Louis Kronenberger Quotes

Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche.

I was born with a nervous breakdown.

The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships, disease. As the nature of human life has become far more complicated, our ancient stress response hasn't been able to keep up.

The worst thing about living in this world, in general, is that things get overwhelming, and things cause a tremendous amount of despair and anxiety.

The stress of grad school can drive anyone temporarily mad.

Sometimes I'll be telling my husband, 'I think I'm cracking up'. Sometimes you just need a minute to say, 'I think I'm cracking' and just acknowledge it.

For the price of intelligence as we now know it is chronic anxiety, anxiety which appears to increase—oddly enough—to the very degree that human life is subjected to intelligent organization.

I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.

While the line between stress, deep anxiety, and depression often blurs, most entrepreneurs struggle with broad mental health issues at various points in their lives.

I personally dealt with a lot of depression and anxiety in my life.

Both worry and stress reek of arrogance.

And think what worrying does: has anyone ever added a single hour to the length of his life by worrying about it?

Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.

I was certainly going the right way for a stroke when I left Paris. I paid for it nicely afterwards! When I stopped drinking, when I stopped smoking so much, when I began to think again instead of trying not to think - Good Lord, the depression and the prostration of it! Work in these magnificent natural surroundings (Arles) has restored my morale, but even now some efforts are too much for me: my strength fails me.

Just for the record, the weather today is increasing turmoil with a possible physical and emotional breakdown.

Worry, whatever its source, weakens, takes away courage, and shortens life.

Depression will always follow any decision to avoid a priority.

I think stress is anything going on in our lives that impinges on our capacity to have optimum well being.

Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.

Evil is a disease; and worry over disease is itself an additional form of disease, which only adds to the original complaint.

My anxieties have anxieties.

Sunday is the day people go quietly mad, one way or another.

I think perhaps all of us go a little crazy at times.

Worry means the mind is controlling you. Worry is always pointless. A solution never comes out of worry.

Stress is a form of suffering, but it is accepted as normal. And it is normal in our world.