"Could he hear my heart pounding?"

Anxiety, Fear, Emotion, Heart

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"My native tense is future conditional, a low simmer of unspecified worry being the usual condition."

Michael Pollan, American Educator

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"Of all the heartache I will ever know, only some of it will be real. The rest, I will create."

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"Sometimes, too often, I don't want to muster the energy. Stress and anxiety seem easier."

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"Worrying about things that haven't happened yet is like riding on the hood of your car-what's the point?"

Ron Baratono, American Poet

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"To hear the phrase "our only hope" always makes one anxious, because it means that if the only hope doesn't work, there is nothing left."

Lemony Snicket, American Author

Anxiety, Hope, Pressure, Desperation

"Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure and generally create ourselves."

Benjamin Disraeli, British Statesman

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"Kids shouting and skidding in the playground with no idea what future Hells awaited them: boring jobs and ruinous mortgages and bad marriages and hair loss and hip replacements and lonely cups of coffee in an empty house and a colostomy bag at the hospital."

Donna Tartt, American Novelist

Anxiety, Childhood, Future, Reality

"The butterflies are working their way up from my stomach into my head, making me feel dizzy, and I try to calm myself by imagining the ocean outside, its ragged breathing, the seagulls turning pinwheels in the sky.It will be over soon, I tell myself. It will be over soon and then you'll go home, and you'll never have to think about the evaluation again."

Lauren Oliver, American Author

Anxiety, Calm, Imagination, Nature

"It is one of the poignant anxieties of the thinker that he sees the shadow resting on the human soul, and that he gropes in darkness without being able to awake that slumbering Progress."

Victor Hugo, French Author

Anxiety, Thinking, Progress, Darkness

"A person experiences anxiety when they realize their insignificance in the cosmic field, which present state of angst can exacerbated by other confusing life questions."

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"The gloaming that closed over us the cemetery had crawled inside his skin."

Mood

"I can't do everything for you. You must walk alone to find your soul."

Growth

"Where did you live before you came here?' I asked. 'The moon,' he said smoothly. 'We left because the place had no atmosphere."

Exploration

"I want to eat like a normal person eats, but I needto see my bones or I will hate myself even more and Imight cut out my heart or take every pill that was evermade."

Insecurity

"The smoke shifted direction and I breathed in. Breathed out. On the inhale I was angry. On the exhale there it was again. Fear. The fear made me angry and the anger made me afraid and I wasn't sure who he was anymore. Or who I was."

Fear

"I want to be in fifth grade again. Now, that is a deep dark secret, almost as big as the other one. Fifth grade was easy -- old enough to play outside without Mom, too young to go off the block. The perfect leash length."

Emotion

"You're the one who doesn't understand, I've been standing on the edge with you for years."

Relationship

"I just want to sleep. The whole point of not talking about it, of silencing the memory, is to make it go away. It won't. I'll need brain surgery to cut it out of my head."

Psychology

"Yes it is, because you can only be brave if you're scared."

Motivation

"I wonder how long it would take for anyone to notice if I just stopped talking."

Isolation