Mikaela Shiffrin Quotes

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.

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.

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.

Big emotions that are unexplained are really scary. At least to me.

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 think people can have a panic attack where your heart is racing, you get shakes and jitters. But you can also feel disconnected. You know what I mean? I can feel depressed.

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

I hyperventilate quite a lot.

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.

I think I'm prone to panic.

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.

My heart pounds sickeningly and I turn pale... I often feel as if I were dead... I seem to be losing my mind.

What I wasn't prepared for were the feelings of anxiety that it stirred in me. I wasn't prepared for the initial feeling of I don't want to have to do that again. I was scared.

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.

I went through absolute stress and mayhem. I couldn't go out, because people were constantly on my back all the time.

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.

People come up to me in airports, they walk into the office, and they say, 'I'm going to cry; I'm going to pass out.' And I say, 'Please don't pass out; I'm not a doctor.'

I was under so much pressure. I often felt scared.

I'm suffering from the worst anxiety. I wake up reeling from panic at 4 A.M.

I was paralyzed with nerves on 'Taste of Honey' and never quite knew what was going on.

Panic was the worst thing. When you panicked, you couldn't see possibilities. Then came despair.

Fear is excitement without breath.

Sometimes travelling really intensely for a long time is like having a continuous nervous breakdown.

I got so anxious sitting in the make-up chair for hours with my face covered. I had my doctor write a prescription for valium. I couldn't have done it without the pill.

I don't know what anxiety is like anymore.