Oscar Wilde Quotes

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

People who never get anxious always amaze me. The world could be breaking up, and they're saying, 'Everything's fine!'

I don't really get nervous.

Well, I think probably the main reason people overeat is stress.

I don't really get flustered.

I don't think anything affects my nerves.

I don't get nervous. I don't feel pressure.

Worry means tormenting yourself with disturbing thoughts or fretting about things we have zero control over. If you live in the north there is no need to worry about the snow. You will get plenty each year. If you live in California or Texas you needn't worry about rain because we won't receive any.

I get really quiet when I'm nervous. I don't freak out.

I don't really feel pressure.

Those who are certain of the outcome can afford to wait, and wait without anxiety.

This is important! But you have to stay absolutely cool. I may be completely off-base, and panicking prematurely." "I don't think so. I think you're panicking post-maturely. In fact, if you were panicking any later it would be practically posthumously. I've been panicking for days.

Paranoia: the gift of the survivor and the burden of the overtired, stressed, and terrified.

Fear is the workout we give ourselves imagining what will happen if things don't work out. . . . Worry is our effort to imagine every possible way to avoid the outcome that is causing us fear, and failing that, to survive the thing that we fear if it comes to fruition.

The American way of stress is comparable to Freud's 'beloved symptom', his name for the cherished neurosis that a patient cultivates like the rarest of orchids and does not want to be cured of. Stress makes Americans feel busy, important, and in demand, and simultaneously deprived, ignored, and victimized. Stress makes them feel interesting and complex instead of boring and simple, and carries an assumption of sensitivity not unlike the Old World assumption that aristocrats were high-strung. In short, stress has become a status symbol.

What am I always going to do? I'm going to go home and freak out.I'm going to sit with my family and try not to talk about myself and what's wrong. Im going to try and eat. Then I'm going to try and sleep. I dread it. I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?

It is not necessary to do things in a state of anxiety or anguish. That is not the way to be aligned with life.

A gentleman is calm and spacious: the vulgar are always fretting.

Stay present. You'll always have time to worry later on if you want to.

Being anxious, or in a painful rush of any kind, kills the possibility of meeting anyone with compassion

Freedom from worries and surcease from strain are illusions that always inhabit the distance.

I get the strange urge to hit my head against the wall. Other people's sobs make me feel uncomfortable.

I'd like to be able to do complex math in my head. Any kind of adversity and I become very anxious, but if you're a robot, you have good equilibrium. I wish I was cooler under pressure, like a robot.

The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything.