Anxiety Quote by Hermann Hesse

“He is full of adrenaline, his nerves are shot, and his mind is cluttered up with free-floating anxiety-floating around on an ocean of generalized…

— Neal Stephenson

“He felt nervous and excited an happy and kind of filled with dread, all at the same time. It was the most emotion he'd…

— James Patterson

“And in these times, people were always in danger of becoming less than fully themselves. If you terrorised them enough, they became something else,…

— Julian Barnes

“Strength and victory... What he would never praise himself for, but whose loss was his most obsessive fear.”

— Simona Panova

“He did not care what the end would be, and in his lucid moments overvalued his indifference. The danger, when not seen, has the…

— Joseph Conrad

“The fear came from the fact that what he did was unpredictable. He did not play by the rules, and once those rules had…

— Siri Hustvedt

“And just like in his horror movies and books, people did stupid things when faced with overwhelming stress and fear.”

— Hunter Shea

“To be anxious wasn’t shameful, it was a high calling. It was to be alive to life’s contradictions, more receptive to the true nature…

— Daniel B. Smith

“I had heartsickness, shame, and fear bordering on panic, and no complete escape any longer except in oblivion.”

— Alcoholics Anonymous

“A rush of panic comforted him with its familiarity.”

— Patricia Highsmith

“Fear was the worst evil ever to plague a man, for with it came hesitation and with that, inaction, failure, death.”

— Melissa McPhail

“What was difficult to deal with was his permanent anxiety: when we were little, he was afraid we’d go and play outside or wander…

— Benoît Peeters