Roz Chast Quotes

I worried too much when I was a kid.

I don't know what anxiety is like anymore.

I'm anxious about work, the future, friendships, past relationships... I'm just one of those people that, whatever I'm doing, it's a big worry.

People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.

The older I get, the more nervous and anxiety-ridden I get. I don't know how to fix that.

Everybody feels good in their skin for about a minute a day, and the rest of the day, you're just trying to navigate your way through the sea of terror.

If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious.

Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.

I've worried more and more as the years have gone on. The more you're seen to be doing well, the more stress there is. You feel you ought to consider things more, and be more fussy - there's further to fall. All these little worries.

The anxiety does crawl up. The other night I was having panic attacks: 'Oh, my God, what's going to happen to me? Am I ever going to have another job?'

What worries you, masters you.

A mind concerned about danger is a clouded mind. It's paralyzing.

There are moments when your mind is very vulnerable. You feel a lot of doubts.

Many today feel troubled and distressed; many feel that, at any moment, the ships of their lives could capsize or sink.

We don't discount that people's fears are their fears.

It's official: The biggest back-to-school bullies are anxiety, worry and fear.

I know what paranoia is like. I know what it is like to worry about what people are saying about you and become obsessed with what people are saying about you.

I was so stressed, man. When I was 17, I was so worried about what the hell was going to happen.

Worry is a big part of my life. I definitely worry a lot.

I'm a very anxious, nervy kind of loser in many ways, and I get very stressed and a little tense.

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

Worry is a cloud which rains destruction.

I am neurotic, and I'm a worrier.

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

Our worries always come from our weaknesses.