Quotes & Sayings About Stress Kills

We all lie like hell. It wears us out. It is the major source of all human stress. Lying kills people. — Brad Blanton

It is not stress that kills us. It is effective adaptation to stress that allows us to live. — George Vaillant

We may proclaim that stress kills, but in reality it is not stress that kills; it is our reaction to it. Sometimes we react to the Light by finding various ways of shutting it out. But when we shut off the Light, we are in fact killing ourselves - so the idea is not to turn stress away, but to let it in. — Yehuda Berg

Being anxious, or in a painful rush of any kind, kills the possibility of meeting anyone with compassion — Guy Finley

An overweight officer, having delivered a batch of children to the home, started telling one of the guards about his heart problem. "You think you want to be a cop, but you don't, because it kills you," said the officer, mopping his brow. Then he told of another officer with a lung problem, and one who had cancer, and of others who were stress-sick, and of how none of them earned enough to afford decent doctors. Abdul hadn't previously thought of policemen as people with hearts and lungs who worried about money or their health. The world seemed replete with people as bad off as himself, and this made him feel less alone. — Katherine Boo

It's not stress that kills people, but how they react to it. — Robert Ringer

By creating an image of low self- esteem within ourselves, we bomb and terrorize our true self. When we refuse to forgive, we create an insensible war from old grudges. When we allow stress to impede our healthy flow of energy, we create the weapon of destruction that kills humanity. — Forrest Curran

Stress kills, and concentration fulfills. — Franklin Gillette

Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it. — Hans Selye

Nietzsche famously said, 'Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger.' What he failed to stress is that it ALMOST kills you. — Conan O'Brien

Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea — Arthur Frederick Saunders

Avoid doctors like the bubonic plague. On some level I know it's ignorant, but I think the stress of knowing you have a fatal disease kills faster than the disease itself. — Emma Chase

Stress kills when you fuel the initial reaction with negative thoughts, aggressive behavior, belief and trust in the uncomfortable physical and emotional symptoms it causes. Don't fuel it, and watch how fast stress disappears. — Charles F. Glassman