Fear Anxiety Quotes

Every morning I woke in dread, waiting for the day nurse to go on her rounds and announce from the list of names in her hand whether or not I was for shock treatment, the new and fashionable means of quieting people and of making them realize that orders are to be obeyed and floors are to be polished without anyone protesting and faces are to be made to be fixed into smiles and weeping is a crime.

People are really worried about their jobs. That's what everybody talks to me about today.

It is important to ask ourselves, as citizens, whether a world power can provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety.

FOMO (fear of missing out) is the enemy of valuing your own time.

But could not our situation be compared to one of a menacing epidemic? People are unable to view this situation in its true light, for their eyes are blinded by passion. General fear and anxiety create hatred and aggressiveness. The adaptation to warlike aims and activities has corrupted the mentality of man; as a result, intelligent, objective and humane thinking has hardly any effect and is even suspected and persecuted as unpatriotic.

Once we start believing that the apocalypse is coming, the amygdala goes on high alert, filtering out most anything that says otherwise.

It's very scary having something wrong with your head.

The man at the center [Donald Trump], soon to be the world's most powerful, now shoulders the hopes and dreams of millions of Americans, the fear and anxiety of millions more.

It's part of my life to feel like a criminal, to have eyes in my back and see if I'm being followed. It's a feeling that comes from street juggling because I have been arrested so many times.

The very damaging, frightening part of postpartum is the lack of perspective and the lack of priority and understanding what is really important.

All anxiety is fear-based.

The Coronavirus crisis is causing fear, anxiety and financial hardship for families across our community, our state and our nation.

I actually have a very real, irrational fear of zombies.

You're always haunted by the idea you're wasting your life.

When I wake up in night sweats, that's what I'm thinking about: what if someone grabs me from my past and says, 'I heard you drag me to filth on your podcast.'

I suppose I have been contending with issues surrounding my safety and security for years.

I always imagine babies crying.

The only thing I fear is the harmful effects on my family, who I won't be able to help any more. That's what keeps me up at night.

It's always mildly unnerving when you're hanging upside down 70 feet in the air.