#anxiety

I've spent most of my life and most of my friendships holding my breath and hoping that when people get close enough they won't leave, and fearing that it's a matter of time before they figure me out and go. ↗

— Shauna Niequist

#friendships #social-anxiety #change

I sat down and tried to rest. I could not; though I had been on foot all day, I could not now repose an instant; I was too much excited. A phase of my life was closing tonight, a new one opening tomorrow: impossible to slumber in the interval; I must watch feverishly while the change was being accomplished. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#excitement #nerves #change

We are living in a new age of energy supply anxiety. ↗

— Daniel Yergin

#anxiety #energy #energy supply #living #new

On the night before we were married, all of the anxiety in the world came down upon me. ↗

— John C. Hawkes

#before #came #down #married #me

If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself. ↗

— Martin Heidegger

#anxiety #become #death #face #free

I had a lot of time to think, and that is not good for your mind. And when it actually happened, it was not so much a celebration but the relief. It was an exorcism anxiety. After each race there is a procedure in which you get taken off to the podium and the TV interviews. ↗

— Damon Hill

#after #anxiety #celebration #each #exorcism

Generally I can sleep any time, anywhere, any place, unless I'm anxious about work. I can get performance anxiety, so when I'm on tour it can be hard to sleep. ↗

— Natalie Imbruglia

#anxiety #anxious #any #anywhere #generally

I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety? ↗

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

#anxiety #ask #attacking #basis #citizens

Kindness is the cause of all anxiety. ↗

— David D. Burns

#cause #kindness

Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

#anxiety #constant #find #free #long