Anxious Quotes

“Children who are not encouraged to do, to try, to explore, to master, and to risk failure, often feel helpless and inadequate. Over-controlled by anxious, fearful parents, these children often become anxious and fearful themselves. This makes it difficult for them to mature. Many never outgrow the need for ongoing parental guidance and control. As a result, their parents continue to invade, manipulate, and frequently dominate their lives.”
― Susan Forward, Toxic Parents: Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life

“Fear and anxiety affect decision making in the direction of more caution and risk aversion... Traumatized individuals pay more attention to cues of threat than other experiences, and they interpret ambiguous stimuli and situations as threatening (Eyesenck, 1992), leading to more fear-driven decisions. In people with a dissociative disorder, certain parts are compelled to focus on the perception of danger. Living in trauma-time, these dissociative parts immediately perceive the present as being "just like" the past and "emergency" emotions such as fear, rage, or terror are immediately evoked, which compel impulsive decisions to engage in defensive behaviors (freeze, flight, fight, or collapse). When parts of you are triggered, more rational and grounded parts may be overwhelmed and unable to make effective decisions.”
― Suzette Boon, Coping with Trauma-Related Dissociation: Skills Training for Patients and Therapists

“Her life was a series of zigzags. At nineteen, she was anxious.”
― Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt

“A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the innumerable instances where one would have experienced pain.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“how anxiously I yearned for those I had forsaken.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

“At that time, I well remember whatever could excite - certain accidents of the weather, for instance, were almost dreaded by me, because they woke the being I was always lulling, and stirred up a craving cry I could not satisfy. One night a thunder-storm broke; a sort of hurricane shook us in our beds: the Catholics rose in panic and prayed to their saints. As for me, the tempest took hold of me with tyranny: I was roughly roused and obliged to live. I got up and dressed myself, and creeping outside the basement close by my bed, sat on its ledge, with my feet on the roof of a lower adjoining building. It was wet, it was wild, it was pitch dark. Within the dormitory they gathered round the night-lamp in consternation, praying loud. I could not go in: too resistless was the delight of staying with the wild hour, black and full of thunder, pealing out such an ode as language never delivered to man - too terribly glorious, the spectacle of clouds, split and pierced by white and blinding bolts.”
― Charlotte Brontë

“When you're scared, you stay as you are!”
― Stephen Richards

“Don't get your balls crossed about it.”
― John Irving, Last Night in Twisted River

“Empty complaints are the sources of everyday failure, but not the problem being complained about. Problems are solvable; but not with complaints. A complainer is just an explainer of problems!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

“We live in anxious times, my love,
anxiety-producing times.
It doesn't mean we have to be anxious,
but if we've got it,
we've got to find some way to relieve it.”
― Shellen Lubin

“Calm your heart, anxious one. Let me heal what is broken.”
― Katherine Webber, Twin Crowns

“Anxiety always originates from a lie. All lies, whether self generated or accepted from another person, will resonate as a pendulum swinging to and fro as a reminder of an inconsistency with truth and impeccability. The further the lie is carried, the more the intensity of anxiety builds. The feeling may begin as unease, building to angst, translating to anxiety, panic, and even dread. Ultimately, anxiety creates stagnancy. What's the solution? Speak the truth even if it scares you. Be authentic.”
― Deborah Bravandt

“The damn organ between his ribs continued to pound relentlessly. He cursed again, gripping the windowsill until his knuckles turned white, but his heart wouldn't slow.
As if insisting on reminding him that he had one.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain

“Probably, as in all metaphysical questions, both are true: Life is or has meaning and meaninglessness. I cherish the anxious
hope that meaning will preponderate and win the battle.”
― C.G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections

“My particular brand of anxiety often sought to corrupt the innocence of the everyday into the delinquency of my daydreams.”
― Sean Norris, Heaven and Hurricanes

“Because they can be lost, things such as success and fame—unlike things such as intelligence and wisdom—are accompanied by anxiety.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Is it "stress" or "anxiety?"

Stress = natural response to present danger
Anxiety = the fear of losing something of having less of something in the future

Stress = Present Danger
Anxiety = Perceived Future Danger”
― Matt Purcell, Life Hacks For Mindful Living

“When I read, I read desperately because I was desperate — desperate to exchange my own anxious thoughts for the calming thoughts of the book’s narrator. I read like that so, for the length of each book, I could be transported out of my body, out of my mind, and into another world — a world where I didn’t have to be me.”
― Sean Norris, Heaven and Hurricanes

“Safety is a sensual state. You cannot feel sensual unless you’re feeling safe.”
― Lebo Grand

“Putting caffeine in our body puts us in the shoes of the insane.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“There is no need to be anxious for nothing but to cast every care upon the Lord because he cares.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Whenever they feel themselves growing anxious, breathe in energy. Breathe out negativity. Breathe in relaxation. Breathe out stress.”
― Gary Mack, Mind Gym: An Athlete's Guide to Inner Excellence

“With every goal, wish, or plan we deem important, we invite anxiety.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“We should always strive to understand what makes us feel bad... before we feel bad, if possible. As well as what makes us feel good... although that could be the hardest thing of all.”
― Alessandro Baronciani, When Everything Turned Blue

“Perhaps life’s simplest and most frequent mistake is to take who we are for granted in our anxious anticipation of who we might be. He loves us as we are. Why can we not rejoice in that love? Can you imagine, for a moment, what would happen if we were to stop trying to find love in all the wrong places and start spending our efforts trying to cherish His love for us? I was finished being someone who called myself by His name, yet turned to all the empty things of this world to satisfy my innermost needs. I was through fabricating solutions of my own devising, crafting makeshift concoctions that never hit the mark.”
― Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose

“Please, no stabbing. All of that makes me anxious.'

I crossed my arms. 'No promises.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“Some days I donʼt exist. My bed becomes a casket.”
― Juansen Dizon, I Am The Architect of My Own Destruction

“I finally know why my heart
beats faster when you're not around
I guess it's hoping you'll hear it,
'cause you know; it's beating for you.”
― Ariana

“I'm standing in a timeless place, between a past that has abandoned me and a future that scares me.”
― Alicia M. Rodriguez

“Learning to cast your cares on God can be a struggle at first, but it is a pathway to a God-fearing and eternal mindset. When you fail to cast your cares, you waste time worrying and feeling anxious.”
― Richard J Nilsen, CAST: 1 Peter 5:7