Baron Vaughn Quotes

I just think that for a lot of people - not to take the focus off of myself - that feeling of imminent dread, like a cloak of black dust, was always around me.

The role of anxiety in the development of human personality is central, and it is intricate beyond our understanding.

All worry is fear-based.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.

To grapple with and understand anxiety is, in some sense, to grapple with and understand the human condition.

There is a psychic cost children bear when they grow up in fear.

Fear has governed my life, if I think about it.

I think anxiety is dangerous, but it makes you think it's your friend.

There are moments when your mind is very vulnerable. You feel a lot of doubts.

I feel there is this looming cloud over my life.

True it is that each of us has only one life - but how many of us 'die a thousand deaths' in fear and nervousness!

I always feel fear, even just in daily life I feel fear.

I feel like fear is a very real thing, a very ubiquitous thing, and it can be very subtle.

I worry about things constantly.

I'm acutely aware of my anxiety.

God! Is there anything uglier than a frightened man!

[I had a sense of interior panic].Always. I didn't really know what to call it for a long time, but I have a friend in Greece who used that word panic a lot, and I found myself resisting it, until I totally accepted that as a precise description of my interior condition. It was mostly panic from one moment to the next. And nothing much else was going on.

Worry is a form of fear.

Of the mental hazards, being scared is the worst. When you get scared, you get tense.

Lena knew she had spent too much of her life in a state of passive dread, just waiting for something bad to happen. In a life like that, relief was as close as you got to happiness.

Fear and stress - one creates the other.

I think my apocalyptic feelings went deeper than [heavily influenced by Reagan and AIDS]. I'm really at peace with how afraid I am.

I don't know what anxiety is like anymore.

Because I've always been a fairly nervous person.