Anxiety Quotes

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)

One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it.

Fear is one thing. To let fear grab you and swing you around by the tail is another.

When both she and I had to deal with our respective demons, my sister saw the darkness as being with...

God only knew what ran underneath the fierce self-discipline and emotional control that had come wit...

It's the whistling," Laila said to Tariq, "the damn whistling, I hate more than anything" Tariq nodd...

It was that sort of sleep in which you wake every hour and think to yourself that you have not been ...

I think it has other roots, has to do, in part, with a general anxiety in contemporary life... nucle...

Worrying is the most natural and spontaneous of all human functions. It is time to acknowledge this,...

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

To live your life in the fear of losing it is to lose the point of life.

Fear ringed by doubt is my eternal moon.

I’ve gotta stop thinking I know what other people think, cause most of ‘what other people think’ is ...

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and compo...

... rejoicing in a peace which brings only an increase of anxiety,...

And if she had appeared, would I have dared to speak to her?

It is not death that a man should fear he should fear never beginning to live.

The truly fearless think of themselves as normal.

UPYou wake up filled with dread.There seems no reason for it.Morning light sifts through the window,...

And if I talk to him, I'll say something wrong, give something away. I can feel it coming, a betraya...

It's simple,' Kat told them. 'You bombard them with images of what they ought to be, and you make th...

I was brought up,' Freddy informed him, 'not to suffer anxiety about decisive initiative of all type...

Schoolboy days are no happier than the days of afterlife, but we look back upon them regretfully bec...

If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxi...

God is able to give you the power to endure that which cannot be changed... Why be anxious? Come wha...

My experience is that many things are not as bad as I thought they would be.

How can a person deal with anxiety? You might try what one fellow did. He worried so much that he de...

It is very much in the interest of the food industry to exacerbate our anxieties about what to eat, ...

He who fears he shall suffer already suffers what he fears.

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

Things that have happened with Enron and companies like that, where they've squandered their employe...

An anxious heart is like a string that's out of tune.

It sounded, I told him, as if he had never learned to balance projecting goals into the future with ...

Death is not the enemy living in constant fear of it is.

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another step-pingstone to greatness.

I was afraid to go into a restaurant because I was intimidated by the waiters furtively hovering beh...

The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future...

The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.

Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being.

Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertis...

My compulsive thoughts aren't even thoughts, they're absolute certainties and obeying them isn't a c...

Christianity sees in the picture of Jesus as the Christ a human life in which all forms of anxiety a...

Excessive caution destroys the soul and the heart, because living is an act of courage, and an act o...

Anxiety was born in the very same moment as mankind. And since we will never be able to master it, w...

After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn't bring and never has brought happi...

On his thirteenth birthday he had seen a film in which the central character was a painter who, unab...

She went downstairs slowly and sat in front of the fire, rocking herself to and fro as she imagined ...

His terror became his companion. When it seemed to diminish, or grow easier to bear, he forced himse...

A Jewish man with his parents alive is half the time a helpless infant!

Whenever one speaks of lonely people one takes too much for granted. One thinks people all know what...

Years ago, I dated a lovely young woman who was a few thousand dollars in debt. She was completely s...

We all want to go there something awful, but to stand there takes some grace.

Preaching a man a sermon with a broken head and telling him to be right with God is equal to telling...

While doubt cannot be expelled, it can be subdued.

It was more than a spider. It was every unknown terror in the world fused into wriggling, poison-jaw...

The more you pray, the less you'll panic. The more you worship, the less you worry. You'll feel more...

Many problems can be solved by a man not frightened by them.

Lord, grant us rest tonight, and if we must be wakeful, cheerful.

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb,...

When a parent shows up with an attitude of entitlement, understand that under it is a boatload of an...

The threat of frustration of a biological urge does not cause conflict and anxiety unless that urge ...

Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from bore...

Because it is possible to create — creating one’s self, willing to be one’s self, as well as creatin...

One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of our...

It is very difficult to appreciate from the outside what a person in severe anxiety is experiencing....

Creative people, as I see them, are distinguished by the fact that they can live with anxiety, even ...

I'm the problem of anxiety we must, therefore, always ask the question of what vital value is being ...

Anxiety has a purpose. Originally the purpose was to protect the existence of the caveman from wild ...

But, as is obvious to any observer, many people are thrown into anxiety by situations which are not ...

in this type of anxiety neurosis the anxious attitude is so intimately a part of the individual's me...

anxiety, with its concomitant feelings of helplessness, isolation, and conflict, is an exceedingly p...

The line between 'normal' and 'neurotic' begins to appear when any activity becomes compulsive - tha...

Intense fatigue or illness may also weaken the control of the cortex. Hence we find tired or sick pe...

A fear is a reaction to a specific danger, to which the individual can make a specific adjustment. B...

But attempts to evade anxiety are not only doomed to failure. In running from anxiety you lose your ...

The threat, thus, in anxiety is not necessarily more intense than fear. Rather, it attacks us on a d...

Neurotic anxiety, therefore, is that which occurs when the incapacity for coping adequately with thr...

One means of allaying anxiety is frantic activity. The anxiety arising out of the dilemma of powerle...