Janet Fitch Quotes

When you are desperate, it's usually because of fear.

I think that what people imagine they're going through is much worse than what they are going through.

You can't 'work through worry and fear rationally,' because fear isn't rational!

All worry is fear-based.

Worry is a cloud which rains destruction.

Panic is our great enemy.

Anxiety is practising failure in advance. Anxiety is needless and imaginary. It's fear about fear, fear that means nothing.

I worry too much.

Well, I did know - but I just wanted the day to pass and the next day to come and then I wanted that one to pass. It was a horrible cycle. I felt so close to having to pack the game in.

You know, sometimes I feel well and vital in the world, and sometimes I just feel so distressed I want to pull my hair out by the roots.

I don't know what anxiety is like anymore.

Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.

Fear is one of the worst, and most limiting, emotions in life.

If you're really invested in feeling bad about the world, there are a lot of media outlets out there that you can turn to.

I'm anxious by nature, I think.

Not being happy really is my fear.

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.

A lot of people have to deal with the feeling that their worlds are caving in.

I have fits of melancholia when I watch the news, but we all do, don't we?

I'm prone to a more depressed outlook on life.

Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

People get so stressed and nervous and mad.

The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.

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.

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.