Alicia Vikander Quotes

I've always been full of nervous energy, but I'm not really as happy as I seem.

Fear usually looks like anger.

It's important not to indicate. People don't try to show their feelings, they try to hide them.

Underneath our nice, friendly facades there is great unease. If I were to scratch below the surface of anyone I would find fear, pain, and anxiety running amok. We all have ways to cover them up. We overeat, over-drink, overwork; we watch too much television.

I always put on a brave face when I was the most terrified, the most trapped and out of control.

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.

How a character hides his feelings tells us something about him.

I can't waste more time worrying unless something surfaces that should legitimately cause fear.

I may have a slightly paranoid nature, a fear of losing control of my life.

Almost everyone seems to worry about something, and yet, we rarely talk about worry as a problem. Maybe that is because worry is so integrated into the way we have come to live and be in the world that we don't even notice it.

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

I have a tendency to freak myself out.

I suffer from anxiety.

I feel like a lot of times when stuff is on my mind, I really don't show it. I know how to hide my emotions.

Worry divides the mind.

Anyone else feel like that? Like your life's a big act. Like you're trying to be a man when you're just a scared kid, trying to keep under control when you really want to scream, cry, or maybe hit someone. Ever feel like you're breathing underwater and you have to stop because you're gulping in too much fluid.

When I'm not working, I think and I think when I get depressed.

want won't kill you half as quick as worry will.

To live is to have worries and uncertainties. Keep them inside, and they will destroy you for certain--leaving behind a person so callused that emotion can find no root in his heart.

I was deeply unhappy, but I didn't know it because I was so happy all the time.

Are you worried about pressure? I look at it this way: Pressure is having to do something you are not totally prepared to do.

Anxiety is the illness of our age. We worry about ourselves, our family, our friends, our work, and our state of the world. If we allow worry to fill our hearts, sooner or later we will get sick.

Anxiety beclouds the future.

The only thing worried thoughts have the power to change is what the next thing will be for you to worry over!

God, was I going to have another day of painful thoughts jumping me every time I relaxed? The obvious solution—to just not relax—was kind of sucking.