Anxious People Quotes

“The problem is that everything is relative. Happiness is based on expectations and we have the internet now. A whole world constantly asking us, "But is your life as perfect as this? Well, how about now? Is it as perfect as this? If it isn't, change it!!" The truth of course is, that if people really were as happy as they look on the internet, they wouldn't spend so much damn time on the internet. Because no one who's having a really good day spends half of it taking pictures of themselves. Anyone can nurture a myth about their life if they have enough manure. So, if the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence, that's probably because it's full of shit.”
― Frederik Backman

“We don't have a plan, we just do our best to get through the day because there'll be another one coming along tomorrow. Sometimes it hurts, it really hurts. For no other reason than the fact that our skin doesn't feel like it's ours. Sometimes we panic, because the bills need paying and we have to be grown up and we don't know how. Because it's so horribly, desperately easy to fail at being grown up. Because everyone loves someone. And anyone who loves someone has had those desperate nights where we lie awake trying to figure out how we can afford to carry on being human beings. Sometimes that makes us do things that seem ridiculous in hindsight but which felt like the only way out, at the time. One, single, really bad idea. That's all it takes.”
― Frederik Backman

“Sometimes it hurts, it really hurts, for no other reason than the fact that our skin doesn't feel like it's ours.”
― Fredrik Backman

“Sometimes it hurts, it really hurts, for no other reason than the fact that our skin doesn't feel like it's ours. Sometimes we panic, because the bills need paying and we have to be grown-up and we don't know how, because it's so horribly, desperately easy to fail at being grown-up.”
― Fredrik Backman

“When you get home this evening, when this day is over and the night takes us, allow yourself a deep breath because we made it through this day as well. There will be another one along tomorrow.”
― Fredrick Backman, Anxious People

“And love can make you do quite a lot of ridiculous things. Getting married, for instance. Having children, playing happy marriage. Not always happy, perhaps, but plausible. A plausible marriage. Because how happy can anyone really be, all the time?”
― Frederick Backman

“There's something romantic about the thought of all the apartments that aren't for sale.”
― Backman Fredrikan

“If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans. Life can go on sorts of different ways but it will probably go wrong.”
― Fredrik Backman

“Anyone can nurture of myth about their life if they have enough manure, so if the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence, that's probably because it's full of shit.”
― Fredrick Backman, Anxious People

“... it's always very easy to declare that other people are idiots, but only if you forget how idiotically difficult being human is. Especially if you have other people you're trying to be a reasonable good human being for.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“Och när det kommer till musik så har mamma lärt mig att man aldrig ska skämmas över vad man lyssnar på. Det finns tillräckligt mycket annat att ha ångest för.”
― Callum Bloodworth, Berätta tre saker

“Perhaps we hurried past each other in a crowd today, and neither of us noticed, and the fibers of your coat brushed against mine for single moment and then we were gone. I don't know who you are.
But when you get home this evening, when this day is over and the night takes us, allow yourself a deep breath. Because we made it through this day as well.
There'll be another one along tomorrow.”
― Frederik Backman

“He was wild with panic. That familiar, friendly darkness kissed the edges of his periphery, soothing, urging him to come into it and feel peace.”
― Molly Collier, The Paragon

“You don't fall in love with a gender, Anna-Lena. You fall in love with an idiot." Anna-Lena started laughing as well, much louder than she usually did. Then they looked at each other. Anna-Lena was twice Julia's age but they had a lot in common just then. Both married to idiots who didn't know the difference between different types of hair.”
― Frederik Backman

“When used carefully, thoughtfully and in conjunction with an overall healthy lifestyle, nootropics can be effective at boosting feelings of well-being and energy, promoting resilience and helping ease feelings of stress and anxiety.”
― Shawn Wells, The Energy Formula: Six life changing ingredients to unleash your limitless potential

“...But falling in love and love are different. Aren't they? Don't they have to be? Good grief, no one could cope with being newly infatuated, year after year. When you're infatuated you can't think about anything else, you forget about your friends, your work, your lunch. If we were infatuated all the time we'd starve to death. And being in love means being infatuated...from time to time. You have to be sensible. The problem is that everything is relative, happiness is based on expectations, and we have the internet now. A whole world constantly asking us: But is your life as perfect as this? Well? How about now? Is it as perfect as this? If it isn't, change it! The truth of course is that if people really were as happy as they look on the internet, they wouldn't spend so much down time on the internet, because no one who's having a really good days spends half of it taking pictures of themselves. Anyone can nurture a myth about their life if they have enough manure, so if the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence, that's probably because it's full of shit. Not that that really makes much difference, because now we've learned that every day needs to be special. Every day.”
― Frederick Backman

“RO: Is this a candy?
. JACK: It’s an eraser.
. JULES: Stop eating everything!
. RO: I was only asking!”
― Fredrik Backman

“He wasn’t perfect, no man is, God knows, but whenever we went anywhere and it was raining, he would always drop me off just outside the door. So I could wait in the warm while he... parked the car.”
― Fredrik Backman

“The most expensive thing that you can buy in the most densely populated places on the planet is distance.”
― Fredrick Backman, Anxious People

“God can not save you from knifes and stones dear, that is why we are here - to save each other.”
― Fredrick Backman, Anxious People

“Lying in bed, the day begins to unfold, and a quiet unease lingers... Will there be enough hours to bring everything waiting in the mind to life?”
― Beatrice

“She was so used to saying what she knew other people wanted to hear, so they wouldn't worry, that she did it without thinking. The nurses still looked worried, suspicious, but she was a good liar. She'd spent her whole life practicing.”
― Fredrik Backman (Author)

“These people couldn’t possibly doubt or worry or sulk. These people couldn’t possibly feel insecurity and shame and pain. These people liked to have fun, and so they did.
Was it really that simple? Could she too reduce herself to such shallow waters and escape the depths that plagued her active mind?
She was so intoxicated by the thought, that she’d convinced herself she could be like them.”
― Molly Collier, The Paragon

“What does anxiety do that it alters the rules of our universe? The world is somehow short of oxygen. The hold of gravity is too strong. It pulls me towards the earth.”
― Natasha Jadoon, Filmi Kismet

“I think we just forget when we're older all the hard things about being a child. I remember feeling anxious a lot of the time. It's not always true that children are happier than adults. Even if you had a nice childhood.”
― Rebecca Wait, I’m Sorry You Feel That Way