Derek Bok Quotes

I have anxiety.

I have always worried about things more than I should.

Worry is a big part of my life. I definitely worry a lot.

In all of my looking at happiness, one thing I noticed right away is that the opposite of happiness isn't unhappiness or even depression, it's anxiety. It is something that can constantly block our happiness, or our chance to reach that sort of meditative state in our work or our home lives.

I'm anxious about work, the future, friendships, past relationships... I'm just one of those people that, whatever I'm doing, it's a big worry.

Worry is the stomach's worst poison.

When I've gone through those periods of depression or anxiety, it's almost like your body is telling you constantly with these panics that the world really is the terrible place that you think it is, and all the things you fear are true about yourself have to be true.

I worry about things constantly.

I've been a worrier for as long as I can remember.

Worry is one of the most destructive scourges of mankind.

Worry is just about the worst form of mental activity there is.

I worry too much.

I'm afraid of happy people. They're chemically unbalanced.

I don't know what anxiety is like anymore.

During the lifetime of Japan I became very neurotic, very paranoid.

Now is the age of anxiety.

In general, I think I'm quick to worry about disasters of all kinds.

Of course there are times when I think, 'I'd be better out of this.'

The older I get, the more nervous and anxiety-ridden I get. I don't know how to fix that.

One thing I've very quickly learned is that if you wake up every morning worrying about what's in the press, you would go completely and utterly potty.

I wake up every morning with the worst anxiety. I don't know why. I have, like, a problem.

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

I am living for every day and trying to have less fear, less worry. But I have always worried about everything; it's in my nature. It's the thing that makes me suffer the most.

Anxiety, it just stops your life.

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