Anxiety Attacks Quotes

• I try not to worry about the future - so I take each day just one anxiety attack at a time.

  Tom Wilson

  Funny Life, Worry, Anxiety

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• I remember being onstage once when I didn't have fear: I got so scared I didn't have fear that it brought on an anxiety attack.

  Carly Simon

  Fear, Anxiety, Scared

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• You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.

  David Foster Wallace

  Life, Thinking, People

  "Infinite Jest". Book by David Foster Wallace, February 1, 1996.

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• I could not bounce back from my divorce - emotionally - I just could not bounce back.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Divorce, Bounce

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• There is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness.

  David Foster Wallace

  Kindness, Infinite Jest, Jest

  David Foster Wallace (2011). “Infinite Jest”, p.146, Hachette UK

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• That sometimes human beings have to just sit in one place and, like, hurt. That you will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do. That there is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness. That it is possible to fall asleep during an anxiety attack. That concentrating on anything is very hard work.

  David Foster Wallace

  Hurt, Kindness, Fall

  "Infinite Jest". Book by David Foster Wallace, February 1, 1996.

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• If I ignore my work, I start having anxiety attacks.

  Rosanne Cash

  Anxiety, Ifs

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• I'm a really skinny guy, I'm real tall, and I have a very high metabolism, so if I drink anything with caffeine in it, it makes me have an anxiety attack. So I can't do coffee, or cola, or coffee ice cream, or any of those things. They make me feel like I'm going berserk.

  Mark Hosler

  Real, Coffee, Ice

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• One of my first jobs was in Italy and that's where I saw cocaine for the first time. There was a murder in our group that weekend. I decided then and there that I would never do drugs. I have anxiety attacks, so there's no way I could do them.

  Linda Evangelista

  Jobs, Weekend, Anxiety

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• When you realize that you are an eternal being, you will laugh at things that used to give you anxiety attacks.

  Stephen Baxter

  Giving, Laughing, Anxiety

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• I was able to be distant by portraying another person, another character, if you will, and I found myself not stuttering and not having anxiety attacks when I was portraying another soul, another being, and I found comfort in that. I think many actors do, playing someone other than themselves.

  Pam Grier

  Character, Thinking, Anxiety

  "Actress Pam Grier". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 13, 2010.

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• I like my coffee like I like my romantic partners: cold and bitter and prone to giving me anxiety attacks.

  Moby

  Coffee, Giving, Anxiety

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. February 5, 2014.

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• Even more than the depression, it was my anxiety and agitation that became the defining symptoms of my illness. Like epileptic seizures, a series of frenzied anxiety attacks would descend upon me without warning. My body was possessed by a chaotic, demonic force which led to my shaking, pacing and violently hitting myself across the chest or in the head. This self-flagellation seemed to provide a physical outlet for my invisible torment, as if I were letting steam out of a pressure cooker.

  Douglas Bloch

  Self, Anxiety, Pressure

  Douglas Bloch (1999). “When Going Through Hell...Dont' Stop!: A Survivor's Guide to Overcoming Anxiety and Clinical Depression”, p.17, BookBaby

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• I was about to meet Beyonce, and I had a full-blown anxiety attack. Then she popped in looking gorgeous, and said, "You're amazing! When I listen to you I feel like I'm listening to God."

  Adele

  Anxiety, Listening, Gorgeous

  "Adele Opens Up About Her Inspirations, Looks and Stage Fright". Interview with Toure, www.rollingstone.com. April 28, 2011.

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• The hardest thing to write was explaining what anxiety feels like. Every time I'd try to really write about what it feels like to have an anxiety attack, I would actually have an anxiety attack. It was good material but so incredibly uncomfortable.

  Jenny Lawson

  Writing, Anxiety, Trying

  "Sassy Bloggess Jenny Lawson Mandates Cheesecake for Everyone...and for You to Read Her (Mostly True) Memoir, Out Today". Interview with Meredith Turits, www.glamour.com. April 17, 2012.

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• I get shitty scared. One show in Amsterdam, I was so nervous I escaped out the fire exit. I've thrown up a couple of times. Once in Brussels, I projectile-vomited on someone. I just gotta bear it. But I don't like touring. I have anxiety attacks a lot.

  Adele

  Couple, Fire, Anxiety

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• I don't know any woman who doesn't have an anxiety attack about wearing a bathing suit.

  Vanessa Marcil

  Anxiety, Suits, Knows

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Pale, nervous girls with black-rimmed glasses and blunt-cut hair lolled around on sofas, riffling Penguin Classics provocatively. [...] But it wasn’t just intellectual experiences—they were peddling emotional ones, too. For fifty bucks, I learned, you could “relate without getting close.” For a hundred, a girl would lend you her Bartok records, have dinner, and then let you watch while she had an anxiety attack.

  Woody Allen

  Girl, Cutting, Emotional

  "The Whore of Mensa". www.newyorker.com. December 16, 1974.

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• Avoiding problems doesn't make them go away - you think it does, but it really doesn't. They're just postponed. Those problems just stay inside your subconscious and brew until your body gets to a point where it's had enough and decides to release some of the stress itself. That's what an anxiety attack is! It happens when you don't know how to vent your frustration, fears, stress, sadness, madness, whatever it is that bothers you, the things you should be confronting and getting closure with. If you don't confront these things and deal with them, your body does it for you.

  Sully Erna

  Stress, Sadness, Thinking

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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 an anxiety attack. When you're in the throes of one, it's hard to feel anything other than utter misery and terror.

  Scott Stossel

  Anxiety, Misery, Easy

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• Look at it this way: There are many here among us for whom the life force is best represented by the livid twitching of one tortured nerve, or even a full-scale anxiety attack. I do not subscribe to this point of view 100 percent, but I understand it, have lived it. Thus the shriek, the caterwaul, the chainsaw gnarlgnashing, the yowl and the whizz that decapitates may be reheard by the adventurous or emotionally damaged as mellifluous bursts of unarguable affirmation.

  Lester Bangs

  Views, Anxiety, Nerves

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• I could not bounce back from my divorce - emotionally - I just could not bounce back. With any bad situations I’d experienced before - a bad game or my two previous divorces - I got over them. This time I just could not get out of the hole. The anxiety attacks were frequent and extensive. I had weight loss, which I’d never had before. I couldn’t stop crying. And if I wasn’t crying, I was angry, bitter, hateful and mean-spirited. I couldn’t sleep - couldn’t concentrate. It just got crazy.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Crazy, Mean, Sleep

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