Anxiety Quotes

The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect...

I’ve found that it’s of some help to think of one’s moods and feelings about the world as being simi...

The narrator, a time traveler from 2011, scoffs at the despondency caused by the Cuban Missile Crisi...

Frightened people live in their own special hell.

I would if somebody would want to but of course nobody would want to so I wouldn't want to force any...

To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one's self.... And to venture in the highes...

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate.

There are times when I'm caught up in everything and I have to say to myself, "Please feel good; ple...

The future is called "perhaps " which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the importa...

The worst of all fears is the fear of living.

Life is to life in such a way that we are not afraid to die.

A good life fears not life nor death.

He that fears not the future may enjoy the present.

A good life fears not life nor death.

He that fears not the future may enjoy the present.

A good life fears not life nor death.

He that fears not the future may enjoy the present.

A good life fears not life nor death.

He that fears not the future may enjoy the present.

A good life fears not life nor death.

He that fears not the future may enjoy the present.

A good life fears not life nor death.

He that fears not the future may enjoy the present.

A good life fears not life nor death.

He that fears not the future may enjoy the present.

A good life fears not life nor death.

He that fears not the future may enjoy the present.

She had been too early habituated to anxious reasoning to drop the habit suddenly.

For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation.

(My ability to turn good news into anxiety is rivaled only by my ability to turn anxiety into chin a...

Panic is something that good operations officers plan for.

We sat talking on a rock. The air was filled with the tang of sea-weed and of something else that co...

Everyone must imagine his own snakes because no one else's snakes can ever be as awful.

You were talking about the wind," the Fillyjonk said suddenly. "A wind that carries off your washing...

His ideas assumed a kind of stupefied and mechanical quality which is peculiar to despair.

The shadow of the passions of the moment transversed this grand and gentle spirit occupied with eter...

My mind turned by anxiety, or other cause, from its scrutiny of blank paper, is like a lost child–wa...

The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge...

In cities where peace and the arts flourish, men are more consumed by jealousy, worry, and anxiety t...

Now is the age of anxiety.

Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.

The pleasure of living and the pleasure of the orgasm are identical. Extreme orgasm anxiety forms th...

Anxiety is fear of one's self.

This capacity for living easily and familiarly at an extraordinary level of abstraction is the sourc...

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing and the overtaking a...

We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.

Without imagination, there can be no genuine ardor in any pursuit or for any acquisition, and withou...

As for the fear, you'll have to put up with that like the rest of us.

Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

No one feels good at four in the morning.If ants feel good at four in the morning—three cheers for t...

I must say a word about fear. It is life’s only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a cl...

I have known many true connoisseurs, with excellent tastes that range across the humanities and the ...

When you're betting for tiles in an archery contest, you shoot with skill. When you're betting for f...

"He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary."

"The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable."

We fear our highest possibility (as well as our lowest one). We are generally afraid to become that ...

I was about to meet Beyonce, and I had a full-blown anxiety attack. Then she popped in looking gorge...

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He ...

The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves ...

Though it may feel otherwise, enjoying life is no more dangerous than apprehending it with continuou...

The Anxiety of Sunday afternoon: your unlived lives and infinite possibility pressing upon the const...

Our feelings of anxiety are genuine but confused signals that something is amiss, and so need to be ...

It is the most ambitious and driven among us who are the most sorely in need of having our reckless ...

Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition.

A sharp decline in actual deprivation may, paradoxically, have been accompanied by an ongoing and ev...

We are tempted to believe that certain achievements and possessions will give us enduring satisfacti...

[L]ife is a phenomenon in need of criticism, for we are, as fallen creatures, in permanent danger of...

Life seems to be a process of replacing one anxiety with another and substituting one desire for ano...

as the determinants of high status keep shifting, so, too, naturally, will the triggers of status an...

In the immediate vicinity, there might well be stability and peace. In the garden, a breeze may be s...

Creating is living doubly. The groping, anxious quest of a Proust, his meticulous collecting of flow...

An uncertain evil causes anxiety because, at the bottom of one's heart, one goes on hoping till the ...

And whatever troubled him and showed in his face might have been the same old trouble - the problem ...

In looking back now, I see how it began in my childhood, altho’ I was not conscious of the necessity...

Your unconscious wants to express the pain you feel about your own lost innocence. But your ego want...

Conscious breathing is the best antidote to stress, anxiety and depression.

Breathing is our participation with the cosmic dance. When our breath is in harmony, cosmos nourishe...

Fixed mindset worries in the nest and the growth mindset dances on the edge.

If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.

When we are aware about our body’s sensations, we can release physical pain, tensions or stress thro...

Calling someone equally as anxious on the phone makes you feel less alone. Sometimes the best thing ...

Sometimes this book stays in the present, other times I try to cut myself in half and count the ring...

Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to...

For our anxiety is the one thing we cannot place on the shoulders of others, it suffocates them.

There is a moment, if you trip or slip, before your hand shoots out to break your fall, when you fee...

Mattie sat at the table, obsessing, orbiting around herself. She was sick of her worried, hostile mi...

Quite collected at cocktail parties,meanwhile in my headI'm undergoing open-heart surgery.

In short, the man displayed a constant and insurmountable impulse to wrap himself in a covering, to ...

For years, I worked seven-day weeks, through birthdays and most public holidays, Christmases and New...

There were times when I would sob until I shook, until my eyelids were so swollen that it pained me ...

In our circle, stress was a valuable status marker: I stress, therefore I am.

I saw that all the things I feared and which feared me had nothing good or bad in them save in so fa...

Ironically, the worship of of death as a strategy for coping with our underlying fear of death's pow...

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure and generally creat...

Those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Men and women who give [Christ] first place find that there is no need for anxiety about this world’...

Hypochondriacs who have a fanciful anxiety about their health will never be well regardless of their...