“Growing up is scary because it happens without you knowing it.”
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Anxious Quotes — page 16 of 107
“I am unable to describe exactly what is the matter with me; now and then there are horrible fits of anxiety, apparently without cause, or otherwise a feeling of emptiness and fatigue in the head.”
“To talk about balance, it's easier to talk about what's out of balance. And I think anytime that you have any disease, and disease meaning lack of ease, lack of flow... dis-ease. So any time there's disease, you're out of balance, whether it's jealousy, anger, greed, anxiety, fear.”
“Rather than risk starting their own businesses, most people seek safer environments, preferring job security to freedom and a steady paycheck to greater wealth. Their fear of failing is greater than the joy of freedom.”
“I am very self-conscious a lot of the time.”
“... you looked around and saw everybody either married or busy and happy and thinking and being creative, and you felt scared, sick, lethargic, worst of all, not wanting to cope. You saw visions of yourself in a straightjacket, and a drain on the family, murdering your mother in actuality, killing the edifice of love and respect built up over the years in the hearts of other people.”
“Those who are certain of the outcome can afford to wait, and wait without anxiety.”
“Worry is interest paid before it's due.”
“Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.”
“Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.”
“No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it.”
“To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.”
“I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within.”
“Doubt … is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness.”
“If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it's the light of the oncoming train.”
“The source of anxiety lies in the future. If you can keep the future out of mind, you can forget your worries.”
“You get in before sunrise and you get out after sunset and you go home, eat and collapse. While you're aware of the ratings, you aren't prepared for the response of the fans.”
“Whenever you become anxious or stressed, outer purpose has taken over, and you lost sight of your inner purpose. You have forgotten that your state of consciousness is primary, all else secondary.”
“I think the idea of getting out of a traffic jam and getting out of work each week and going and doing all this stuff would be really exhausting.”
“I find it hard to take chances that might mean making bad decisions.”