Quotes about Stress
Sometimes it seems to me that I shall never write out all the books I have in my head, because of the strain. The devilish thing about writing is that it calls upon every nerve to hold itself taut. This is exactly what I cannot do--
- Virginia Woolf
You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now.
- Lauren Bacall
Whenever she was particularly discomposed, she always performed one of these pedestrian feats; and the amount of her discomposure might always be estimated by the duration of her walk.
- Charles Dickens
Nothing so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task…
- William James
There is too much unhappiness in football, no?
- Claudio Ranieri
I truly cannot imagine men with men, women with women, doing what they were not physically created to do, without abnormal stress and misbehavior.
- Jerry Falwell
I was fully burnt out - and in some ways I think that was good, because I was just fully numb.
- Bowen Yang
We all know of families who have obligated themselves for more than they could pay. There is a world of heartache behind such cases.
- Ezra Taft Benson
Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system, and profoundly affects the heart." Robert Frost declared, "The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
- Norman Vincent Peale
It is not hard work that drains off energy but emotional upheaval
- Norman Vincent Peale
The point is that our body's core regulatory systems can be altered by traumatic experiences. A child exposed to unpredictable or extreme stress will become what we call dysregulated.
- Oprah Winfrey
Even as an adult, as I tried to sleep, my mind was conditioned to stay in a constant state of arousal, prepared for attack.
- Oprah Winfrey