Julian Barnes Quotes

At night when I used to sleep, I was thinking all the time that shall I put a knife under my pillow.

I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and suddenly everything disappears. Nighttime is the time I get most scared, anxious or worried. In those darker moments before waking or sleeping is when I feel most, I don't know, I can turn on myself, and my imagination can take me dark places.

I do tend to wake up in the middle of the night convinced I've made a disaster.

The worst thoughts usually strike in the dead of the night.

When I was 15 or 16 - I slept really well then. Now I sleep on a bed of anxiety-tipped nails.

If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious.

What keeps me up at night? Anxiety. Anxiety, the inability to go to sleep, it's quite literally that.

You know what it's like to feel anxious - it's horrible feeling anxious. It's stressful having that feeling, having butterflies in your stomach, even for a day, and you don't sleep at night.

Once you start worrying, it's hard to stop.

I worry a lot. I'm a catastrophizer by nature.

It's official: The biggest back-to-school bullies are anxiety, worry and fear.

I hate horror movies. I get really scared, and I don't want to be scared. I don't know why, but I'm one of those people who gets frightened and can't go to sleep.

I worry about things constantly.

I think a lot of my anxieties and fears are things that are very abstract.

When you try to worry about missteps and all that kind of stuff, that's not the healthiest way to be.

Worries find you easily enough without inviting them.

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

Beware thoughts that come in the night.

I worry too much.

I still feel I'm going to wake up any moment, and my skin's going to break out all over.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

I don't sleep well. I'm a very nervous - by my nature - anxious, almost paranoid person and reporter.

I don't know what anxiety is like anymore.

Whenever things are good, I always worry about what could go wrong.

I have always worried about things more than I should.