Top 170 Stressful Quotes

I do explore the city if I have the time for it, but normally, I would rather stay relaxed at home. London can be a stressful place because it’s crowded and it’s a big city.
Alexis Sanchez
I feel more comfortable in drama. Comedy is a high-wire act. I find it stressful. It’s a precision science in a way.
Colin Firth
Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.
Denis Waitley
There have been some stressful months since taking over at Milan, but I think I’ve improved a lot in terms of character.
Gennaro Gattuso
If I’m having a stressful day, I can look at the sky and feel centered again and realize I’m just a tiny little dot in this whole universe and that, actually, everything’s going to be just fine.
Mia Goth
Being a lawyer is absolutely stressful in its own right. But then, doing ‘The Bachelor’ and ‘The Bachelorette’ and all the media afterwards, you can imagine, that’s just like a whole new level of stress.
Rachel Lindsay
It’s always hard being an alternate. Knowing you might not be put in, but you have to work just as hard. It’s stressful.
MyKayla Skinner
You might think that shifting your thoughts is as easy as setting your mind to it. But stressful thoughts aren’t held in place through choice or will power. They’re held in place through perceived truth value.
Andrew J. Bernstein
New York is a very tricky city. I find it very noisy. It’s a jungle, and it’s very stressful at times, but I’m ready for it.
Garbine Muguruza
I don’t think people get the pressure of becoming famous and what it does for an artist. What does that for your creative self. And what that can do for your mental health. And I would say, from year two to year six or eight of ‘Grey’s,’ it was extremely difficult and very stressful and traumatic, if I’m being honest.
Sandra Oh
It’s in the DNA of all the shows that I have done that are about people that are dealing with very stressful situations that are giving them a lot of angst.
Louis Theroux
Well I guess I always look at other people who have maybe more traditional jobs and I think gosh their weeks are so much more stressful and busy than mine.
Alice Levine
Investigative pieces tend to be great stories because t

Investigative pieces tend to be great stories because they haven’t been told before. The process can be frustrating and stressful, but the result is often deeply rewarding.
Mina Kimes
When people are in stressful situations, they do shout.
Nirmal Purja
If a student believes that taking too many exams is hard or skipping advanced courses for a lighter load is a better deal, just wait until he or she goes to college and needs to prepare for finals or has to figure out complex work problems in a stressful environment.
Mercedes Schlapp
As much as only playing clubs can become tedious, performing in huge venues can also become off-putting. To go from one to the other feels great. And sometimes playing clubs can be even more stressful, because you really have to think about what you’re going to tell the audience between songs.
Stromae
Entertaining on any scale can be stressful and daunting.
Pippa Middleton
I wanted to have more time to play and reflect, but I find retirement more stressful than having a nice, steady job because I have to make decisions about where I want to be.
Walter Cronkite
Exercising and eating properly will build your physical and mental strength to endure the stressful situation.
David H. Murdock
I think the most stressful time of my life was when I was in New York, and I didn’t have money to pay my rent.
Chadwick Boseman
When you’re a touring musician, you’re always turning over new rocks, and there’s always a certain level of tension in your life. The music business, and the travel that comes with it, is stressful, challenging, redundant, exhausting, exciting, and often very depressing.
Mark Kozelek
Any kind of creative activity is likely to be stressful. The more anxiety, the more you feel that you are headed in the right direction. Easiness, relaxation, comfort – these are not conditions that usually accompany serious work.
Joyce Carol Oates
I am always in my space and it’s a happy space. It gets stressful at times, but that’s a part and parcel of our job.
Amit Trivedi
There’s a lot of reasons I had to move on. Family’s definitely a big part of it. And the longevity of my career – I played for 15 years, and I was just tired of the whole international scene. It’s quite busy. Very stressful.
AB de Villiers
Film work can be anything from just really hard and stressful and you’re subjected to really weird deadlines to really draconian and weird and disconnected. You’re working in service of the thing, and that can be really amazing for everyone involved, or be kind of just a waste of time.
Oneohtrix Point Never
I love my job, but it can be a little stressful at times. And reading has become a really healthy escape.
Sean Doolittle
There are many factors that affect crime rates. But we recognize that the main reason crime has decreased has always been – and always will be – the dangerous and stressful work done by state and local law enforcement officers day in and day out.
William Barr
Indie movies can be a lot more stressful than studio pictures. The stakes are just as high whether you’re talking $3 million or $40 million.
Brian Reitzell
It’s so nerve-wracking to be on a set. They’re the most stressful place in the world, because you’re making something permanent, and there are so many people relying on you in a lot of ways.
Jesse Eisenberg
When you plant something, you invest in a beautiful future amidst a stressful, chaotic and, at times, downright appalling world.
Monty Don
I’ve been rich; I’ve been poor. I’ve been successful; I’ve been decimated. And the way I felt inside didn’t change dramatically. It’s less stressful to have money, that’s for sure. But that doesn’t mean I felt fulfilled. So I’ve learned to live in the smaller moments of life.
Molly Bloom
Physical exercise is a great way to discharge stressful feelings that accumulate during the day.
Dean Ornish
Swapping a duvet cover is the most stressful chore in the world to me, and I haven’t figured out a way to do it without scuba diving into a giant sac of linen and figuring out if I’m tying the right knots in each corner.
Bowen Yang
I’m a little bit shy and from the Midwest, so to be so open and honest with millions of people is pretty difficult. To have people constantly having an eye on you and very interested in what you’re doing at all times – it can be a little stressful at times.
Connor Franta
I talk to myself quite a lot, and when things get stressful, I just tell myself to breathe.
Maisie Williams
I find it’s more stressful to watch than to play the game.
Carey Price
I look after my skin quite a lot because in this job, it can get stressful. Pimples come out! I cleanse and moisturize, sometimes do face masks. I’ve also got a Clarisonic, which is good.
Jess Glynne
It was a very intense and stressful situation. There was playing in the Johnny-pump (an opened fire hydrant) and the ice-cream man coming around and all of these games that we’d play, and suddenly it would turn just violent and there would be shootings at 12 in the afternoon on any given day.
Jay-Z
Acting is a stressful environment to put yourself into, and stress triggers Tourette’s, but I think it’s partly an outlet because when I’m acting, I’m putting my mind, body, and soul into something, and that’s one of the times during the day when I don’t tic.
Dash Mihok
For the pageants, it was my mother who got me involved in Miss America. It really gave me the opportunity to sing all around New Hampshire. And it was great when I was young, but looking back, it was also unbelievably stressful.
Jane Badler
You know what it’s like to feel anxious – it’s horrible feeling anxious. It’s stressful having that feeling, having butterflies in your stomach, even for a day, and you don’t sleep at night.
Damian Lewis
Network cable reads are always kind of stressful because it’s the first time everyone’s read through it out loud.
Amy Landecker
At home, he’s a 100-percent softie; that’s who he is. I just blew his cover. When Howard has a really stressful day at work or he feels overwhelmed, it’s funny, I point to the foster room. After 30 seconds of being there with these baby kittens or these special needs cats, it just changes your whole mood.
Beth Ostrosky Stern
There's a really unique relationship between a single p

There’s a really unique relationship between a single parent and their child. Marriages so easily break up. There’s kind of this temporary deal about marriages. That’s one of the things that makes it stressful, and that’s something that’s nonexistent in a parent-child relationship.
Jeremy Sisto
When you have harmony in the different areas of your life, with your mind, body, and spirit, you’re just so much stronger, especially in really intense, stressful situations, like ‘Fight Master.’
Frank Shamrock
There are these important things in some people’s lives that can make you laugh even when you’re going through a tough time or a stressful week.
Gillian Jacobs
Being president does seem a lot more stressful than being vice president.
Robert Sapolsky
Working on television is much more stressful than working for a movie. The pace of work is relaxed while shooting a movie.
Ashish Sharma
I seem to get motivated a few months at a time, and then something stressful breaks the routine, and I just fold.
Chris Farley
I work hard, and managing an inventory-based business can be extremely stressful. The upside is that, as long as I get my job done, I can take time off pretty much any time I want.
Anne Taintor
We chose to use a surrogate as the way we wanted to start our family, particularly as I was traveling across the globe on a stressful schedule to get stores open.
Dylan Lauren
Being successful right away is obviously less stressful, but when it takes longer, it’s often sweeter.
Andy Jassy
City life is stressful. Everybody is running around like crazy, stuck in traffic jams trying to make meetings, trying to make ends meet, trying to meet deadlines, trying to get kids to and from activities. There aren’t enough hours in the day for all this business.
Rebecca Pidgeon