Quotes about Anxiety

I have never once feared the devil, but I tremble every time I enter the pulpit.

Worry is irrelevant. It alters nothing. When was the last time you solved a problem by worrying about it?

No one can pray and worry at the same time.

You can't walk in faith and fear at the same time.

Every time I surrender to stress, aren't I advertising the unreliability of God?

No one can pray and worry at the same time. When we worry, we aren't praying. When we pray, we aren't worrying.

I'm currently in the middle of a depression. I couldn't really tell you what set it off, but I think it stems from my cowardice, which confronts me at every turn.

Sleep makes the silence and the terrible fear go by more quickly, helps pass the time, since it's impossible to kill.

I'm afraid my common sense, which was in short supply to begin with, wil be used up too quickly and I won't have any left by the time the war is over.

November 8th, 1943 At night in bed I see myself alone in a dungeon, without Father and Mother. Or I'm roaming the streets, or the Annex is on fire, or they come in the middle of the night to take us away and I crawl under my bed in desperation. I see everything as if it were actually taking place. And to think it might all happen soon! (**good metaphor use later on for English)

I'm probably just as good a mother as the next repressed, obsessive-compulsive paranoiac.

And my fear of failure has been lifelong and deep. If you are what you do- and I think my parents may have accidentally given me this idea- and you do poorly, what then? It's over; you're wiped out. All those prophecies you heard in the dark have come true, and people can see the real you, see what a schmendrick you are, what a fraud.