Quotes About Panic

#1. I would suggest that the prisons I incessantly create are not designed to lock me in, rather they are designed to lock the world out. And the oddity is that either way, I am a prisoner who has sentenced himself to a prison within which I do not belong.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#2. It can hit at any time [anxiety/panic attack]. You feel like you're in an open field, and there's a tornado coming at you. And you're just consumed by it.

Kim Basinger

#3. I had panic attacks during rehearsal. There were times when I really thought I wasn't going to be able to do it.

William Petersen

#4. Don't show it and don't panic. Do like the ducks; on the surface stay calm, and below it paddle lile hell

Dan Brown

#5. Gliomas appeared on the same side of the brain that the phone was predominantly held, further tightening the link. An avalanche of panic ensued in the media.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#6. Rip Rig & Panic was a milestone for me, and I've always been really thankful that I did that when I was 16. It saved me for when I suddenly became really successful later on. So even when my head's been spinning like a banshee, my feet still feel held down to the ground.

Neneh Cherry

#7. I order you not to die," Tsunami said, grabbing his shoulder. "Clay, stop, STOP IT. Stop dying RIGHT NOW." Her normally bossy voice was full of panic.

Tui T. Sutherland

#8. Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.

Helen Keller

#9. Love, always love. Perhaps that's what we're all looking for. And if we don't get it early enough we panic in case we never shall.

P.D. James

#10. drag her nest, struggling with its weight, toward the hole in the base of the tree. The other animals which occupied the jungle were beginning to panic. They ran away from the danger

R.W.K. Clark

#11. When you sit tranquilly, you set a great example to the people who rush around in panic and thus you show the crazy waves the beauty of being a calm lake!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#12. In a moment of panic, he reached back and grasped the large punch bowl, still three quarters full of bright red juice and an assortment of fruit slices. He lifted it above his head and threatened the growing crowd.

"Stand back," he said. "I will splash you all.

Christopher Meades

#13. You lost your way in the darkness? Don't panic; that will be your best light!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#14. IT FEELS AS though I'm splintering into a dozen directions at once - grief, then rage, then panic. The last thing I need right now is to lose it. Instead I force my mind to go to the place that always calms and centers me: painting.

Anonymous

#15. I smell panic," said Serge. "These are different animals now. They're starting to winnow out the weak at the fringe of the herd. We need to hurry or this could affect our snack situation.

Tim Dorsey

#16. The panic attacks - I still have them. They started when I was around 8. They always have to do with my death.

Patty Duke

#17. The next time you're disappointed, don't panic. Don't give up. Just be patient and let God remind you He's still in control.

Max Lucado

#18. And even in my panic, I hear the music in his deep voice, the sounds of singing. I close my eyes, imagining my breath is his own, that he is with me

Ally Condie

#19. Powerful new drug-free treatments have been developed for depression and for every conceivable type of anxiety, such as chronic worrying, shyness, public speaking anxiety, test anxiety, phobias, and panic attacks. The goal of the treatment is not just partial improvement but full recovery.

David D. Burns

#20. After he'd gone, she'd suffered a momentary, nearly immobilizing flash of panic
what if the Hunters somehow managed to find her while he was gone?
but it dissipated swiftly, leaving her astonished to realize that she truly trust him to keep her safe, at least from everything besides himself.

Karen Marie Moning

#21. The service at this airport restaurant is so bad I'm starting to panic that I'm a ghost.

Kristen Schaal

#22. I didn't introduce thug life to America. Thug life is America. I don't get why the whole world is fearing me. I am scared, but so are they. It's like I am having a panic attack cause I have 15,000 people wanting to do what I want, listing to everything I say.

Tupac Shakur

#23. When I was 13 or 14, my parents had a bit of a windfall so bought a lovely new kitchen, but I burnt it down. I was making cheese on toast when flames escaped from the grill. My father stopped the fire with blind panic and excessive water. I was forgiven, but it put me off cooking for years.

Erin O'Connor

#24. The only hope I can see for the future depends on a wiser and braver use of the reason, not a panic flight from it.

F.L. Lucas

#25. Being stress and anxiety free is a human preset, I just show you how to 'flick the switch' to off. Permanent stress and anxiety recovery is possible quickly and simply despite what many are told.

Charles Linden

#26. If you try to control it too much, the book is dead. You have to let it fall apart quite early on and let it start doing its own thing. And that takes nerve, not to panic that the book you were going to write is not the book you will have at the end of the day.

Anne Enright

#27. Sometimes you panic and find yourself emitting remarks so profoundly inane that you would be embarrassed to say them to your dog. Your dog would look at you and think to itself, 'I may lick myself in public, but I'd never say anything as stupid as that.'

Dave Barry

#28. When panic sets in, my advice is to fast and read the Book of Mormon for at least a half hour.

John Wright

#29. Mum would have a panic attack if she had to stand up and give a speech around a table.

Lily James

#30. I panic every time I put out a record. I think every artist does.

Madonna Ciccone

#31. Nobody panics when things go "according to plan". Even if the plan is horrifying!

Heath Ledger

#32. Don't panic. Panic will kill you when nothing else wants to.

Elizabeth Haydon

#33. This is not the time to panic, this is the time to praise!

Cynthia Patterson

#34. I just want to know what I'm going to be freaking out about before I waste energy freaking out about the wrong things. Conservation of panic is important.

Mira Grant

#35. They no longer panicked when they heard skittering noises in the wall or under the bed. If the noises where in the bed, they allowed themselves some panic. This had happened more than once.

Cassandra Clare

#36. Anybody can be decisive during a panic; it takes a strong man to act during a boom.

V.S. Naipaul

#37. In this whole screwed-up town, you're the only thing that's always been right to me," he whispered. "I love you, Claire." She saw something that might have been just a flash of panic go across his expression, but then he steadied again. "I can't believe I'm saying this, but I do. I love you.

Rachel Caine

#38. Sometimes heroism is nothing more than patience, curiosity, and a refusal to panic.

Leif Enger

#39. It's always so nerve-wracking being up there on stage. It's even harder playing in your hometown - and I have a couple of home towns - but, you're playing for all the people you knew in high school, so it causes no small degree of panic in my mind.

Nellie McKay

#40. There is nothing wrong with feeling cold in Alaska at -70 degrees. It's when you feel nothing at all that it times to panic

Sergeant Major

#41. Enjoy your life ... everyday. When trouble comes don't panic. Be still and pray. It's a test so pass it. Be obedient to your faith.

Michael Barbarulo

#42. Never make a decision when you are in panic or drunk

Stephen Moore

#43. Clearly she was expected to say something, but panic at having to speak stole the thoughts from her head.

Shannon Hale

#44. Given the extent of the exposures of major banks around the world to A.I.G., and in light of the extreme fragility of the system, there was a significant risk that A.I.G.'s failure could have sparked a global banking panic.

Ben Bernanke

#45. Having people wait outside of my house sort of gives me a panic attack. I'm a believer in the concept that people should not be followed and photographed everywhere.

Nikki Reed

#46. We used to call it her Cinderella complex, because often when she had agreed to go out in the evening she would be seized by panic and announce that she had nothing to wear.

Emma Donoghue

#47. When I first started writing, I did mostly short fiction, and I'd work on a short story and get near to being done and have no idea what I'd work on next, and then I'd panic.

Ann Leckie

#48. Bad sales managers push two buttons: 'more' and 'panic.' Great sales managers have one more button to push: the 'how'.

Chris Lytle

#49. The road you travel might horribly get narrower; do not panic! Keep your spirits high; the road will get wider!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#50. Panic reared up through me, hot and blazing and blurry, and that was it.

Kendall Kulper

#51. The importance of fear as a factor in war-making cannot be overlooked, and can hardly be overestimated. Any politician can play on panic when he wishes to stampede a people into war.

Maude Royden

#52. If you ever get in real trouble, don't panic. Sit down and think about it. Remember two things, always. There must be some way out of it and there must be humor in it somewhere.

Louise Fitzhugh

#53. There is a kind of fear, approaching a panic, that's spreading through the Baby Boom Generation, which has suddenly discovered that it will have to provide for its own retirement.

Ron Chernow

#54. Sometimes I have problems where I get into a mode where even just looking at a page on a screen makes me panic. And getting past that is a really intense thing to do.

Rachel Swirsky

#55. The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

Alan W. Watts

#56. Even though this is something I know I want, I start to panic a little, until I remember the person I trust more than anyone else in the world. Jase. And I decide he's right. We'll figure it out together.

Huntley Fitzpatrick

#57. His fight has no panic in it. I wonder if he has any plans or if he is just as desperate as I am? He

Ernest Hemingway,

#58. I am at that age when you panic at the slightest thing.

Rupert Everett

#59. Panic attacks are a lot like being drunk in some ways, you lose self-control. You cry for seemingly no reason. You deal with the hangover long into the next day.

Sara Barnard

#60. As Donald Trump continues to dominate the 2016 field, the Republican establishment's low-grade anxiety is becoming an all-out panic

Dalia Mogahed

#61. The criteria of agency and ownership distinguish structural dissociation from other manifestations of insufficient integration such as intruding panic attacks in panic disorder or intrusions of negative cognitions in major depression.

Onno Van Der Hart

#62. If you ever get started on the right path to change, there is one important precondition you have to meet. You must rid yourself of that gnawing and overpowering sense of urgency and panic that always seems to appear on the scene.

Phillip C. McGraw

#63. Was that a personal call, Cammie?" he asked with a shrewd glance. I had a brief moment of panic before composing myself. "Yes. It was my gynecologist. He wanted to discuss my latest pap smear. Do you want to know how the cells on my cervix are doing?

R.S. Grey

#64. Nothing matters so much that we should throw ourselves into a state of panic about it.
No happening is so important that we should let ourselves be exiled
from from inner peace and mental calm for its sake.

Paul Brunton

#65. My life story is structured by reckless reenactments of panic and flight.

Merri Lisa Johnson

#66. The first thing was not to panic, because all panic does is escalate the problem. (This is the first mistake that people make in situations like this: the cats lose their pee and the humans lose their shit.)

Jackson Galaxy

#67. I fought, I fought harder ... but one cell at a time, panic crept into my body, taking me over.

Jesse Owens

#68. 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

#69. I felt once again the unease of arriving at night in an unknown city
that faint sour panic which seems to cling to a place until one has found oneself a bed.

Laurie Lee

#70. The intelligent investor should recognize that market panics can create great prices for good companies and good prices for great companies.

Benjamin Graham

#71. But you can't shut Panic up, you know? She's a screaming, thrashing bitch, and she wanted out.

Leylah Attar

#72. Rock climbers and long-distance ocean swimmers will tell you it isn't the mountain or the water that kills - it is panic

Gavin De Becker

#73. Feel no fear before the multitude of men, do not run in panic,
but let each man bear his shield straight toward the fore-fighters,
regarding his own life as hateful and holding the dark spirits of death as dear as the radiance of the sun.

Tyrtaeus

#74. The seriousness of my situation started to sink in, and again I fought panic. I pushed it down, but it was harder this time, like my insides were an open can of shaken soda and I was trying to keep it from bubbling up out of the top.

Abby Sunderland

#75. The panic that had filled him was subsiding, perhaps having burned itself out.

Steven Erikson

#76. Panic is more like protection from the danger, stuff when they don't go on plan it's a code on "how much humans we are"...

Deyth Banger

#77. Panic might feel like a bad thing, but in actual fact, it contains thousands of little splinters of hope. When panic is gone, it usually means that those splinters are gone too.

Sarah Moore Fitzgerald

#78. I will try not to panic, to keep my standard of living modest and to work steadily, even shyly, in the spirit of those medieval carvers who so fondly sculpted the undersides of choir seats.

John Updike

#79. I stated to panic again.

Farah Oomerbhoy

#80. I found my way home, stripped naked, and lay on the bathroom floor, the cool tiles pushing up. Keeping me from falling. I didn't know how long the floor would hold me. I prayed Ellen would come home ...

Juliann Garey

#81. After my divorce, painting took me out of panic mode and into a serene, calm place. I could absolutely lose myself.

Jane Seymour

#82. Bitcoin is getting there but it's not there yet. When it gets there, expect governments to panic and society to be reshaped into something where governments cannot rely on taxing income nor wealth for running their operations.

Rick Falkvinge

#83. If anyone ever asks you what panic is, now you can tell them: an emotional blank spot that leaves you feeling as if you've been sucking on a mouthful of pennies.

Stephen King

#84. When we panic, we instinctively turn to our own internal resources because we doubt Him.

Charles R. Swindoll

#85. I have terrible panic attacks. I usually get so tired from crying and being in pain that my only way out is sleeping.

Soko

#86. Sometimes I panic and think I can't really write.

Sara Paretsky

#87. The humming of my parents' voices from behind my bedroom wall, which throughout my childhood had filled me with a sense of security, had now become a source of anxiety and panic.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#88. As a kid, I couldn't articulate it but I sought out things that could. At first it was horror films - extreme panic and terror, grotesque and maniacal. These films calmed me and made me feel more connected in my experiences.

Tony Burgess

#89. Anything can happen; this is the very rule of this universe! The best defence against this rule is this: Don't panic!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#90. Anxiety is secretive. He does not trust anyone, not even his friends, Worry, Terror, Doubt and Panic ... He likes to visit me late at night when I am alone and exhausted. I have never slept with him, but he kissed me on the forehead once, and I had a headache for two years ...

J. Ruth Gendler

#91. I think it's hard to understand in economics. It's easier to understand on psychology.It's a kind of panic or a sense that the world economy is just not in as good shape as we thought and so everybody is chasing everybody else.

David Wessel

#92. I don't feel panic or shock. There's just a sense of defeat. This is it.

Marieke Nijkamp

#93. It made our hair stand up in panic fear.

Sophocles

#94. I remarked to Dennis that easily half the code I was writing in Multics was error recovery code. He said, "We left all that stuff out of Unix. If there's an error, we have this routine called panic, and when it is called, the machine crashes, and you holler down the hall, 'Hey, reboot it.'"

Tom Van Vleck

#95. Ray's voice echoes in my head from one of his many self-defense lectures.
It's the panic that's gonna kill you or get you seriously hurt, Annie.

E.L. James

#96. Freeze or panic.

Judith Liere

#97. Oh, get off it with that. So sensitive about language. Mate, love, nest, whatever. Point is, it stinks, especially when it goes bad. I get wanting to run away.

Jackson Lanzing

#98. The night moves at the speed of panic.

Matt Haig

#99. I'm just trying to get my body in shape so that I can handle it. It's a very physically demanding thing. I've been doing it for 16 years, so I know what I'm going into now. I'm trying to stay calm and not panic.

Andrew Bird

#100. It is well known that panic, despair, depression, hate, rage, exasperation, frustration all produce negative biochemical changes in the body.

Norman Cousins