Anxiety Quote by Irvine Welsh

A life of fear and anxiety is the ultimate form of self hate. Why confine yourself to a dark window of your soul when…

— Josh Q

In the past, I think I was scared of showing myself. I thought people disliked me because I received so much hate when I…

— BoA

I was painfully self-obsessed and self-aware. I wanted people to love me but at the same time I was terrified of them.

— Jimmy Somerville

I grew up very self-loathing. I was a phobic. I had anxiety. I had panic attacks.

— Dane Cook

I was terrified of growing up to become the anti-me, maturing into a woman whom I would not recognise and who wouldn't recognise her…

— Lionel Shriver

I was afraid of not living up to what people expected me to be.

— Brigitte Bardot

I had gone through life thinking that I was better than everyone else and at the same time, being afraid of everyone. I was…

— Dennis Wholey

Eventually, I sickened of people, myself included, who didn't think enough of themselves to make something of themselves- people who did only what they…

— Mark Twain

I was not afraid of what I did not like. To overcome dislike of a thing often satisfied one's feeling of honour.

— Georg Brandes

And yet I understood the alienation of being around others who couldn't really see you or chose not to. I'd felt the self-loathing that…

— Sylvia Day

In that one instance I hated everyone in my life, everyone and everything, and me most of all.

— Anonymous

I registered the dukkha of self-aversion with such clarity that I knew there was no freedom unless I could love this life without holding…

— Tara Brach