“I played maybe one and a half games of Little League. The whole atmosphere of anxious parents and more anxious children was just too much for me.”
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Anxious Quotes — page 95 of 107
“I wish I wasn't so technically challenged, because it puts you at a distinct disadvantage. I wish I could figure out a way to get more up to speed.”
“When we speak, we want to say something sweet, but we don't say something sweet because something is ordering us from deep down to say something unkind. We want to open our hearts to people, but we can't do it, because we are being ordered around by the sufferings we have concealed deep in our consciousness.”
“We fear that this moment will end, that we won't get what we need, that we will lose what we love, or that we will not be safe. Often, our biggest fear is the knowledge that one day our bodies will cease functioning. So even when we are surrounded by all the conditions for happiness, our joy is not complete.”
“Men, in whatever anxiety they may be, if they are men, sometimes indulge in relaxation.”
“I have a problem with procrastination. I have a great deal of difficulty deciding what to wear. It's a woman thing.”
“I have hour spurts when I feel fine and I can walk normal and stuff, other hours, I'm wobbling. I feel like there's somebody behind me kicking my legs out from underneath me. The whole tumor symptom thing is crazy. It's unpredictable. It really messes with your life.”
“I don't know what's wrong with me, but like, the second I stop working, I have a panic attack, so it's good for me to be thinking of projects ahead of time and lining things up.”
“I think Black intellectuals see too deeply. That's the problem. It's a cause of anxiety, because we see things differently.”
“I feel like it's been important for me to use my own personal experiences with food and money to help people to not feel ashamed. I felt so much shame about my own experiences.”
“We always want to change the channel in our minds because we don't like what's going on. It's uncomfortable.”
“I get very antsy when I'm not occupied.”
“I don't know why I write. The honest answer is that I don't have an answer. I wouldn't die if I couldn't write fiction. Actually keel over and die - it's unlikely. But quite quickly writing has come to feel like the only thing I really know how to do. And I go a bit stir crazy if I don't write more or less every day. But that makes writing sound like a mood-regulator, a way to regulate anxiety or depression, and it doesn't really come down to that.”
“When I receive a box of my books, my impulse is to hide rather than display them. It always makes me very anxious that they send so many copies, because I have to think of lots of different places to hide them.”
“The ground we stand on looks solid enough, but if something happens it can drop right out from under you.”
“If a person remains tense for a long time he might not notice it himself, but it’s like his nerves are a piece of rubber that has been stretched out. It’s hard to go back to the original shape.”
“This uneasiness comes over me from time to time, and I feel as if I've somehow been pieced together from two different puzzles.”
“I’m just kinda tired. Like a monkey in the rain.”
“The worst thoughts usually strike in the dead of the night.”
“You know what it’s like when you’re trying to fall asleep and it only makes you more wide awake?”