"Worry is a cloud which rains destruction."

Anxiety, Worry, Destruction, Emotion, Mind

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"No matter how cheerful and blameless the day's activities have been, when you wake in the middle of the night there is guilt in the air, a gnawing feeling of everything being slightly off, wrong - you in the wrong, and the world too, as if darkness is a kind of light that shows us the depth we are about to fall into."

John Updike, American Novelist

Anxiety, Guilt, Darkness, Subconscious

"What is there so fearful as the expectation of evil tidings delayed? ... Misery is a more welcome visitant when she comes in her darkest guise and wraps us in perpetual black, for then the heart no longer sickens with disappointed hope.- The Evil Eye."

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, English Author

Anxiety, Fear, Expectation, Delay, Misery

"What are you working on?' Elizabeth asked. Nate could hear her tapping a pencil on her desk. She took notes during their conversations. He didn't know what she did with the notes, but it bothered him.'I have a lecture at the sanctuary in four days.' Why, why had he told her? Why? Now she'd rattle down the mountain in her ancient Mercedes that looked like a Nazi staff car, sit in the audience, and ask all the questions that she knew in advance he couldn't answer."

Christopher Moore, American Novelist

Anxiety, Insecurity, Humor, Anticipation

"I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance, and if you have anxiety about initiating a project, then of course you will associate risk with failure."

Seth Godin, American Writer

Anxiety, Failure, Fear, Risk

"I've never felt so bereft and panicky. What do I do without my phone? How do I function? My hand keeps automatically reaching for my phone in its usual place in my pocket. Every instinct in me wants to text someone, 'OMG, I've lost my phone! ' but how can do that without a bloody phone?"

Sophie Kinsella, British Author

Anxiety, Technology, Truth, Observation

"How did I prepare for night shifts? When I was a small, anxious kid, I checked my mom in her sleep to make sure she was still breathing."

Joyce Rachelle, Filipino Author

Anxiety, Care, Attachment, Memory

"But now he felt as if the whole world were tipping backwards over his head, and this, he couldn't help feeling, was a very worrying thing for the world to do."

Douglas Adams, English Writer

Anxiety, World, Worry, Life

"Could he hear my heart pounding?"

Laurie Halse Anderson, American Author

Anxiety, Fear, Emotion, Heart

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

Cherise Sinclair, American Author

Anxiety, Observation, Truth, Wisdom

"In an era of stress and anxiety, when the present seems unstable and the future unlikely, the natural response is to retreat and withdraw from reality, taking recourse either in fantasies of the future or in modified visions of a half-imagines past."

Alan Moore, British Writer

Anxiety, Stress, Reality, Escape

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"What is there so fearful as the expectation of evil tidings delayed? ... Misery is a more welcome visitant when she comes in her darkest guise and wraps us in perpetual black, for then the heart no longer sickens with disappointed hope.- The Evil Eye."

"I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance, and if you have anxiety about initiating a project, then of course you will associate risk with failure."

"I've never felt so bereft and panicky. What do I do without my phone? How do I function? My hand keeps automatically reaching for my phone in its usual place in my pocket. Every instinct in me wants to text someone, 'OMG, I've lost my phone! ' but how can do that without a bloody phone?"

"How did I prepare for night shifts? When I was a small, anxious kid, I checked my mom in her sleep to make sure she was still breathing."

"But now he felt as if the whole world were tipping backwards over his head, and this, he couldn't help feeling, was a very worrying thing for the world to do."

"Could he hear my heart pounding?"

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

"In an era of stress and anxiety, when the present seems unstable and the future unlikely, the natural response is to retreat and withdraw from reality, taking recourse either in fantasies of the future or in modified visions of a half-imagines past."

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"Not to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one's true interests."

"When the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it."

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