Quotes about Anxiety

If I'd been older I would've asked what it was right away, but I didn't because I wanted to postpone the moment when I would know what it was. In stories I'd read, I'd come across the words nameless dread. They'd just been words then, but now that's exactly what I felt.

Reign of terror, they used to say, but terror does not exactly reign. Instead it paralyzes. Hence the unnatural quiet.

It's simple,' Kat told them. 'You bombard them with images of what they ought to be, and you make them feel grotty for being the way they are. You're working with the gap between reality and perception. That's why you have to hit them with something new, something they've never seen before, something they aren't. Nothing sells like anxiety.

When push comes to shove, only one's own nightmares are of any interest or significance.

They say that a nightmare can frighten you to death, that your heart can literally stop. Will this bad dream kill me, one of these nights? Surely it will take more than that.

And if I talk to him, I'll say something wrong, give something away. I can feel it coming, a betrayal of myself.

The bathrobe was magenta, a colour that still makes him anxious whenever he sees it.

Her life began to seem long. Her adrenalin was running out. Soon she would be thirty, and all she could see ahead was more of the same.

What men are most afraid of is not lions, not snakes, not the dark, not women. Not any more. What men are most afraid of is the body of another man. Men's bodies are the most dangerous things on earth.

Careful for nothing, prayerful for everything, thankful for anything.

Thanksgiving is worry's kryptonite.

Are stress and worry evidence of a soul too lazy, too undisciplined, to keep gaze fixed on God?