Anxiety Quotes

I never had the... common anxiety as to whether abstract painting had a given 'meaning.

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.

We used to moralize; today we normalize, and performance anxiety is the secular version of our old religious guilt.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Twixt hope and fear, anxiety and anger.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

To him who is afraid, everything rustles.

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

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

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!

The fears and anxieties and obsessions wrapped up in being a parent.

Few things hold the perception more thoroughly captive than anxiety about what we have got to say

My music started as a way to break through weaknesses - like anxiety, which was completely taking over my whole life, where I could barely function.

I love the anxiety, the pressure of the loud room full of yapping kids. But I'm a kid myself.

I've seen looks before that have literally taken my breath away - like someone on the red carpet and it's just like I can't even breathe, like you get some type of amazing anxiety.

I am not into publicity. I'm not good at it. I get anxiety about it.

To fear the worst oft cures the worst.

Fear, born of the stern matron Responsibility, sits on one's shoulders like some heavy imp of darkness, and one is preoccupied and, possibly, cantankerous.

He was of an impressible nature, and lived a great deal in other people's opinions and feelings concerning himself.

Learn the lesson of your pain

A situation in a public office is secure, but laborious and mechanical, and without the great springs of life, hope and fear.

Freedom from care and anxiety of mind is a blessing, which I apprehend such people enjoy in higher perfection than most others, and is of the utmost consequence.

But away from the rituals of Washington, alongside the elation of [Donald] Trump supporters, there is deep anxiety, anger and fear.

I'm a firm believer in anxiety and the power of negative thinking.

Be aware of anxiety. Next to sin, thee is nothing that so troubles the mind, stains the heart, distresses the soul, and confuses the judgment.

Many of the snarly bad-tempered teachers whom we remember with hatred were really nice people soured by years of anxiety and penny-pinching.

Act the way that you want to feel.

The anxiety of falling in love could not find repose except in bed.

There is no actual stress or anxiety in the world, your thoughts create these false beliefs.

When I finally got to 30, I'll admit that there was a little anxiety, but at the same time I actually really liked it.

I do not have the angst and the anxiety of my youth. I've gotten to a place where I'm very comfortable with who I am.

The participants expressed anxiety about the problems the Defense Ministry had been meeting in realizing its plans for future development.

Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born.

Anxiety is a natural thing humans have. You know, that's how we evolve. That's how we are, you know, we think things through. Sometimes my mind just thinks things through a lot.

I think that for me, as far as audience expectations and how you manage your anxiety, it helps to keep things in perspective.

I've been on antidepressants for years, and it worked to stop my anxiety and didn't limit creativity. Some of the best work I've done, in fact, is after I started taking the antidepressants.