Panic And Anxiety Quotes

“in my experience, the words “now just calm down” almost inevitably have the opposite effect on the person you are speaking to.”
― Elyn R. Saks, The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness

“It's okay to panic. It's okay to be scared and to have no clue what you're doing. As long as you keep going. As long as you keep fighting.”
― K.T. Kaye, Master of Darkness

“Overcoming panic attacks has left me humbled. It’s taught me how to be brave. It’s left me compassionate to the fears and sufferings of other people. It’s given me the wisdom that my thoughts and feelings are simply subjective responses, and don’t need to be taken as true reflections of reality.

But the most important thing I’ve learnt from coping with panic is this: No matter what happens in life, no matter how hard things seem, no matter how painful things are, moments always pass like fluffy clouds in a blue sky, and I will be fine.”
― Julie Farrell

“A person’s industrious and creative mindset can overcome great obstacles that besiege their existence. Humankind’s greatest unraveling is our propensity to panic when confronting the pealing silence of nothingness.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“On the inner side of the aquarium of reality, beliefs define the area of the prison.”
― Robert Neil Fleischer, Alien Biography

“A lot of people confuse movement with progress," Dylan said. "I knew it was a bad idea but what were we gonna do, barricade them in? They weren't ready to face any kind of truth."

I leaned against the wall of the stairwell as Dylan got out his set of keys. The air in here was too thick, full of dust and last breaths. It stank. I hated the stairwell but of course the elevators weren't working anymore; hadn't worked for two months, not since that first day.”
― Hanna Jameson, The Last

“Paralysing, all-consuming panic. I know it well. An enemy so old it’s become a friend.”
― Alma Brooke, Four of a Kind