Best Social Anxiety Quotes

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living.

Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday.

I definitely have an alter ego that can come out and get me out of situations where I’m having social anxiety. I can take a deep breath and create a bubble so I can perform in some way.

Over and over again in my life, I find closeness to other people and proximity to other people really painful; that’s part of my mental illness, social anxiety. Closeness to other people is really hard, but it’s also a shame because it’s all you want too. But it doesn’t always work.

The sexual freedom of today for most people is really only a convention, an obligation, a social duty, a social anxiety, a necessary feature of the consumer’s way of life.

Penology…has become torture and foolishness, a waste of money and a cause of crime…a blotting out of sight and heightening of social anxiety.

I do think economic and social anxiety is the number one issue. And I’m pretty confident Hillary Clinton will be really riding that train pretty hard.

I have social anxiety. It’s easier up on stage because there’s security in being there. When I’m off stage I’m trying not to be a manic freak. I’m quite shy.

I don’t mind being recognized, it’s just that I have a bit of social anxiety, and this situation has increased it. The idea of having to be ‘on’ and social at random times can be difficult. I’ll be out in the morning, someone comes and takes a picture, and then I discover I have toothpaste on my face.

A very sensitive person in this stupid world is bound to become mad…. Only meditation can save him from becoming mad.

For most of my life, I was a worrier and an over-thinker. I had pretty bad social anxiety.

The shy and the extroverted have this in common — that they both fancy they are the center of attention.

The moment I started treating my social anxiety disorder, I started feeling better.

The neurotic is always half-drowning in anxiety, and always being half-rescued.

The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all.

Status and class and social anxiety and perhaps social code are all released when you look at paintings of powerful individuals from the past.

No one is moved to act, or resolves to speak a single word, who does not hope by means of this action or word to release anxiety from his spirit.

From restless thoughts, that, like a deadly swarm Of hornets arm’d, no sooner found alone, But rush upon me thronging.

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.

Well, unless you’ve suffered from panic attacks and social anxiety disorders, which is what I was diagnosed as having, it’s hard to explain it. But you go on stage knowing you’re actually physically going to die. You will keel over and die.

Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere.

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic.

If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

I was having pretty bad anxiety attacks and stuff, and I think a lot of it had to do with my physical environment. Deep down I’ve always had a pretty strong connection with nature, but I’ve suppressed it for so long while living in the city. I think it caught up to me. I started really bugging out and needing wide-open space. So it was that simple. That and social anxiety. I felt like I was existing too much in nightlife.

You have social media and the Internet and immigration and so, suddenly, cultures are clashing and people feel as if they’re less familiar with the people around them. That causes social anxieties.

What makes me deeply vulnerable? Probably the thing I suffer most from and have the most uncontrollable reactions from is still social anxiety.