“We must suffer alone, but we can at least hold out our arms to a similarly tortured, fractured and above all else, anxious neighbors as if to say in the kindest way possible, I know!”— The School of Life, youtube.com
“We should learn to laugh about our anxieties, laugh to be the exuberant expression of relief when a hither to private agony, is given a well-crafted social formulation in a joke.”— The School of Life, youtube.com
“The single most important move is to accept that we'll always be anxious. There is no need on top of everything else to be anxious, that we're anxious. The mood is no sign that our lives have gone wrong, merely that we're alive.”— The School of Life, youtube.com
“Though we may focus day-to-day on this or that particular worry creating static in our minds, what we're really up against is anxiety as a permanent feature of life: something irrevocable, existential, dogged and responsible for ruining a dominant share for our brief time on earth.”— The School of Life, youtube.com
“I am anxious about what to wear, what to eat, what to say, how to breathe.”— Janice Dickinson, amazon.com
“If I didn’t have anxiety, I wouldn’t be as strong as I am right now. I wouldn’t be as resilient and as brave. And I guess you could say, I wouldn’t even be me.”— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, thoughtcatalog.com
“Long walks can improve moods and reduce anxiety, but the benefits may be greatest if the walks take place outdoors rather than in a gym.”— Gretchen Reynolds, nytimes.com
“There is hope and when I feel like there isn't hope, my brain is lying to me.”— John Green, youtube.com
“It takes us awhile to open up to the person we are falling for. Why? Because our anxiety gives us reasons to feel paranoid even if there’s no reason to be.”— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, thoughtcatalog.com
“Find someone who will never make you ask for help or support or just a hand to hold because they are there, always. Because they understand. Because they love you.”— Rose Goodman, thoughtcatalog.com
“As he inflates his imagination, he inflates his capacity for anxiety, and inevitably becomes the victim of crushing phobias that can only be allayed by crushing doses of heroin or alcohol.”— John Cheever, amazon.com
“At its worst, anxiety can feel like death. At its best, anxiety feels like a cramping stomach.”— Ari Eastman, thoughtcatalog.com
“When I'm in a phase of real turmoil or the anxiety is very strong, it feels like the anxiety is never going to end, and it does.”— Emma Stone, dailymail.co.uk
“When I'm in a phase of real turmoil or the anxiety is very strong, it feels like the anxiety is never going to end, and it does.”— Emma Stone, dailymail.co.uk
“I get anxious about everything. I just can't stop thinking about things all the time. And here's the really destructive part -- it's always retrospective. I waste time thinking of what I should have said or done.”— Hugh Laurie, azquotes.com
“My anxiety makes me feel like a shitty girlfriend — even though my boyfriend keeps reminding me that it’s not the case. That he’s lucky to have me. That he wants to be with me forever, whether I’m suffering from anxiety or not.”— Holly Riordan, thoughtcatalog.com
“You feel fine. If the way ‘fine’ feels is kind of bleak and dead inside, with an undercurrent of inexplicable anxiety.”— Heidi Priebe, thoughtcatalog.com
“I'm totally an anxious mess all the time. There's a constant dialogue going on in my brain, and it's just reminding me of all the failures that I have had, and all of the things I need to do, and all of the things I'm not doing good enough.”— Aubrey Plaza, azquotes.com