Venus Williams Quotes

I told the doctor I was overtired, anxiety-ridden, compulsively active, constantly depressed, with recurring fits of paranoia. Turns out I'm normal.

Pressure feels sort of normal to me.

Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation and everything that is finest in human history.

To grapple with and understand anxiety is, in some sense, to grapple with and understand the human condition.

I think most human beings go through some sort of depression in their life. And if they don't, I think that's weird.

I am neurotic, but I live with it. I think most people are, anyway.

The role of anxiety in the development of human personality is central, and it is intricate beyond our understanding.

I don't get hung up a lot on angst.

Everyone gets scared from time to time. It's totally normal, and anyone who says otherwise is a liar.

I am a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man!

Moods are such an essential part of the substance of life, of one's notion of oneself, that even psychotic extremes in mood and behavior somehow can be seen as temporary, even understandable, reactions to what life has dealt.

The stress that some of us feel - it's a lack of faith, it really is.

You don't get depressed because bad things happen to you. That's getting pissed off and annoyed. That's reasonable. Someone hits you in the face you go ow, you know that's... but depression is something that happens like weather to you inside you.

I'm a normal person. I have emotions.

In short? It is exhausting being me. Pretending to be normal is draining and requires amazing amounts of energy and Xanax.

Looking to any angry, anxious, or otherwise stressed emotional state to help you sort out the pain you're in is like trying to organize your monthly bills by throwing them into a blender

It's kind of a little fly-on-the-wall look at these people trying to stay sane.

Anger simply means that your personal power - your personal space, your personal sense of being - has been violated

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

Stress is not the spice of life any more than arsenic is. And without it, you won't feel bored.

Look closer at the stress in your own life and you can identify that negative emotions are always built on counterfactual statements.

I don't think any human being/artist is 100% emotionally stable, based on the human condition and our emotions that relate to it.

Stress is the reason for crime and all other kinds of frustration. To relieve it will eliminate everything else.

The negative effects of combat were nightmares, and I'd get jumpy around certain noises and stuff, but you'd have that after a car accident or a bad divorce. Life's filled with trauma. You don't need to go to war to find it; it's going to find you. We all deal with it, and the effects go away after awhile. At least they did for me.

New diseases like SARS and bird flu cause anxiety in the community. People get worried, some to the extent that it even affects their health. You feel very sad, and yet you must carry on and maintain your cool in very trying and difficult moments. You have to tough it out.