“I have had a number of threatening letters each week, some telling me the actual time and method of my death, and I don't like it.”
Anxious feeling
Anxious Quotes — page 47 of 107
“The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril.”
“We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out another very often.”
“To be constantly changing one's plans isn't decision at all-it's indecision.”
“I've stopped reading the comments below news articles and on gossip blogs because those are the ones that'll ruin your day in a second.”
“My whole academic career was totally out of Jewish anxiety, and issues surrounding achievement and adequacy.”
“I am not strictly speaking mad, for my mind is absolutely normal in the intervals, and even more so than before. But during the attacks it is terrible - and then I lose consciousness of everything. But that spurs me on to work and to seriousness, as a miner who is always in danger makes haste in what he does.”
“When the mind is in a state of uncertainty the smallest impulse directs it to either side.”
“Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil.”
“...she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.”
“Listening (had there been any one to listen) from the upper rooms of the empty house only gigantic chaos streaked with lightning could have been heard tumbling and tossing, as the winds and waves disported themselves like the amorphous bulks of leviathans whose brows are pierced by no light of reason, and mounted one on top of another, and lunged and plunged in the darkness or the daylight (for night and day, month and year ran shapelessly together) in idiot games, until it seemed as if the universe were battling and tumbling, in brute confusion and wanton lust aimlessly by itself.”
“My mind turned by anxiety, or other cause, from its scrutiny of blank paper, is like a lost child–wandering the house, sitting on the bottom step to cry.”
“Lack of sleep makes me less productive. I need a good seven or eight hours a night.”
“I think women today are so overwhelmed and overtaxed.”
“Christmas is more stressful with present buying and making sure everyone gets included, but Thanksgiving is really not that. I don't ever really get stressed out about the food.”
“I've always been freaked out in deep open water if there's a potential of sharks around.”
“There is simply too much to think about.”
“But just as it sometimes happens that the most temperate people, who have never acquired the habit of drinking alcohol, or even a taste for it, are tormented by the fear that somehow or other they will one day find themselves drunk, so Isabelle perpetually feared that she might be betrayed into an impulsive act that was destructive to such order as reason had imposed on life. Therefore she was forever running her faculty of analysis over in her mind with the preposterous zeal of an adolescent running a razor over his beardless chin.”
“The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money.”
“I guess the main source of stress for me is the stress I put on myself.”