Vicki Baum Quotes

I very often wake up at two in the morning with my stomach going over. Sometimes it's difficult to work out why - it's all the things you've put to one side during the day.

I worry about things constantly.

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

I had a tight stomach all the time. I actually developed ulcers. I've learned better than to put all that internal pressure on myself.

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

I worry too much.

Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche.

The reason so many intelligent and creative people suffer from depression is that when you take the risk of being fully conscious, you open Pandora's box, and you can't close it again.

I criticise myself an awful lot. I do worry to the point that I don't think it's very healthy. I'm always picking my flaws. It's a terrible anxiety I have. I wish I could pretend nothing fazes me, but it does.

I can look back at different times in my life when I felt I could not find my way out of whatever it was. I'm not necessarily talking about marriage, but I wanted to pack it in. I wanted to disappear. A lot of that has to do with being in the public eye.

When you get over the anxiety, you discover you should have been mad a long time ago.

I'm a worrywart, so I'm always a bit more stressed out than I should be or wish I was.

Most of us have unhealthy thoughts and emotions that have either developed as a result of trauma or hardships in their childhood, or the way they were raised.

Tell me, do you think I'm going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.

Anxiety has afflicted me all my life.

Worry is the stomach's worst poison.

I think, after about a week in, I started to get really down. I would feel better when I would eat.

I think so much about everything. I'm obsessive.

You can always find stress in someone's life if you want to. You ask a few questions, and eventually, it's, 'Yes, I admit, I was worried about something recently.'

Sometimes I catch myself stooping, and whenever I am like that, I am sure something is not quite right.

I think that for some time now I have been living with an anxiety which has had no tangible cause. It has been like having a toothache, without the conscientious dentist having been able to find anything wrong with the tooth or with the person as a whole.

Stress is real, and you never know what a person is going through behind the camera.

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'm acutely aware of my anxiety.

My anxiety stems from my lack of control no matter what.