“It's very embarrassing to be put on the spot.”
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Anxious Quotes — page 62 of 107
“This is what I see, and what troubles me. I look on all sides, and everywhere I see nothing but obscurity. Nature offers me nothing that is not a matter of doubt and disquiet.”
“I had spent about three months where I couldn't sing at all, so that was anxiety-provoking. But after that, I went back out. I sang for two hours in my garage one day to see if I had a voice.”
“I am uncomfortable with heights, I'm scared of the dark and I am scared of big crowds.”
“I have a lot of mental issues that I just am so fearful of things, which I shouldn't be, right? Scared of heights. Scared of buildings falling on me. Scared of the dark. Scared of crowds. Those are my biggest issues. I'm just scared of people. It's just - in general.”
“Our psychological reality, which lies below the surface, frightens us because it endlessly surprises us and drives us in a direction which society's rules and organizations define as wrong or dangerous.”
“The anxiety we have for the figure we cut, for our personage, is constantly cropping out. We are showing off and are often more concerned with making a display than with living. Whoever feels observed observes himself.”
“It's hard because you want to be able to just, okay, focus your energy on trying to win the match, but you need to then have tactics as to how you're going to deal with how you're feeling.”
“Global warming is one of those things, not like an earthquake where there's a big bang and you say, 'Oh, my God, this is really, has hit us.' It creeps up on you. ... Half a degree temperature difference from one year to the next, a little bit of rise of the ocean, a little bit of melting of the glaciers, and then all of a sudden it is too late to do something about it.”
“"What is good for a bootless bene?" With these dark words begins my tale; And their meaning is, Whence can comfort spring When prayer is of no avail?”
“Most of us have to think worst-case scenario.”
“The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-Boat peril...It did not take the form of flaring battles and glittering achievements, it manifested itself through statistics, diagrams, and curves unknown to the nation, incomprehensible to the public.”
“There's nothing wrong with me...except acute chronic fear.”
“Father, I am seeking: I am hesitant and uncertain, but will you, O God, watch over each step of mine and guide me.”
“There are no safe rooms, no safe truths, no safe secrets to tell.”
“I think I've developed, as many people do, this sense of, 'Don't say the wrong thing, or else people will point at you and laugh.'”
“I'm always worried about everything. Like spiders.”
“If there is any danger in the present weather, in the name of God, Monsieur, wait until spring”
“While the mind is in doubt, it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.”
“It had a very long pendulum, and the pendulum swung with a slow tick-tock that set his teeth on edge, because it was the the kind of delibrate, annoying ticking that wanted to make it abundantly clear that every tick and every tock was stripping another second off your life.”