"Many nights, I would begin the evening fueled……" — Scott Stossel
"Many nights, I would begin the evening fueled by caffeine and nicotine, which I needed to propel me out of torpor and hopelessness - only to overshoot into quaking, quivering anxiety."
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20 Quotes by Scott Stossel
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Generally speaking, the anxiety will pass, which is easy for me to say when I'm not in the middle of…
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To some people, I may seem calm. But if you could peer beneath the surface, you would see that I'm…
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To say that my anxiety is reducible to the ions in my amygdala”—the home of the fight-or-flight reflex—“is as limiting…
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It is an irony of medical history that even as Freud's later work would make him the progenitor of modern…
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During high school, I would purposely lose tennis and squash matches to escape the agony of anxiety that competitive situations…
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Anxiety has afflicted me all my life.
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I have, since the age of about 2, been a twitchy bundle of phobias, fears, and neuroses. And I have,…
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When I was 5 and my sister was 3, we went on a family trip, and she ate cheese off…
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I had no trouble with strangers finding out about my anxiety. It was my friends and colleagues I was concerned…
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To grapple with and understand anxiety is, in some sense, to grapple with and understand the human condition.
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To say that my anxiety is reducible to the ions in my amygdala is as limiting as saying that my…
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An astonishing portion of my life is built around trying to evade vomiting and preparing for the eventuality that I…
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More Anxiety Quotes
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
— Aristotle
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Now is the age of anxiety.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we…
— Lord Acton
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I know a lot of shows are like, 'Here's the pages,' right before they start filming. I'd have a heart…
— Alan Ball
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I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else - but I'm absolutely nothing special.
— Clive Barker
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Gather experience... Look at what you should not look at. A feeling of anxiety is the sure and certain evidence…
— Clive Barker
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First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of…
— Saint Basil
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Obama's economic policies obviously have not worked, and have left the American market place with enormous uncertainty and anxiety.
— Bob Beauprez
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Anything you're trying to will is focused on the future; it's always associated with some sort of anxiety that makes…
— Martha Beck
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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.
— Josh Billings
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A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
— Aesop
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