Anxiety
Quotes - I've wasted a lot of time in my life
“I
can do this… I can start over. I can save my own life and I’m never going to be
alone as long as I have stars to wish on and people to still love.”
―
Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
“Maybe
we tried to leave as much memories of ourselves with each other because we knew
one day we wouldn't be together any more.”
―
Makoto Shinkai, 5 Centimeters per Second
“I've
wasted a lot of time in my life. I've thought too much about what people will
say or what they're gonna think. And sometimes it's over silly things like
going to the grocery store or going to the post office. But there have been
times when I really stopped myself from doing something special. All because I
was scared someone might look at me and decide I wasn't good enough. But you
don't have to bother with that nonsense. I wasted all that time so you don't
have to.”
―
Julie Murphy, Dumplin'
“I've
learned that it helps to talk about [anxiety]. Unfortunately I think most
people would still get more sympathy from their colleagues and bosses at work
if they show up looking rough one morning and say 'I'm hungover' than if they
say 'I'm suffering from anxiety.' But I think we pass people in the street
every day who feel the same as you and I, many of them just don't know what it
is. Men and women going around for months having trouble breathing and seeing
doctor after doctor because they think there's something wrong with their
lungs. All because it's so damn difficult to admit that something else
is...broken. That it's an ache in our soul, invisible lead weights in our
blood, an indescribable pressure in our chest. Our brains are lying to us, telling
us we're going to die. But there's nothing wrong with our lungs, Zara.”
―
Fredrik Backman, Anxious People
“Creative
people, as I see them, are distinguished by the fact that they can live with
anxiety, even though a high price may be paid in terms of insecurity,
sensitivity, and defenselessness for the gift of the “divine madness,” to
borrow the term used by the classical Greeks. They do not run away from
non-being, but by encountering and wrestling with it, force it to produce
being. They knock on silence for an answering music; they pursue
meaninglessness until they can force it to mean.”
―
Rollo May, The Courage to Create
“mom
says where did anxiety come from?
anxiety
is the cousin visiting from out of town
depression
felt obliged to bring to the party.
mom,
i am the party.
only,
i am a party i don't want to be at.”
―
Sabrina Benaim, Depression & Other Magic Tricks
“Creating
is living doubly. The groping, anxious quest of a Proust, his meticulous
collecting of flowers, of wallpapers, and of anxieties, signifies nothing
else.”
―
Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
“My
life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.”
―
Michel de Montaigne
“You
always say such lovely things to me, Red. Do you say them to yourself?”
―
Talia Hibbert, Get a Life, Chloe Brown
“Curiosity
and passion are the enemies of anxiety. Even when I fell into anxiety, if I get
curious enough about something outside of me it can help pull me out. Music,
art, film, nature, conversation, words. Find passion as large as your fear. The
way out of your mind is via the world.”
―
Matt Haig, The Comfort Book
“I
hate the phone. It is the worst invention in the history of the world, because
if you don’t talk, nothing happens. You can’t get by with simply listening and
nodding your head in all the right places. You have to talk. You have no
option. It takes away my freedom of nonspeech.”
―
Alice Oseman, Solitaire
“Let
us not wait until the specter of solitude and isolation crawls into the alleys
of our lives. Let us not the veiled threat of despair thrust us into oppression
through our deficiency in interaction, and expand the frailty and the anxiety
of our existence. Let us reach out and talk instead and use an authentic
language in an unambiguous wording, and connect the dots, without fear.
("Words had disappeared”)”
―
Erik Pevernagie
“Nobody
would believe what an effort it is to do what little I am able, - to dress and
entertain, and order things”
―
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper
“Let
this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are
holding you back. I’m going to help you forgive the things that you won’t let
yourself forget.”
―
Jennifer Elisabeth
“I’ve
found that it’s of some help to think of one’s moods and feelings about the
world as being similar to weather.
Here
are some obvious things about the weather:
It's
real.
You
can't change it by wishing it away.
If
it's dark and rainy, it really is dark and rainy, and you can't alter it.
It
might be dark and rainy for two weeks in a row.
BUT
it
will be sunny one day.
It
isn't under one's control when the sun comes out, but come out it will.
One
day.
It
really is the same with one's moods, I think. The wrong approach is to believe
that they are illusions. Depression, anxiety, listlessness - these are all are
real as the weather - AND EQUALLY NOT UNDER ONE'S CONTROL.
Not
one's fault.
BUT
They
will pass: really they will.
In
the same way that one really has to accept the weather, one has to accept how
one feels about life sometimes, "Today is a really crap day," is a
perfectly realistic approach. It's all about finding a kind of mental umbrella.
"Hey-ho, it's raining inside; it isn't my fault and there's nothing I can
do about it, but sit it out. But the sun may well come out tomorrow, and when
it does I shall take full advantage.”
―
Stephen Fry
“Free
curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion.
Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline
under Your Law.”
―
St. Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
“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
“One
of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to
become aware of ourselves.”
―
Rollo May, Man's Search for Himself
