Emotional Anxiety Quotes

I have a fear of being boring.

Her forehead was a maze of anxious little grooves, from a lifetime of wondering about whether everyone within range was OK.

Theatre should be a taxing experience: the greatest achievement of a writer is to produce a character who creates anxiety.

One of my first thoughts I had when I started considering the mastectomy was, 'What am I going to look like?' And then, 'What will my husband think?'

Remember, taboos are just a map of what a society feels it's acceptable to be neurotic about. Taboos aren't rational.

Do you mind not being so kind and obedient? It makes me nervous.

I'm anxious by nature, I think.

Love is full of anxious fears.

We have nothing to fear but our mothers.

I wake up every morning in a cold sweat, regardless of how well things went the day before. And put that I said that in a somewhat but not completely tongue-in-cheek way.

The pleasure of living and the pleasure of the orgasm are identical. Extreme orgasm anxiety forms the basis of the general fear of life.

When the soul is starved for nourishment, it lets us know with feelings of emptiness, anxiety, or yearning

Really, Sophronia, it makes me most uncomfortable how you manage to sort everything out every time I faint.

Certainly we want to protect our children from new and painful experiences that are beyond their emotional comprehension and that intensify anxiety; and to a point we can prevent premature exposure to such experiences.

I never wanted children; maybe I'm afraid of responsibility.

His right ear still held both studs, and I wondered who had the missing earring. I would have asked, but was afraid he’d tell me Ivy had it.

In love, we worry more about the meaning of silences than the meaning of words.

I'm always very self-conscious and assume the way faith or religion might come up in my plays will seem very harsh to people of faith, or who are currently practicing.

The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.

I always felt like I was stuck in between my parents, relaying information back and forth and walking on egg shells, not knowing what was going to trigger something to make them mad and not knowing what to say in front of them.

I fear that I won't work in the theatre again. I'm sad about that. But I won't retire.

I think, for me, with regard to my parents, my biggest fear was not that they would reject me but that I would disappoint them. That by coming out, I would simultaneously dash my own dreams and their dreams for me, and I was afraid of letting them down.

I think my mother was always worried about me when she was alive.

Mahesh doesn't show his own anxieties when his films are up for release, but I become a nervous wreck.

One can't live with a child of Holocaust survivors without absorbing some of the same sensibilities that her parents transmitted to her as a young girl. It is an unspoken dread, a sense of fragility, an anxious anticipation of unseen horrors.