Anxiety Quotes

The ancient Greek "oral poets" all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the muse to help them remember.

Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else.

Turn your attention for a while away from the worries and anxieties. Remind yourself of all your many blessings.

Courage has to do with controlling fear and it seems to me that focus has a way of overcoming anxiety.

There is always a state of anxiety, of searching and delving for style.

Few men have led a more active life - bodily or mentally - from a constitutional anxiety for regularity, precision, and order, during fifty years' business career, from which I had retired.

I am unable to describe exactly what is the matter with me; now and then there are horrible fits of anxiety, apparently without cause, or otherwise a feeling of emptiness and fatigue in the head.

The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it

Peace is a fruit of the Spirit, not the byproduct of accumulated wealth.

Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude.

The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

A warrior of the light...never confuses tension with anxiety.

The anxiety of fate is conquered by the self-affirmation of the individual as an infinitely significant microcosmic representation of the universe .

Anxiety is extremely contagious, but so is calm.

What is it that affectionate parents require of their Children; for all their care, anxiety, and toil on their accounts? Only that they would be wise and virtuous, Benevolent and kind.

There is no life without work, anxieties or tensions. Peace is not found in avoiding these but in understanding them and controlling their force.

Learn how to cope, sweet friend. There will always be dark days ahead.

...the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety. The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.

You forgive yourself for every failure because you are trying to do the right thing. God knows that and you know it. Nobody else may know it.

Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries.

Anxiety and anticipation, I was to learn, are the essential ingredients in suffering from pain, as opposed to feeling pain pure and simple.

I am touched by your beautiful anxiety about life.

Do not work self into a state of over-anxiety at the changes that will be found, or attempt to use up the strength and vitality ... Forget not the sources of thine inspiration.

Anxiety and fear produce energy. Where we focus that energy noticeably affects the quality of our lives: focus on the solution, not the problem.

He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.

One of the most anxiety-inducing side effects of the information era is the feeling that you have to know it all.

Anxiety, depression, and suicide don't discriminate based on how much money you have - though it might make it easier for you to get help.

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

Go forth to meet the shadowy Future without fear and with a manly heart.

We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.

When you're appealing to people's fears and anxieties, you can make some gains.

The anxiety of most parents in seeing their sons and daughters enlist does not lie only in the fear of the physical dangers they may encounter.

When we turn our backs on feelings we should deal with, they fester and grow and ultimately consume us. Silence is denial. Silence is anxiety.

To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal.

Worry is the cross which we make for ourselves by over anxiety.

It can hit at any time [anxiety/panic attack]. You feel like you're in an open field, and there's a tornado coming at you. And you're just consumed by it.

For success, the author must make the reader care about the destiny of the principals, and sustain this anxiety, or suspense, for about 100,000 words.

our real fears are the sounds of footsteps walking in the corridors of our minds, and the anxieties, the phantom floatings, they create.

Never miss a party...good for the nerves--like celery.

We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.

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

Put a 'stop-loss' order on your worries. Decide just how much anxiety a thing may be worth- and refuse to give it any more.

Today in May 1938, the world around us suffers from the anxiety which the unemployment of millions brings with it. In Germany we begin to be anxious because we have not enough workmen.

Conditioned Awareness is where we live our lives in guilt over the past and anxiety over the future and never get to experience the present.

I have social anxiety. It's easier up on stage because there's security in being there. When I'm off stage I'm trying not to be a manic freak. I'm quite shy.

A major criterion for judging the anxiety level of any society is the loss of its capacity to be playful.

If, because of anxiety and self-doubt, you procrastinate and only think about working, you'll feel more exhausted than if you'd created for hours.

the boys had learned that laughter stilled anxiety. It cleared away mystery. If you could laugh at something, it erased its importance.

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head.