Anxiety Quotes

Anxiety is the gap between now and later.

Nobody owns anything but everyone is rich - for what greater wealth can there be than cheerfulness, peace of mind, and freedom from anxiety?

If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.

Real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.

After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go onto permanent alert, as if the danger might return at any moment.

The sexual freedom of today for most people is really only a convention, an obligation, a social duty, a social anxiety, a necessary feature of the consumer's way of life.

For me, its always a failure of the imagination. I have that anxiety that time is passing, that everything is ultimately fleeting and impermanent. I better take advantage of every single moment.

We may assume that we keep people waiting symbolically because we do not wish to see them and that our anxiety is due not to being late, but to having to see them at all.

The biggest big business in America is not steel, automobiles, or television. It is the manufacture, refinement and distribution of anxiety.

A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

The solar system has no anxiety about its reputation.

We have a strange anxiety in us; that if we don't interfere then it won't happen. Now that's the root of an enormous amount of trouble.

When ypu awaken love and laughter in your life, your mind lets go of fear and anxiety, and your happy spirit becomes the healing balm that transforms every aspect of your human experience.

Anxiety is our agitated soul scrambling for control.

I do hope I play out the contradictions that I feel, all the anxieties and dilemmas. If they're there in the work, then that's brilliant.

We must never be discouraged or give way to anxiety. . . but ever have recourse to the adorable Heart of Jesus.

I told the doctor I was overtired, anxiety-ridden, compulsively active, constantly depressed, with recurring fits of paranoia. Turns out I'm normal.

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.

Anxiety and Ennui are the Scylla and Charybdis on which the bark of human happiness is most often wrecked.

Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles.

The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.

We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.

Let us throw ourselves into the ocean of His goodness, where every failing will be canceled and anxiety turned into love.

Fear ringed by doubt is my eternal moon.

Victory over fear is the first spiritual duty of man.

You should never get nervous about anything. What today seems important tomorrow isn't so any more.

You should never hesitate to trade your cow for a handful of magic beans.

Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.

I’m interested in using the iconography of nature and the American landscape as surrogates or metaphors for psychological anxiety, fear or desire

The basic anxiety, the anxiety of a finite being about the threat of non-being, cannot be eliminated. It belongs to existence itself.

You belong in the most secret part of you. Don’t worry about cool, make your own uncool. Make your own, your own world. If you fear, make it work for you—draw and paint your fear and anxiety.

Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation and everything that is finest in human history.

Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale.

I had the chance to make every possible mistake and figure out a way to recover from it. Once you realize there is life after mistakes, you gain a self-confidence that never goes away.

The bravest man feels an anxiety 'circa praecordia' as he enters the battle; but he dreads disgrace yet more.

To be an inventor, you have to be willing to live with a sense of uncertainty, to work in this darkness and grope towards an answer, to put up with anxiety about whether there is an answer.

One in six people suffer depression or a chronic anxiety disorder. These are not the worried well but those in severe mental pain with conditions crippling enough to prevent them living normal lives.

I like trains. I like their rhythm, and I like the freedom of being suspended between two places, all anxieties of purpose taken care of: for this moment I know where I am going.

Fear is felt by writers at every level. Anxiety accompanies the first word they put on paper and the last.

Math anxiety: an intense lifelong fear of two trains approaching each other at speeds of 60 and 80 MPH.

When you get over the anxiety, you discover you should have been mad a long time ago.

Our stresses, anxieties, pains, and problems arise because we do not see the world, others, or even ourselves as worthy of love

Though it may feel otherwise, enjoying life is no more dangerous than apprehending it with continuous anxiety and gloom.

When you leave the familiar and enter the unknown, your fear becomes refined by experience and hammered into tools of survival on the anvil of anxiety.

Anxiety in children is originally nothing other than an expression of the fact they are feeling the loss of the person they love.

The surest way to escape anxiety and defeat despair is action. Do, don't dwell.

Forget about what you are escaping from. Reserve your anxiety for what you are escaping to.

I try not to worry about the future - so I take each day just one anxiety attack at a time.