Anxiety
Quotes - You are the biggest enemy of your own sleep
“Today
I wore a pair of faded old jeans and a plain grey baggy shirt. I hadn't even
taken a shower, and I did not put on an ounce of makeup. I grabbed a worn out
black oversized jacket to cover myself with even though it is warm outside. I
have made conscious decisions lately to look like less of what I felt a male
would want to see. I want to disappear.”
―
Sierra D. Waters, Debbie.
“Living
a life somewhere else in your mind is nothing more than being a prisoner where
you are.”
―
Shannon L. Alder
“A
bitter man needs to place his troubles on the front of his tongue so that they
taste sweeter.”
―
Jay Wickre, Dubious Musings of a Peculiar Man
“You
are the biggest enemy of your own sleep.”
―
Pawan Mishra
“Present
fears are less than horrible imaginings.”
―
William Shakespeare, Macbeth
“Mattie
sat at the table, obsessing, orbiting around herself. She was sick of her
worried, hostile mind. It would have killed her long before, she felt, if it
hadn't needed the transportation.”
―
Anne Lamott, Blue Shoe
“But
the great artists like Michelangelo and Blake and Tolstoi--like Christ whom
Blake called an artist because he had one of the most creative imaginations
that ever was on earth--do not want security, egoistic or materialistic. Why,
it never occurs to them. "Be not anxious for the morrow," and
"which of you being anxious can add one cubit to his stature?"
So
they dare to be idle, i.e. not to be pressed and duty-driven all the time. They
dare to love people even when they are very bad, and they dare not to try and
dominate others to show them what they must do for their own good. ”
―
Brenda Ueland, If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit
“While
fear depletes power, faith gives wings for the soul’s elevation.”
―
T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious
Encounters With the Divine Presence
“Keep
your problems to yourself, if its too much for you, kill it slowly till it disappears
from your life.”
―
Michael Bassey Johnson
“Thanks
to the imagination, there’s no end to things in this world that can trigger
anxiety.”
―
Ryū Murakami, Piercing
“He
might have been encased in a thick glass bubble, so separate did he feel from
his three dining companions. It was a sensation with which he was only too
familiar, that of walking in a giant sphere of worry, enclosed by it, watching
his own terrors roll by, obscuring the outside world.”
―
J.K. Rowling, The Casual Vacancy
“It's
all right, Con, to feel anxious. Allow yourself a couple of bad days, now and
then, will you?”
―
Judith Guest, Ordinary People
“The
novice in the military art flew from point to point, retarding his own
preparations by the excess of his violent and somewhat distempered zeal; while
the more practiced veteran made his arrangements with a deliberation that
scorned every appearance of haste”
―
James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans
“He
felt like normal. Filled with anxiety, dread, sure. But even that wasn't
unusual...”
―
John Ajvide Lindqvist, Let the Right One In
“Truces
may stop the battles, but part of you will always feel like you're at war.”
―
David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing
“There
is a moment, if you trip or slip, before your hand shoots out to break your
fall, when you feel the earth rushing up at you and you cannot help yourself, a
passing, fraction-of-a-second terror. I felt that way hour after hour after
hour. Being anxious at this extreme level is bizarre. You feel all the time
that you want to do something, that there is some affect that is unavailable to
you, that there’s a physical need of impossible urgency and discomfort for
which there is no relief, as though you were constantly vomiting from your
stomach but had no mouth.”
―
Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
“It
is often the case that, at times of great anxiety, when the diversion of a good
story should seem most welcome, one is least equipped to focus one’s mind on
reading.”
―
Kate Albus, A Place to Hang the Moon
“Good
God, but life could be less than easy, not that he was unaware that it could
certainly be a lot worse, but to go about in such a state, pulse high, face
red, worried sick that someone would notice how nervous one was, was certainly
less than ideal, and he felt sure that his body was secreting all kinds of
harmful chemicals and that the more he worried about the harmful chemicals the
faster they were pouring out of wherever it was they came from.”
―
George Saunders, Pastoralia
“I
know a little something about fear, honey. I know what a relief it feels like
to give into it at first. It’s not hard to persuade yourself that you’re doing
the right thing—that you’re making the smart, safe decision. But fear is
insidious. It takes anything you’re willing to give it, the parts of your life
you don’t mind cutting out, but when you’re not looking, it takes anything else
it damn well pleases, too.”
―
Andrea Lochen, Imaginary Things
“The
best way to stop overthinking is conscious micro action meditation ( laghu
jnana kriya).”
―
Amit Ray, 72000 Nadis and 114 Chakras in Human Body for Healing and Meditation
“This
is where I go, when I go:
It's
a room with no windows and no doors, and walls that are thin enough for me to
see and hear everything but too thick to break through.
I'm
there, but I'm not there.
I
am pounding to be let out, but nobody can hear me.
This
is where I go, when I go:
To
a country where everyone's face looks different from mine, and the language is
the act of not speaking, and noise is everywhere in the air we breathe. I am
doing what the Romans do in Rome; I am trying to communicate, but no one has
bothered to tell me that these people cannot hear.
This
is where I go, when I go:
Somewhere
completely, unutterably orange.
This
is where I go, when I go:
To
the place where my body becomes a piano full of black keys only—the sharps and
the flats, when everyone know that to play a song other people want to hear,
you need some white keys.
This
is why I come back:
To
find those white keys.”
―
Jodi Picoult, House Rules
“I
control you, he said to his fear, you do not control me.”
―
Nicki Pau-Preto, Crown of Feathers
“How
could she be anxious when everything was so cheerful? Very easily, as it
happens. Brain chemistry doesn’t care about how pretty things are.”
―
Maureen Johnson, Truly, Devious
