Anxiety Quotes

We are terrified by the idea of being terrified.

Sometimes, too often, I don't want to muster the energy. Stress and anxiety seem easier.

The price we have paid for expecting to be so much more than our ancestors is a perpetual anxiety that we are far from being all we might be.

A lack of narrative structure, as you know, will cause anxiety.

Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline under Your Law.

Behind every flinch is a fear or an anxiety - sometimes rational, sometimes not. Without the fear, there is no flinch. But wiping out the fear isn't what's important - facing it is.

Mattie sat at the table, obsessing, orbiting around herself. She was sick of her worried, hostile mind. It would have killed her long before, she felt, if it hadn't needed the transportation.

Dishonoring what we feel is an epidemic that has us self-medicating as a culture and trying to numb ourselves.

Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.

Fear, anxiety and neurosis: that's just in the suitcase when you're an actor.

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

I wondered what you'd have on the side with a plate of Deep Fried Anxiety. Pickles? Coleslaw? Potato-strychnine mash?

Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition.

Fear of death is worse than dying.

To some people, I may seem calm. But if you could peer beneath the surface, you would see that I'm like a duck--paddling, paddling, paddling.

Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers - danger, death, and live ammunition.

as the determinants of high status keep shifting, so, too, naturally, will the triggers of status anxiety be altered.

I watch worry and anxiety being pandered to through technology which is neutral.

He is much to be dreaded who stands in dread of poverty.

Rapid change, accommodating it can be one of the great human capacities. But living through it can be the stuff of stress and often suffering.

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

Greed is supported by an endless cast of what-ifs. Greedy people can never have enough to satisfy the need they feel in light of every conceivable eventuality.

Let pressure pass over and through you. That way you can't be harmed by it.

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

Jesus paid a high price for your peace. Don't give it away.

Panic---a deep abiding, free-floating anxiety, often without any reason or logical basis.

Her stillness was such a contrast to all the jumbled communication inside me that I suddenly felt what a tiresome fellow I was, always filling the air with the rattle of words and anxieties.

The incessant anxiety and strain of some is a well-nigh incurable form of disease. We are made to exaggerate the importance of what we do; and yet how much is not done by us!

My touchstone is just fear and anxiety and I know a lot about those two awful emotions.

The fear of doing right is the grand treason in times of danger.

To him who is afraid, everything rustles.

Stress and anxiety at work have less to do with the work we do and more to do with weak management and leadership.

I did not write about that kind of insecurity and anxiety between myself and my brothers, because my father was the dominant male figure as I was growing up in that home.

Lois and Alexander are by far the most beautiful creatures in the class; their beauty is like the beauty of plants, seemingly untroubled by vanity, anxiety or effort.

Anxiety in human life is what squeaking and grinding are in machinery that is not oiled. In life, trust is the oil.

Notwithstanding all the care and anxiety of the persons who frame Acts of Parliament to guard against every event, it frequently turns out that certain cases were not foreseen.

My fears and anxieties throughout my whole life have been slowly squeezing my voice.

More time [to decide] without more information just creates anxiety, not insight.

Anxiety prepares the organism badly for an ordeal which even under more favorable circumstances would not be an easy thing to bear.

The happier a man, the more apt he is to tremble. In hearts exclusively tender, anxiety and jealousy are in exact proportion to happiness.

Twixt hope and fear, anxiety and anger.

any writer is inevitably going to work with his own anxieties and desires. If the book is any good it has got to have in it the fire of a personal unconscious mind.

Anxiety is good for nothing if we can't turn it into a defense.

When you sit quietly and look inside, things that seem so difficult on the outside become a lot easier to digest. Concerns that might've caused a lot of anxiety just come and go.

The level of concern and anxiety among scientists - and I guess I'd say the science-friendly public - about the place of science in society in government, has gone beyond concern to anxiety.

I think that there's a lot of anxiety out there in people wanting their children to be part of the mainstream, to achieve based on the well-worn yardsticks.

As you kind of get over the anxiety about [science and evolution], it actually adds to your sense of awe about this amazing universe that we live in, it doesn't subtract from it at all.

That is the greatest source of my anxiety on this film [The Hobbit], is that I'm going to be lynched.

I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.

Hence the tension, the anxiety, the anguish of humanity. The more you fight with death, the more anxiety-ridden you will become, you are bound to become. That's a natural consequence of it.