If you have anxiety, then you probably have a hard time explaining what it feels like to people. Those lucky people who sail through life hardly worrying about anything simply cannot get their head around the concept of anxiety.
How everyone experiences anxiety is different, but there are some symptoms and feelings that most sufferers can identify with. I wrote a blog post where I tried to pinpoint how anxiety feels, so you might want to have a read.
But if you just want a quick reference point, or to read through fellow anxiety sufferer’s descriptions of how it feels, then keep reading. I have searched the web for what I feel are the most accurate quotes and descriptions.
Everyone’s used to seeing ridiculously positive and upbeat quotes in social media news feeds, personally, a lot of these make me want to yell at my screen. So, I thought, why not share a selection of positive and negative quotes, and descriptions of real, raw feelings that could actually do something positive. I have also found some surprisingly useful celebrity quotes about anxiety.
When you suffer from anxiety it’s soothing to hear other people’s stories and helpful to see that there are lots of others who are going through the same thing as you.
Check out these thought provoking quotes that might be helpful for anxiety sufferers. When you are having an attack, or can feel one coming on, you might just want to read these, as they may give you some perspective.
- Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- If I get stuck in a crowd, I think, oh my god, I’m going to die. Something’s going to go wrong, and someone’s going to stab me. – Demi Lovato
- If you miss a step on the stairs and your stomach lurches, anxiety feels like that, but lasts much longer. – healthyplace.com
- Sometimes I panic to the point where I don’t know what I’m thinking or doing. – Dakota Johnson
- It’s sad actually, because my anxiety keeps me from enjoying things as much as I should at this age. – Amanda Seyfried
- Just because I can’t explain the feelings causing my anxiety, doesn’t make them any less valid. – Lauren Elizabeth
- I’m scared of audiences. One show in Amsterdam, I was so nervous, I escaped out the fire exit. – Adele
- Anxiety can be as huge as the big blue sea, but remember that the sea is made up of smaller waves. – Kellie Jo Holly
- Telling someone with anxiety to calm down is like telling someone with epilepsy to just stop having a seizure. – healthyplace.com
- No matter how irrational I may sound, it’s real to me. – Lorri Smith
- Anxiety is one little tree in your forest. Step back and look at the whole forest. – Unknown
- My body thinks something is gravely wrong, but my brain doesn’t have a clue what to do about it, so it starts racing to the worst possible conclusions. – healthyplace.com
- Don’t let your mind bully your body into believing it must carry the burden of its worries. – Astrid Alauda
- We must be willing to let go of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. – Joseph Campbell
- Don’t believe everything you think. – Unknown
- (Slow breathing) is like an anchor in the midst of an emotional storm: the anchor won’t make the storm goes away, but it will hold you steady until it passes. – Russ Harri
- Anxiety is like quicksand, the harder we struggle to escape, the deeper we sink. – anxietynomore.co.uk
- Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained. – Robert Albert Bloch
- He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear. – Michel de Montaigne
- We cannot escape fear. We can only transform it into a companion that accompanies us on all our exciting adventures. – Susan Jeffers
- I’m not afraid of storms for I’m learning how to sail my ship. – Louisa May Alcott
- The best use of imagination is creativity. The Worst use of imagination is anxiety. – Deepak Chopra
- Depression, anxiety and panic attacks are not a sign of weakness. They are signs of trying to remain strong for far too long. – healthyplace.com
- A panic attack goes from 0 to 100 in an instant. It’s halfway between feeling like you’ll faint and like you’ll die. – healthyplace.com
- The first time I had a panic attack, I was sitting in my friend’s house, and I thought the house was burning down. I called my mom, and she brought me home. For the next three years it just wouldn’t stop. – Emma Stone
