Anais Nin Quotes

Generally speaking, the anxiety will pass, which is easy for me to say when I'm not in the middle of an anxiety attack. When you're in the throes of one, it's hard to feel anything other than utter misery and terror.

Sometimes I feel surrounded by this dark cloud, and it feels like I can't breathe. It's nervousness and I don't know what else.

Going to the darkest place you can to make yourself really upset and adding that with the physicality and running around, you can work yourself into hysteria that way.

If they have covered your face with latex, you have to control yourself mentally so you won't think. If you start thinking, you will succumb to panic. I had a bit of a cold, and frankly I didn't have a good time.

What I wasn't prepared for were the feelings of anxiety that it stirred in me. I wasn't prepared for the initial feeling of I don't want to have to do that again. I was scared.

Sometimes I panic to the point where I don't know what I'm thinking or doing. I have a full anxiety attack. I have them all the time anyway, but with auditioning, it's bad.

Panic was the worst thing. When you panicked, you couldn't see possibilities. Then came despair.

Anxiety is love's greatest killer, because it is like the stranglehold of the drowning.

I fought, I fought harder . . . but one cell at a time, panic crept into my body, taking me over.

Fear / a motor, / pumps me around and around / until I fade slowly.

You don't need water to feel like you're drowning, do you?

The hardest thing to write was explaining what anxiety feels like. Every time I'd try to really write about what it feels like to have an anxiety attack, I would actually have an anxiety attack. It was good material but so incredibly uncomfortable.

Any time I got in emotional turmoil, I felt sick all the time, like at any minute I would die.

Some girls love to go to the airport and have 50 paparazzi on them. I go to the airport and have a mental breakdown.

Big emotions that are unexplained are really scary. At least to me.

Sometimes when I'm going to the supermarket to get the coffee and cat litter, I get freaked out and see all these people staring, and you turn around and there's, like, 40 people all looking at you... and when you go around the corner, they're all following you! You start freaking out like a trapped animal.

I get panic attacks in big crowds.

When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.

Everybody feels good in their skin for about a minute a day, and the rest of the day, you're just trying to navigate your way through the sea of terror.

I wake up every morning in a cold sweat, regardless of how well things went the day before. And put that I said that in a somewhat but not completely tongue-in-cheek way.

I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover.

Every day there's a lot of things I block out, because if I start visualising things, I tend to go completely insane. I've always had anxiety issues, and it can totally overwhelm me and suck me under if I'm not keeping focused. I just think and think until I have a panic attack, and then it dies down.

I think I'm prone to panic.

My heart pounds sickeningly and I turn pale... I often feel as if I were dead... I seem to be losing my mind.

The anxiety does crawl up. The other night I was having panic attacks: 'Oh, my God, what's going to happen to me? Am I ever going to have another job?'