#anxiety

That sometimes human beings have to just sit in one place and, like, hurt. That you will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do. That there is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness. That it is possible to fall asleep during an anxiety attack. That concentrating on anything is very hard work. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#anxiety

Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#understanding #anxiety

The only way I can describe the extent of my anxiety is to say that I felt as if I were pregnant with a rock. ↗

— Katharine Graham

#simile #strikes #washington-post #anxiety

It felt like this was never going to end. The world wasn't going to stop crashing down until there was nothing left of me but dust. ↗

— Keary Taylor

#depression #mental #mental-disorder #mental-illness #anxiety

It's true, I did say I wanted girlfriends," I capitulated hesitantly, "but couldn't we start with something smaller and less terrifying? Like maybe spend a weekend at a crack house? I heard those people are very nonjudgmental, and if you accidentally say something offensive you can just blame it on their hallucinations. ↗

— Jenny Lawson

#friends #girlfriends #anxiety

It was one of those days when I was thinking too much, too fast. Only it was more like the thoughts had a mind of their own and going all by themselves at a hundred miles a second, and I was just sitting back, feeling the growing paranoia inside of me. ↗

— Sasha Mizaree

#contemplation #control-issues #paranoia #thoughts #anxiety

My goal is to write every day. I say it is my ideal. I am careful not to pass judgment or create anxiety if I do not do it. No one lives up to his ideal. ↗

— Natalie Goldberg

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He smiled. A sub shouldn’t be terrified, but a little anxiety was good. ↗

— Cherise Sinclair

#erotic #erotic-romance #anxiety

In all her intercourse with society, however, there was nothing that made her feel as if she belonged to it... She stood apart from mortal interests, yet close beside them, like a ghost that revisits the familiar fireside, and can no longer make itself seen or felt. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#society #solitude #anxiety

Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#anxiety #contemporary