“Wandering seemed no more than the happiness of an anxious man.”
Anxious feeling
Anxious Quotes — page 56 of 107
“I went to vote once, but I got too scared. I couldn't decide whom to vote for.”
“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.”
“There is fear hanging in the air of the sleeping halls, and the air of the streets. Fear walks through the city, fear without name, without shape. All men feel it and none dare speak.”
“Any time we have projects that we haven't begun or completed, they drain energy.”
“Today we often use deadlines—real and imaginary—to imprison ourselves.”
“About five years ago, I fainted from exhaustion. I hit my head on my desk. I broke my cheekbone and got four stitches on my right eye. It started me on this journey of rediscovering sleep and balance and integrating my life. I think everyone should stop and reassess their lives before you hit your head on your desk.”
“So great becomes the fear of losing what we have that many of us rush back to hide under the temporary shelter of convention rather than follow the path of self-discovery wherever it might lead. Given adequate time and sufficient fear, we may hide so long that we hardly notice we're slowly suffocating.”
“There is nothing like becoming a mom to fill you with fear.”
“I don't dare do anything anymore, 'cause I'm afraid it's not allowed.”
“It's really hard because you only have that split-second to determine what to do. It's crazy. I try my best to use clear judgment and make clear decisions, but a lot of those collisions are unavoidable. You're either going to let them catch it and take a step to see what's going on, or there's going to be a collision.”
“In fact, in my adult lifetime, I don't think I've ever seen people as fearful economically as they are right now.”
“I do a lot of public speaking and presentations and I'll always start with a self-deprecating joke to make everybody feel comfortable with my size because there can be hang-ups and anxieties.”
“Anything can go away. There's no such thing as safety and security. You can do things that give you the illusion of safety and security, but there's really no such thing.”
“a fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he's already got. He'll cling to trouble he's used to before he'll risk a change. Yes. A man will talk about how he'd like to escape from living folks. But it's the dead folks that do him the damage. It's the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.”
“Madness is confusion of levels of fact. . . . Madness is not seeing visions but confusing levels.”
“How I hated schools, and what a life of anxiety I lived there. I counted the hours to the end of every term, when I should return home.”
“I was born with a nervous breakdown.”
“Drink this," she says. "What is it?" my throat feels swollen. I swallow hard. "What's going to happen?" "Can't tell you that. Just trust me." I press air from my lungs and tip the contents of the vial into my mouth. My eyes close.”
“Reality in strong doses frightens.”