Quotes about Anxiety

I don't understand why people say that I am full of courage. I feel terribly nervous.

I didn't realise how devastating my behavior could be - looking back, I'm very embarrassed. I just buckled under the anxiety.

But we are frightened at much that is not strictly conceivable.

I was nervous before races. Every race was not perfect... Every morning when I woke up the first words weren't always, 'Oh, I'm so excited.'

Jesus's disciples have faith, but their worry proves the weakness of their faith. Great faith comes not by looking inward, to the believing self, but by looking upward, to God. By faith we stop thinking like pagans, filled with anxiety about food and clothing. Pagans, thinking like orphans, worry. Disciples, thinking like children, relax.

It's a tough thing-you get in a situation where you feel you have to be perfect all the time and it sucks.

For some time I lived in fear of receiving a letter signed 'S. Gollum'. That would have been more difficult to deal with.

And that almost everyone was struggling to wake up, to be loved, and not feel so afraid all the time. That's what the cars, degrees, booze, and drugs were about.

Most everyone I know feels frazzled and overwhelmed most of the time.

We're living in a fearful time. Since 9/11 people have become more afraid than before, because of terrorism. There's a lot of confusion about evil, where it's all coming from.

You have to understand you cannot have faith and fear at the same time; you can only have one or the other.

We're hallucinating. And that's what this world is: a mass hallucination, where fear seems more real than love. Fear is an illusion. Our craziness, paranoia, anxiety and trauma are literally all imagined.