Khaled Hosseini Quotes

I hyperventilate quite a lot.

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.

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.

My heart was beating out of my chest.

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.

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

Live TV would terrify anybody.

I think I'm prone to panic.

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.

Panic is a horrible thing.

I have stage fright every single concert I've ever done. I have at least four or five minutes of it. It's absolute living hell.

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.

My heart started running away, like a pack of horses. Then it slowed down and became irregular.

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.

I went to lunch at the Ivy. People started running across the street, and one guy almost got hit by a car. I started to freak out. That put me into hiding for three weeks. I didn't leave the house.

Hovering near panic, trying to focus but finding it hard to open my eyes. My heart was pounding. I couldn’t get enough air, and I couldn’t find the desire to push her away

The only time I flip out is when I'm not prepared. If I'm caught off guard, I can't help it; I start gasping for air.

Fear is excitement without breath.

I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety.

I'm only going to work now when I'm terrified.

I get so nervous before I go onstage - beyond butterflies!

Well, I need to be frightened on a regular basis.

Every time I went on stage I was so terrified I almost threw up.

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've never told anyone this. But I suffer from terrible stage fright. True. You can't tell though, can you? Unbelievable, the panic. I nearly die of fear before I go on stage. Something wicked. I can't eat a thing the day before a gig. It'd make me vomit.