“How can I find the right way to control all the conflict inside?”— Ian Curtis, amazon.comTagged: Depression, Internal Struggle, Anxiety
“And I live with the dead – my mother , my sister [Sophie], my grandfather, my father [who died in 1889, when Munch was in France].. .Every day is the same – my friends have stopped coming – their laughter disturbs me, tortures me.. ..my daily walk round the old castle becomes shorter and shorter, it…”— Edvard Munch, en.wikiquote.orgTagged: Torture, Existentialism, Grief, hopeless, Depression
“When you feel anxious about something, it means you haven’t yet acquired the experience and evidence necessary to show you that you can do the scary thing and be okay.”— Daniell Koepke, shopcatalog.comTagged: Anxiety, Anxious, Finding Your Path, just go for it
“Hey you, keep living. It won't always be this overwhelming.”— Jacqueline Whitney, instagram.comTagged: Sending You Love, Healing, Anxiety, Keep Going, Keep Living
“When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon everything in me that is bewildered and confused.”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.comTagged: Ocean, beach, Anxiety, Nature, Ocean Healing
“We repeat stories about ourselves to make sense of our worlds. The stories I’ve always told about who I am — that I don’t take risks, that I’m the good daughter, that I’m the uncomplicated girlfriend, that I have to look a certain way to be happy, that the shape of my future is not only obvious but…”— Harling Ross, manrepeller.comTagged: Anxiety
“You're in the middle of something wonderful, something so tremendous you may never experience it again. But you can't really understand how wonderful it is. That makes you impatient. And that, in turn, leads to despair.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.comTagged: Happiness, Life, life's happiness, Living, happiness in living
“Most of the time, rejection is not even about you.”— Elisa Gabbert, electricliterature.comTagged: Rejection, Anxiety, Publishing
“Please, keep going. Don’t give up. All you have to do is get through today. Twenty-four hours. 1,440 minutes. That’s all you need to do right now.”— Holly Riordan, instagram.comTagged: Survival, Anxiety
“i’m at a job interview counting the ‘likes’ i’ve said in my head & i don’t realize that i’ve peeled my left thumbnail further than its destiny intended don’t realize that it is bleeding.”— Melissa Lozada-Oliva, buttonpoetry.comTagged: Slam Poetry, Anxiety, Social Anxiety
“For as long as I can remember, I have always felt anxious in social settings. Whether that be in class or at parties, or even in just groups of more than three people, I just always feel uncomfortable, paranoid, and painfully awkward.”— Krystal Naval, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Anxiety, Social Anxiety, Paranoid, awkward
“One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.”— Jiddu Krishnamurti, amazon.comTagged: unknown, Anxiety, assumption, Presumptions
“Is dying harder than being already dead?”— Robert Lowell, amazon.comTagged: depressed, Empty, Dying, Anxiety
“Being open with your insecurities paradoxically makes you more confident and charismatic around others. The pain of honest confrontation is what generates the greatest trust and respect in your relationships. Suffering through your fears and anxieties is what allows you to build courage and persever…”— Mark Manson, amazon.comTagged: Insecurity, Anxiety, Overcoming Your Weaknesses, Suffering Through You Fear
“Numerous experiments showed that people feel depressed when they fail to live up to their own ideals, but when they fall short of a standard set by others, they feel anxious.”— Lisa Feldman Barrett, amazon.comTagged: emotions, How To Think, Anxiety, Depression
“Did you know that as humans, we are wired to focus on the negative? Our brains are naturally drawn to see the bad.”— Dr. Allison Niebes-Davis, cupcakesandcashmere.comTagged: Anxiety, Managing Anxiety, Anxiety Disorder, Coping with Anxiety, Negativity
“I want to be afraid but it seems that these days I'm caught under water and I'm falling farther. My heart's getting harder, I'm calling my father. Am I screaming to an empty sky?”— Tyler Joseph, youtube.comTagged: Afraid, Water, falling, heart, Calling
“One of the ways that people refuse responsibility is by subscribing to the belief that their suffering shouldn't be happening.”— Sheryl Paul MA, amazon.comTagged: Suffering, Anxiety
“nailbiter, n.: I take it out on myself, but only in ways I know I’ll survive.”— David Levithan, twitter.comTagged: nailbiting, Anxiety, self, self-harm
“It seems weird to me that here we are, alive, not knowing why we are alive, and just going about our business, sort of ignoring that fact. How are we all not looking at each other all the time just like, "Yo, what the fuck?"”— Melissa Broder, amazon.comTagged: Anxiety, alive
“I was terrified of losing her before she was even mine to lose.”— Tim O’Brien, amazon.comTagged: Losing Someone, Love, Paranoia, Anxiety
“I'm haunted by all the space that I will live without you.”— Richard Brautigan, allpoetry.comTagged: Being Alone, Anxiety, Paranoia
“You know what you do? Would you like me to tell you what you do? You actually go out of your way to torture yourself.”— J. D. Salinger, amazon.comTagged: Torture, Anxiety
“When she was alone by herself she clenched her fists together, and began beating the back of a chair with them. She was like a wounded animal. She hated death; she was furious, outraged, indignant with death, as if it were a living creature. She would not submit to dark and nothingness. She began to…”— Virginia Woolf, amazon.comTagged: Death, Anxiety, Darkness, Grief
“I care too much about little things that I shouldn’t care about. Things that I wish I didn’t care about at all.”— Holly Riordan, amazon.comTagged: Anxiety, Caring too much
“…You do not know me, and when you do, you will hate me…”— Katherine Mansfield, amazon.comTagged: Anxiety, Social Anxiety, Growing Up Shy
“That noise in our head is selfish, afraid and angry. That noise is self-satisfied, self-important and certain. That noise pushes intimacy away and will do anything it can to degrade those that might challenge us.”— Seth Godin, sethgodin.typepad.comTagged: Anxiety, Voices In Our Head, Overcoming The Noise Of Our Heads
“My current therapist likes to say that exercise in any form is a gift we give ourselves. It’s a gift of action, of honoring the body by moving it, flexing it, challenging it. It’s a gift of satisfaction.”— Conley Lyons, them.usTagged: Running, sexuality, Bisexuality, Queer, LGBT