing.

and systemic inflammation also result from not sleeping well.

When you or your baby becomes overtired, the body is stressed. Chemical changes then occur to fight the fatigue, and this interferes with the ability to easily fall asleep and stay asleep—that is, the baby gets a second wind.

Interestingly, a part of the cortisol secretion rhythm is related to the sleep/wake rhythm, and another part is coupled to the body temperature rhythm.

The same response that once gave a weary hunter the strength to press on after his wounded prey now powers the tired businesswoman laboring to meet a deadline. But it's also the reason why overtired children appear "wired," unable to fall asleep easily or stay asleep.

rejoicing in a peace which brings only an increase of anxiety,...

In my most desperate moments, I have never conceived of anything more horrible than a law office.

What do you have to be stressed about?" the normies might have said, if I ever talked about these things with normal people. "You have a family, a house, a car, a good job. Just deal with it!" As if I could simply do that. As if I chose this. As if I looked at the options available to me and they were clearly labeled "Perseverance" and "Freaking the Fuck Out All the Time" and calmly said, "Mmm, yes, I select option B.

it makes sense when you think about the confluence of puberty hormones, stress from academics and the emergence of primitive appalling forms of dating, depression starts in your junior high.

Having a brain spinning like that, having a brain bottoming out like that, carrying around that psychic baggage all the time—it wears you out.

Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.

We rush through our days in such stress and intensity, as if we were here to stay and the serious project of the world depended on us. We worry and grow anxious; we magnify trivia until they become important enough to control our lives. Yet all the time, we have forgotten that we are but temporary sojourners on the surface of a strange planet spinning slowly in the infinite night of the cosmos.

Researchers have found there is simply no correlation between hurry or Type-A behavior and productivity.

Kidd could feel an incipient hernia when he even thought about that night. . . .

You seem tense," Kahurangi said to them. "Of course I'm tense," Niamh snapped back. "We have a stupid plan." "You're just saying this because it's my plan." "I'm not just saying it because it's your plan, and also, yes.

A fourth part of his brain was saying, This is the part where you run and scream a lot. He was listening to the fourth part.

No more in life would that face be free of care.

Isn't it funny, my two pet horrors, incapacity and ledgers and they both hit at once. I write columns of figures in big ledgers and after about three hours of it I am so stupefied that I can't get down to my own work. I can see very readily how office workers get the way they are. There is something soddenly hypnotic about the columns of figures.

Pornography and its slightly more demure cousin, advertising, present an ideal world, and the claims of the ideal strain and stress imperfect reality.

Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.

There are always waves on the water. Sometimes they are big, sometimes they are small, and sometimes they are almost imperceptible. The water's waves are churned up by the winds, which come and go and vary in direction and intensity, just as do the winds of stress and change in our lives, which stir up the waves in our minds.

So it can be particularly helpful to keep in mind from moment to moment that it is not so much the stressors in our lives but how we see them and what we do with them, how we are in relationship to them, that determines how much we are at their mercy.