Anxiety Quotes

It ate at whatever was warm nearby, and then the coldness settled in permanently. You learned to liv...

Although enlightened people know that an extreme phobia wasn't a form of madness, hey could not help...

People are wrong when they say things like, “I didn’t have time to think.” If you’re really worried,...

I was moving in a narrow range between busy distractedness and a pervasive sadness whose granules se...

The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.

Earthly goods deceive the human heart into believing that they give it security and freedom from wor...

But the Christian also knows that he not only cannot and dare not be anxious, but that there is no n...

The way to misuse our possessions is to use them as an insurance against the morrow. Anxiety is alwa...

Trouble is a part of your life and if you don't share it you don't give the person who loves you a...

It was a myth you couldn't function on opiates: shooting up was one thing but for someone like me-ju...

People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed ...

A man without fear cannot be a slave.

So close to the powers of evil she must have lived that she still breathed more freely in their air.

For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to e...

The thing we fear we bring to pass.

The greatest mistake you can make is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Proust has pointed out that the predisposition to love creates it's own objects: is this not also tr...

I've had to keep defining and defending myself as a writer every single day of my adult life -- cons...

The other day in prayer I said to God, "Look - I understand that an unexamined life is not worth liv...

I have accepted fear as a part of life-specifically the fear of change. ... I have gone ahead despit...

I have not ceased being fearful but I have ceased to let fear control me.

Each new step into his new human existence is frightening. It always means to give up a secure state...

Cowardice ... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imaginatio...

Never miss a party...good for the nerves--like celery.

I had a strong sudden instinct that I must be alone. I didn’t want to see any people at all. I had s...

That is how I experience life, as apocalypse and cataclysm. Each day brings an increasing inability ...

What delicious abandon in the sleep of the child. Where do we lose it?

To accept a little death is worse than death itself.

You must teach me the way you thrust your worries aside and turn to practical matters.

Delay is as dangerous as the wrong answer.

But all remains unchanged.

If I could drown in sleep as I drown in fear I would be no longer alive.

I felt so weak and unhappy that I buried my face in the ground: I could not bear the strain of seein...

God knows we have our own demons to be cast out, our own uncleanness to be cleansed. Neurotic anxiet...

We are terrified by the idea of being terrified.

Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.

Bodily haste and exertion usually leave our thoughts very much at the mercy of our feelings and imag...

In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or t...

How much time is wasted in what is called thought, but is merely care--an anxious idling over the fa...

She told her father Mr. Abram Colhard that she did not like it at all being one being living then. H...

Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.

This sense of insecurity was falling about the entire planet and though people went on doing the thi...

For all his gentleness and humility unto death on the Cross, God does not relinquish his attribute o...

Did you have one of those days today, like a nail in the foot? Did the pterodactyl corpse dropped by...

Aesthetic value emanates from the struggle between texts: in the reader, in language, in the classro...

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and see it throug...

A healthy amount of fear and respect might be a good idea

That's the most important thing for a sickness like ours: a sense of trust. If I put myself in this ...

How can I put this? There's a king of gap between what I think is real and what's really real. I get...

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose o...

that he live in all respects so compactly and preparedly that, if an enemy take the town, he can, li...

In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, an...

Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.

Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.

Go forth to meet the shadowy Future without fear and with a manly heart.

Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.

Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.

If a transaction in progress appeared threatened with failure, if a shipment of goods seemed to have...

Once he traveled to a village to purchase a large rice harvest, but when he arrived the rice had alr...

Like an attack this melancholy comes from time to time. I don't know at what intervals, and slowly c...

Worry is a dividend paid to disaster before it is due.

A scar had been beaten into his mind which would only heal by experience.

If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

Trains induce such terrible anxiety. They image the possibility of total and irrevocable failure. Th...

Whenever he was in company he wanted to get away, and whenever he was alone he wanted company.

He might have been encased in a thick glass bubble, so separate did he feel from his three dining co...

Until the coming of another day of fear, they walked in silence with bowed heads.

I know everything's alright but I want proof and the Buddhas and the Virgin Marys are there remindin...

I began to feel alternately too big and too small. First, I grew so big that I took up the whole str...

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck and ask anyone the house is never burgled...

We can't be in survival mode. We have to be in growth mode.

Even through the dulling effects of the pill, he wanted to be rid of his itching brain, his ignited ...

I always claimed I became the Batman to fight crime. That was a lie. I did it to overcome the fear.

I realized that for the time being I could not trust myself to present a coherent face to the world.

Alcohol has its own well-know defects as a medication for depression but no one has ever suggested -...

This is where I go, when I go:It's a room with no windows and no doors, and walls that are thin enou...

Anxiety's like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you very far.

It is a promise which eminently deserves our observation that all who are united to Christ and ackno...

The problem was that I carried around with me a tendency to feel that other people’s respect for me ...

Only man clogs his happiness with care destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.

We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront u...

We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.

Most of your unhappiness in life comes from the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of t...

Most of your unhappiness in life comes from the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of t...

Most of your unhappiness in life comes from the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of t...

Most of your unhappiness in life comes from the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of t...

All this wondering was the weather vane on top of the building of unrest and of discontent

Free time is death to the anxious, and thank goodness I don't have any of it right now.

I didn't doubt the potential value of paying attention to subconscious cues...problem was, my inner ...

The problem with making a virtual world of oneself is akin to the problem with projecting ourselves ...

We live in the tension between neophillia, or attraction to new things, and neophobia, or fear of ne...

We're in a free fall into the future. We don't know where we're going. Things are changing so fast. ...

He did not care what the end would be, and in his lucid moments overvalued his indifference. The dan...

I am stupid, am I not? What more can I want? If you ask them who is brave--who is true--who is just-...

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectr...

This is glorious!' I cried, and then i looked at the sinner by my side. He sat with his head sunk on...

We need the middle class to feel more confident about its prospects and about its future. We need to...

Mum and Dad were very much friends and up for life. There was no anxiety for anything when I was gro...

He was agitated for some reason that he could not name. (page 35)