Anxiety Quotes

If anxiety is the major force of our contemporary condition, a lot of poetry - including my own, mostly - sort of tries to escape that, fly off into magical thinking or bewilderment or whatever.

There is no greater bugbear than a strong willed relative in the circle of his own connections.

We should be worrying about if you live in the city you're more likely to have anxiety or mood disorders and to be schizophrenic. More than the problems people have from social media.

I think anxiety is dangerous, but it makes you think it's your friend.

Comfortless was my religion, anxiety of the anxieties, for I believed God was not love, but courage. Love came only as a reward.

There is a lot of anxiety in India about writers selling out to foreign audiences, but I’m neither flattering the Indian audience nor the American audience. I’m uneasily somewhere in the middle.

I went through a lot of abuse and a lot of really difficult things growing up - depression, anxiety, attempted suicide.

... the effort, diligence, and care required in practicing must be quickly suspended when pressure coming from anxiety or a desire for fast results causes them to degenerate.

Life hardly ever lives up to our anxieties.

Over-anxiety ultimately banishes every trace of joy from life.

The latin word responsibility reveals its true meaning: the capacity to respond, to act. - Over-anxiety ultimately banishes every trace of joy from life.

Writers, at least writers of fiction, are always full of anxiety and worry.

You may have a cat in the room with you without anxiety about anything except eatables. The presence of a cat is positively soothing to a student.

The thing that helped me come to terms with performing was an anxiety, a desperation for acceptance. There was never enough positive motivation in my life.

Consumerism has brought us anxiety. Set aside time to play with your children, and turn off the TV when they sit down to eat.

In many cases your imagination is much more effective than what can be shown. It primes you to know something is about to happen - the anticipation and anxiety is worse than what ends up happening.

The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion-these are the two things that govern us.

One of my greatest anxieties as a mother is head injuries.

When object of our anxiety is God, then that brings ecstacy.

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.

I think the joy of wanting to direct is having that nervous anxiety knowing your film is about to be shown and you're sitting right there with everyone.

The real effect of the WTC calamity has been depressed spirits, anxiety, and uncertainty among publishers, and of course those emotions are not restricted to publishers.

Learning to live in the present tense-one that's free from the failures of the past and the anxieties of the future-is a wonderful gift, and one you always should be striving for.

Well, I am now convinced there is no kind of fear or anxiety anyone has to live with.

There's a very fine line between anxiety and excitement. If you don't let anxiety stop you, you can nudge it over the line.

Anxiety projection can and does occur - in myth, in music, in fiction, and in the doctor's office too. That doesn't make it the basis of everything.

Tenterhooks are the upholstery of the anxious seat.

I think that whenever a nation feels itself to be at is zenith, it starts to feel a creeping sense of anxiety.

I basically never feel like writing. I am a happy-go-lucky, relaxed, fun-seeking kind of person. And working disturbs that, because it puts me in a state of anxiety.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Theres always an anxiety about playing literary characters because one of the great joys of reading books is that you can create your own vision of things.

There is probably no greater anxiety in life than going home to visit your mother for Christmas.

Free-diving is all about dealing with anxiety. I've blacked out a few times. I've had big black-outs.

I do find working with people in the entertainment industry hard. It can cause anxiety and depression.

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.

There's some anxiety the 30 minutes before the show starts. But once you step on stage and face the people, everything goes away, and you have fun and enjoy the audience.

I put that part of myself into both Brendan and Evelyn [from The Thorn and the Blossom] - as well as some of my own anxieties about the academic life!

Whatever our calling, regardless of our fears or anxieties, let us pray and then go and do.