Best anxiety & terror Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Every writer knows that unless you were born gifted with either supreme confidence or outsize ego, handing in your work holds, in some cases, admitted terror. If that's too strong, at least fairly high anxiety.”

Ifs Knows Strong Born Cases Ego Anxiety Terror Supreme Gifted Supreme Confidence High Anxiety

Book:Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks

Source: Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks

“The secret dread of modern intellectuals, liberals and conservatives alike, the unadmitted terror at the root of their anxiety, which all of their current irrationalities are intended to stave off and to disguise, is the unstated knowledge that Soviet Russia [was] the full, actual, literal, consistent embodiment of the morality of altruism, that Stalin did not corrupt a noble ideal, that this is the only way altruism has to be or can ever be practiced.”

Way Secret Modern Morality Anxiety Ideals Roots Currents Terror Noble Russia Communism Consistent Soviet Dread Disguise Altruism Literal Embodiment Irrationality Soviet Russia

Book:Philosophy: Who Needs It

Source: Philosophy: Who Needs It

“Anxiety is secretive. He does not trust anyone, not even his friends, Worry, Terror, Doubt and Panic ... He likes to visit me late at night when I am alone and exhausted. I have never slept with him, but he kissed me on the forehead once, and I had a headache for two years.”

Years Doe Two Night Worry Doubt Anxiety Late Terror Likes Two Years Panic Exhausted Foreheads Headache Secretive

Author:J. Ruth Gendler

“Think of how much we stress about living up to our "potential," and how it creates anxiety and terror in people; in short, stops them from living their life as fully as they might out of fear and self-loathing.”

People Thinking Self Might Anxiety Stress Terror Loathing Self Loathing

Author:Emily Susan Rapp

“Now there's some night terrors that happen in adults. And if it starts as an adult and you've never had them before, then there might be other things that are happening; it might be anxiety, depression, stress. And that's when you might have more of a thorough psychological evaluation.”

Ifs Might Happens Night Anxiety Happenings Adults Stress Terror Psychological Thorough Evaluation Night Terrors Anxiety Depression

Author:Shelby Harris

“His biggest misgiving came from his concern about the loud crash that was bound to occur and would probably create, if not terror, at least anxiety behind all the doors. But that would have to be risked.”

Ifs Behinds Doors Anxiety Concern Bounds Terror Loud Crash Metamorphosis Misgivings

Book:The Metamorphosis

Source: The Metamorphosis

“So no, I’m not too big on religion...and not very fond of politics or economics either...And why should I be? They are the man-created trinity of terrors that ravages the earth and deceives those I care about. What mental turmoil and anxiety does any human face that is not related to one of those three?”

Men Should Humans Doe Bigs Care Earth Faces Three Anxiety Economics Terror Related Deceiving Should I I Care Turmoil Trinity Human Faces

Author:William P. Young

“The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion-these are the two things that govern us.”

Two Secret Moral Anxiety Bases Terror Two Things

Book:The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings

“From a tale one expects a bit of wildness, of exaggeration and dramatic effect. The tale has no inherent concern with decorum, balance or harmony. ... A tale may not display a great deal of structural, psychological, or narrative sophistication, though it might possess all three, but it seldom takes its eye off its primary goal, the creation of a particular emotional state in its reader. Depending on the tale, that state could be wonder, amazement, shock, terror, anger, anxiety, melancholia, or the momentary frisson of horror.”

“Thanks to the circus between my ears, I can seize upon the smallest disquieting observation and from it extrapolate a terror of cataclysmic proportions.”

I Can Anxiety Ears Terror Observation Thanks Proportion Smallest Circus

Book:Seize The Night

Source: Seize The Night

“Generally speaking, the anxiety will pass, which is easy for me to say when I'm not in the middle of an anxiety attack. When you're in the throes of one, it's hard to feel anything other than utter misery and terror.”

Feels Hard Easy Middle Anxiety Misery Terror Anxiety Attacks

Author:Scott Stossel

“There came a time in every prolonged effort when he had a moment of near panic, or 'terror in a lonely place', the original semantic content of the word. The lonely place was his own mind.”

Mind Moments Effort Anxiety Lonely Originals Terror Panic Lonely Places

Book:Ratner's Star

Source: Ratner's Star

“Each day befriend a single fear, and the miscellaneous terrors of being human will never join together to form such a morass of vague anxiety that it rules your life from the shadows of the unconscious. We learn to fly not by being fearless, but by the daily practice of courage.”

Humans Together Form Practice Anxiety Shadow Terror Fearless Each Day Unconscious Vague Being Human Miscellaneous Human Will Learn To Fly

Author:Sam Keen

“Many teenagers are tormented by terrors they deem private and personal. They do not know that their anxieties and doubts are universal.”

Knows Doubt Anxiety Universal Terror Teenager Insecurity

Author:Haim Ginott

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