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Quotes About Stress

This fear makes some things in your body. Your body is so sensitive to this fear and suddenly when you start having this fear, it's a mess and you cannot get out of this fear.
~ Dolores Cannon
I understand what's it like to work all week and on Friday night just want to go and leave your brain at the door, buy some popcorn and be thrilled by something.
~ Don Cheadle
A constant state of frustration is actually a subtle form of hostility rooted in anger at other people, at situations, and at circumstances.
~ Don Colbert
it is the ability to state a goal and reach it, through the efforts of other people, and satisfy those whose judgment one respects, under conditions of stress.
~ Don M. Frick
Human beings in stressful relationships will frequently behave in ways that contradict or even reverse their own most certain expectations.
~ Donald Antrim
my insides were ulcerous from coffee and terror.
~ Donald Antrim
In this century theres been much stress placed not upon what we know but on knowing that our methods are themselves questionableour Song of Songs is the Uncertainty Principle.
~ Donald Barthelme
If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 40 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some of whom didn't want to be there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence for nine months, then he might have some conception of the classroom teacher's job.
~ Donald D. Quinn
A terrified man can have an accident much more readily and much more quickly than a calm man.
~ Donald E. Westlake
The family seems to have two predominant functions to provide warmth and love in time of need and to drive each other insane.
~ Donald G. Smith
Every time I write, say, or think "lung cancer," I pick up a Pall Mall to calm myself.
~ Donald Hall
Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life. Either you laugh and suffer, or you got your beans or brains on the ceiling.
~ Wavy Gravy
I am not superwoman. The reality of my daily life is that I am juggling a lot of balls in the air? And sometimes some of the balls get dropped.
~ Geoffrey Blainey
Worrying is a necessary part of life.
~ Mary Tyler Moore
Once you learn to remain calm under the stressful circumstances of a fight, you will have no trouble remaining calm under the stressful circumstances of life.
~ Ryron Gracie
What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other's shoulders and kicking each other's teeth in. It's not a pleasant situation.
~ Terence McKenna
This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
~ Matthew Arnold
Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.
~ John Lennon
My life has been a series of emergencies.
~ Lana Turner
Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life.
~ Wavy Gravy
Very few things in life are worthy of the kind of emotional distress we put ourselves through.
~ John Mayer
When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.
~ Mark Twain
The day my child tries a celery is the most stressful day of my life.
~ Ariana Grande