anxiety quotes

I get nervous for everything – literally everything.

I’m always worried about everything. Like spiders.

Worry – a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

I’m terrified of losing my voice.

There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.

We can fear things into existence. Fear looks into the future and imagines the worst that can happen.

What keeps me up at night? Anxiety. Anxiety, the inability to go to sleep, it’s quite literally that.

Younger people have greatest fears. Why is that? Because they don’t know the plot. They don’t know their own individual plot… they don’t know what’s going to happen to them.

Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.

People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don’t necessarily merit fear.

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.

I write because writing is something that I have to do. And it doesn’t matter whether people like it or not. When I write, I feel the pressure and anxiety that come with taking an empty piece of paper and trying to fill it with something from your own consciousness.

I’ve suffered through depression and anxiety my entire life.

I won’t touch on risky, because that’s subjective. People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don’t necessarily merit fear.

Dread, which is closely related to fear, steals the ability to enjoy ordinary life and makes people anxious about the future. It keeps them from looking forward to the next day, the next month, or the next decade.

It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there’s nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It’s a death trap.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

I couldn’t talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching.

Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.

As a rule, men worry more about what they can’t see than about what they can.

I’m kind of claustrophobic… It’s not even like enclosed spaces. It’s like I hate being stuck in one band, you know? Just being stuck is the biggest drag, for fear that, you know, just that you can’t get out.

Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.

If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

Like the experience of warfare, the endurance of grave or terminal illness involves long periods of tedium and anxiety, punctuated by briefer interludes of stark terror and pain.

Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.

Seeing Pax get extra-nervous about which shirt he is going to wear when he meets Aung San Suu Kyi, I get very moved. He rightfully doesn’t get nervous going to a movie premiere; he gets nervous going to meet her.

I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything – diseases, spiders… and people getting tired of me.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

Anxiety and spiritual searching have been consistent themes with me, and that figures into my worldview. But I tend to make my songs sound like relationship songs.

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

I’m going to get an MRI to find out whether I have claustrophobia.

I have a little bit of PTSD when I hear a big bang or a loud noise or keys – I jump out of my skin.

Dread of night. Dread of not-night.

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.

Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we’ve always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.

The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

I wouldn’t say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I’d like my fear emotion to be less because it’s very distracting and fries my nervous system.

If I panic, everyone else panics.

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

If I feel anxious every time someone is staring at me, well, I can’t control what they stare at, but my reaction is, I’m just not going to go outside the house. I’m going to stay in and chill. And when I do go out, I understand what comes along with that.

Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day’s own trouble be sufficient for the day.

A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

When I’m nervous, I stutter, and I had to keep stopping and starting.

I’m so nervous. I’ve always been nervous, ever since I was a kid.