Quotes About Stress

Extremism, racism, nativism, and isolationism, driven by fear of the unknown, tend to spike in periods of economic and social stress

Extremism, racism, nativism, and isolationism, driven by fear of the unknown, tend to spike in periods of economic and social stress—a period like our own.

Tony said just being here can be enough to turn someone crazy.

The people we were destroying were no longer just people like Jonah: public figures who had committed actual transgressions. They were private individuals who really hadn't done anything much wrong. Ordinary humans were being forced to learn damage control, like corporations that had committed PR disasters. It was very stressful.

Free time is death to the anxious, and thank goodness I don't have any of it right now.

It has been eleven days, Stephen, eleven fucking days! Eleven! The presidency is supposed to age the president, not the public.

remembered I had chloral in my purse – I take it all the time, for my nerves.

And maybe this was what craziness was: an emergency valve to relieve the pressure of unbearable anxiety.

It's something to be anxious about, Manley said, if you want to be anxious about something.

the weekly thirty minutes of sexual stress was a chronic but low-grade discomfort, like the humidity in Florida

How like a mental illness a nation's economy was!

ticklers bearing down on Kim Perkins, David Goya pissed off at them.

It wasn't for children, seventh grade. You could read the stress of even entering the building in the postures of the teachers, the security guards. Nobody could relax in such a racial and hormonal disaster area.

it's not how much you work, but how working so much makes you feel that counts. And how I felt was iserable.

T]he accumulation of things not spelled out, not properly articulated, may result in neurosis.

Flux heightens is into knots of staid tension.

Listen, kid, you shouldn't work so bloody hard. Sometimes it's a goos idea just to let go and scream a bit." Let go she thought. What happens if you find out you keep on falling?

It's the job, she thought. I work too hard. That's why my thoughts go round and round at night, like a hamster on a squeaking wheel.

But I feel a sense of peace when I'm working. Happiness, almost. It's when I'm not working I feel uneasy.

Most people use music as a couch; they want to be pillowed on it, relaxed and consoled for the stress of daily living. But serious music was never meant to be soporific.

They use music as a couch; they want to be pillowed on it, relaxed and consoled for the stress of daily living. But serious music was never meant to be used as a soporific. Contemporary music, especially, is created to wake you up, not put you to sleep. It is meant to stir and excite you, to move you—it may even exhaust you.

Well, you know what they say: Maybe money doesn't bring happiness, but it sure enough quiets the nerves.

Remember to Breathe!

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.