“But the less a man knows about the past and the present the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.”
Anxious feeling
Anxious Quotes — page 24 of 107
“I panic every time I put out a record. I think every artist does.”
“I'm a little bit awkward on Twitter; like, I'm never really sure what to say.”
“I guess I was a little bit nervous, because there seemed to be so much secrecy with Ben [Stiller] wanting to make sure that it was a surprise when we walked out on the [Valentino] runway. I remember showing up at Place Vendôme and doing the fitting and seeing the pajamas that I was going to wear - which I like very much - and seeing Ben arrive kind of in disguise.”
“Anxiety is the illness of our age. We worry about ourselves, our family, our friends, our work, and our state of the world. If we allow worry to fill our hearts, sooner or later we will get sick.”
“To be interested in something is to be involved in what is essentially a stressful relationship with that thing, to suffer anxiety on its behalf.”
“It is necessary to sleep upon the pillow of doubt.”
“Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.”
“Of all the creatures in the world that really frighten me - the hyena in Africa, the great white shark - leopard seals are near the top of the list. They're killers. If my team spots one, they'll pull me out of the water.”
“I am scared of being broke and famous. I think that would be the biggest curse.”
“Fear is not of the unknown, but of loss of the known.”
“How do you just stop being terrified of getting left behind and ending up by yourself forever and not meaning anything to the world?”
“Worrying is trying to figure out what to do to save yourself rather than trusting in God for deliverance.”
“People dislike uncertainty so much that they will impose an order on it even when it doesn't exist.”
“People don't like uncertainty, and their minds are tools for making sense of the world, even when the world is senseless.”
“I have always at least, ever since I can remember had a kind of longing for death.”
“When you can no longer feel the life that you are, you are likely to try to fill up your life with things.”
“The voice in your head also creates a huge amount of problems that aren't really problems. They're just things that haven't happened yet, things that could happen tomorrow or next week. Listening to unreal problems has another name: worrying. That's what the voice in your head does. It what-ifs. It frets. It agonizes, and you can no longer sense the joy of life.”
“For years my life alternated between depression and acute anxiety. One night I woke up in a state of dread and intense fear, more intense than I had ever experienced before. Life seemed meaningless, barren, hostile. It became so unbearable that suddenly the thought came into my mind, I cannot live with myself any longer.”
“Anxiety was born in the very same moment as mankind. And since we will never be able to master it, we will have to learn to live with it—just as we have learned to live with storms.”