Phone Anxiety Quotes

I've never felt so bereft and panicky. What do I do without my phone? How do I function? My hand keeps automatically reaching for my phone in its usual place in my pocket. Every instinct in me wants to text someone, 'OMG, I've lost my phone! ' but how can do that without a bloody phone?

If you're always worried about being on your phone, then you really are missing out on everything that's happening in front of you.

there is no noise louder than a silent phone.

I'm terrible on the phone. I just text my friends and family and say, 'Hey, I'm in town.'

I don't like being able to be reached. I enjoy my solitude. Even people having my phone number seems like too much.

When I have to take phone calls, I start to sweat and panic. Being on the phone is so weird - hearing a voice without seeing the face so you can't really know the intention behind the voice.

So much in L.A. is waiting. It's so irritating. That's what's good about stand-up. You can go away, and you don't have to sit and wait by your phone. But it is very frustrating.

When I saw a phone on a plane for the first time, I panicked ... I thought people were going to call me.

When I go into a theater, I'm very excited to turn off my phone. But then, of course, I get anxiety.

I remember being 24 in Los Angeles. And up until that moment, when my mom would call my cell phone and it would ring, I would be flushed with some sort of excitement that we all have - a little dopamine rush, when my phone rings - and I'd look down, and it would say, 'Mom.' It used to feel like a job to pick that up.

We've switched to text messages, we do anything we can to avoid being on the phone.

I hate phone calls so I believe in a telephone armistice. To me, the idea of calling someone unprompted is basically saying, 'Hey, stop whatever you're doing and talk to me right now.

Young adults living with a stutter is hard work. How do they handle job interviews? What do they do when the phone rings? How do they 'chat someone up'? All these things the average person takes for granted prove to be a stammerer's biggest challenge.

Teenagers would rather text than talk. They feel calls would reveal too much.

I love texting and DM'ing on Twitter. I will pretty much avoid talking on the phone at all costs.

I don't like phones. You can't be sure people are paying attention to you when you're talking to them.

If someone doesn't respond to a phone call, I think they've died.

It's surprising how you can behave like a 16-year-old in your 60s, or a 17-year-old in your 70s. You know, it's exactly the same. You fall in love with somebody, you start worrying why the phone is not ringing and thinking, 'Can I ring him?'

There have been times I've finished a big job and thought, 'Great, a couple of weeks off.' But then a couple of weeks turns to three weeks and then after a month you're staring at the phone willing it to ring.

I'm terrible at texting people back. It takes me, like, three days. I'm not a big phone person.

I hate the amount of communication, the obligation that you have just by owning a phone.

I hate that there'll be moments in my day and I'll be patting down my legs trying to find my phone. I hate how anxious it makes me feel when I don't have it. When I go on holiday, or I go back to Australia, I put my phone in my bag and I don't worry about it; I think differently and I feel less stressed.

I had an iPhone, and then I'd forget my iPhone at home, and I'd be like, 'God, I feel so good. I'm having such a good day.' And then I'd realize, 'Oh - it's because I'm not checking my email nineteen thousand times.'

A lot of people don't know how to talk on the phone anymore.

There have been times I've been out, and my phone battery is at nine percent, and I was like, 'Time to go home.'