Anxiety Quotes

Left unaddressed, chronic anxiety can disrupt many aspects of development, including a child's capacity to learn and ability to connect socially as well as the opportunity for the brain to grow and make connections. In time, children with high levels of anxiety are more likely to face depression, turn to substance use, become less likely to finish high school and may therefore have a harder time keeping a job or managing financially.

~ Michele Kambolis

Half of the time, the Holy Ghost tries to warn us about certain people that come into our life. The other half of the time he tries to tell us that the sick feeling we get in a situation is not the other person’s fault, rather it is our own hang-ups. A life filled with bias, hatred, judgment, insecurity, fear, delusion and self-righteousness can cloud the soul of anyone you meet. Our job is never to assume,instead it is to listen, communicate, ask questions then ask more, until we know the true depth of someone’s spirit.

~ Shannon L. Alder

You’re saying, “What the hell am I gonna do with her?” You’re saying, “Shit, did she take her pills?” You’re saying, “Once upon a time, I used to have a little girl.

~ Shannon Celebi

I really want to believe that when our Quiet Waters kids wake up in the middle of the night, scared, they’ll remember being in their bunks with John and Kate and Whit and me right there protecting them,” he said. “I hope we gave them that sense of belonging because I know there’ll be times in their lives when grasping at those bonds could mean the difference between making it and not.

~ Laura Anderson Kurk

I never want a girl to lose all hope that her life can’t completely turn around, even if she feels that she is at the edge, standing on one foot, and ready to say goodbye.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

Ironically, the worship of of death as a strategy for coping with our underlying fear of death's power does not truly give us solace. It is deeply anxiety producing. The more we watch spectacles of death, of random violence and cruelty, the more afraid we become in our daily lives.

~ Bell Hooks

The search for Nirvana, like the search for Utopia or the end of history or the classless society, is ultimately a futile and dangerous one. It involves, if it does not necessitate, the sleep of reason. There is no escape from anxiety and struggle.

~ Christopher Hitchens

Its little wonder anxiety, depression and other mental illness is at such a high point at this time in the world; people have little control over the mental capacities, of their thoughts, perceptions, feelings and emotions. People never get a moments silence from the constant bombardment and when they do they don’t know how to manage their thoughts so the endless barrage of noise simply continues giving them no time or space for clarity.

~ Evan Sutter

... rejoicing in a peace which brings only an increase of anxiety,...

~ Marcel Proust

it does seemthe more we drinkthe better the wordsgo.

~ Charles Bukowski

The pleasure of living and the pleasure of the orgasm are identical. Extreme orgasm anxiety forms the basis of the general fear of life.

~ Wilhelm Reich

Half of life is lost in charming others.The other half is lost in going through anxieties caused by others.Leave this play. You have played enough.

~ Rumi

Embrace the anxiety of confronting your emotions because it’s often the emotional hitting of rock bottom that ignites our resolve to get back to the top.

~ Sam Owen

When you're anxious, don't immediately trust your automatic thoughts because oftentimes these thoughts are irrational. Thoughts are not facts. They're just thoughts and sometimes don't need to be given so much importance.

~ John Tsilimparis

...the higher the expectations about unselected alternatives, the lower the level of satisfaction with the chosen good.

~ Michael R. Solomon

Caring for others tends to be the first cut when we review our personal time budget. It does not necessarily fulfill the goals of my ambition; it will not pave the way for my success; it takes away from my own depleted emotional resources. It is an imposition in every way. To some of us, it is an inconvenience from which we unashamedly run. We have become experts in maintaining a grand scope of friendships and amateurs in genuine intimacy and care. Unwittingly, we have sacrificed everything on the altar of self-sufficiency—only to discover that we have sold our souls to isolation.

~ Sandy Oshiro Rosen

Century after century, the belief that an individual’s physical health was independent of his or her emotional health has so dominated medical thought that there has even been open contempt for anyone who would dare to claim that a person’s physical well-being is the sum of its internal and external influences.

~ Sandy Oshiro Rosen

Community is about sharing my life, about allowing the chaos of another’s circumstances to infringe on mine, about permitting myself to be known without constraint, about resigning myself to needing others.

~ Sandy Oshiro Rosen

At first, when a child meets something that scares him, the fear grows, like a wave. But when he goes into the water and swims - gets used to the water - the wave grows small. If we pull the child away when the wave is high, he never sees that, never learns how to swim and remains afraid. If he gets a chance to feel strong, in control, that's called coping. When he copes, he feels better.

~ Jonathan Kellerman

How hard it is to now believe that these strong, merciless chains of fear and hopelessness, rendering the limbs of my mind motionless, were once innocuous mere threads.” -Mehul.M

~ Abhinav .M

We are all the product of our past and have to live with our memories and personality they cannot be erased.

~ Jane Hersey

Worrying is the most natural and spontaneous of all human functions. It is time to acknowledge this, perhaps even to learn to do it better.

~ Lewis Thomas

Chronic trauma (according to the meaning I propose) that occurs early in life has profound effects on personality development and can lead to the development of dissociative identity disorder (DID), other dissociative disorders, personality disorders, psychotic thinking, and a host of symptoms such as anxiety, depression, eating disorders, and substance abuse. In my view, DID is simply an extreme version of the dissociative structure of the psyche that characterizes us all.

~ Elizabeth F. Howell

The man of courage is not the man who did not face adversity. The man of courage is the man who faced adversity and spoke to it. The man of courage tells adversity, You're trespassing and I give you no authority to steal my joy, my faith or my hope.

~ Kiese Laymon

You embody the strength of 10,000 moons and your life will be a testament of it. Ase

~ Kierra C.t. Banks

The promise of hope provides more comfort than the limitations of doubt.

~ T.f. Hodge

For people like us, looking towards the future can feel daunting. It can literally make us feel sick to the stomach and often induces panic attacks. Trust me, I’ve been there; I get it. That’s why the far-future should never be at the top of our “to-plan” list. It’s alright to have goals but to stress ourselves out with plans and options and worries of the future is a good way to drive us crazy. However, there is one time when I want you to consider the future. Always have something to look forward to.

~ S.r. Crawford

The truth is scary. We all think we want it, but once it’s given, it’s harder to swallow than we originally thought. But sometimes, when the pain is too much, we have to be honest with ourselves. Why are we unhappy? Why are we scared? Is it internal, or external? Then when we find the answer, we need to accept it (see chapter 1), and make the necessary changes to fix it.

~ S.r. Crawford

Learning to sit with ambiguity can be a very important start at a life liberated from anxiety—and the way to do it is to resist the urge to chase answers to questions that may actually be unanswerable.

~ Kelly G. Wilson

Well, this has been some shit.

~ Pat Shand

I write letters to you that you’ll never see.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

He looked at me, that first day, like he had just found something he’d lost a thousand years ago.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

But I love you and I want you and I need you. Can’t you see that? This world has nothing to offer me if it doesn’t include you.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

Time' is the most threatening four letter word.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

I’m tired of justifying why I love someone. I’m done with the explaining.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

That last time you kissed me my heart slid past your teeth down into the center of your chest… trapping us both in a stainless cage.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

If I had an .MP3 of your heartbeat… I might actually get some sleep.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

I kept waiting for the part where I’d finally know who I was — some flashing, neon moment of relief, but it never came.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

In the old days, when travelers would get lost, they would follow the stars and I love that idea. I wish that I could rely on something as simple and magnificent as a star for all of my aching questions.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

I ruin everything. I think that a bullet must have passed through my heart when I was very young, causing me to bleed out slowly, over things and people and every white surface that I’d ever come across.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth