Anxiety Quotes - page 3

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top. (Robert Browning)
Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence. View quote
Angela Carter
Whether a person is spiritual or not, we all seek to get away from the stress, anger, and anxiety of everyday life. Some people drink, do drugs, or do worse to escape, and they hurt themselves in the process. Some people listen to music, mine included, and feel better. View quote
Yanni
At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety. View quote
Nigella Lawson
I think one thing is that anybody who's had to contend with mental illness - whether it's depression, bipolar illness or severe anxiety, whatever - actually has a fair amount of resilience in the sense that they've had to deal with suffering already, personal suffering. View quote
Kay Redfield Jamison
We're in a freefall into future. We don't know where we're going. Things are changing so fast, and always when you're going through a long tunnel, anxiety comes along. And all you have to do to transform your hell into a paradise is to turn your fall into a voluntary act. It's a very interesting shift of perspective and that's all it is... joyful participation in the sorrows and everything changes. View quote
Joseph Campbell
Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment. View quote
Nhat Hanh
Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything - anger, anxiety, or possessions - we cannot be free. View quote
Nhat Hanh
We're hallucinating. And that's what this world is: a mass hallucination, where fear seems more real than love. Fear is an illusion. Our craziness, paranoia, anxiety and trauma are literally all imagined. View quote
Marianne Williamson
It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase. View quote
David Foster Wallace
Writers, at least writers of fiction, are always full of anxiety and worry. (Peter Carey)
Forget about what you are escaping from. Reserve your anxiety for what you are escaping to. View quote
Michael Chabon
Forecasting by bureaucrats tends to be used for anxiety relief rather than for adequate policy making. View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Economic life should be definancialised. We should learn not to use markets as storehouses of value: they do not harbour the certainties that normal citizens require. Citizens should experience anxiety about their own businesses (which they control), not their investments. View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The other thing is that if you rely solely on medication to manage depression or anxiety, for example, you have done nothing to train the mind, so that when you come off the medication, you are just as vulnerable to a relapse as though you had never taken the medication. View quote
Daniel Goleman
The degree of civilization which a people has reached, no doubt, is marked by their anxiety to do as they would be done by. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
I was walking along a path with two friends - the sun was setting - suddenly the sky turned blood red - I paused, feeling exhausted, and leaned on the fence - there was blood and tongues of fire above the blue-black fjord and the city - my friends walked on, and I stood there trembling with anxiety - and I sensed an infinite scream passing through nature. View quote
Edvard Munch
Anxiety prepares the organism badly for an ordeal which even under more favorable circumstances would not be an easy thing to bear. View quote
Henryk Sienkiewicz
If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable grief. View quote
Brené Brown
There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable. View quote
Christian Nestell Bovee
I have been for some time in Retirement, and shall not probably return again to public Life; yet my Anxiety for my Country, in these Times of Danger, makes me sometimes dabble a little in Politicks, and keep up a Correspondence with some Men upon the public Stage. (George Mason)
Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and bright sunshine. View quote
Victor Hugo
The anxiety of falling in love could not find repose except in bed. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
Whatever solace the Christian faith could give was balanced by the anxiety it generated. View quote
Barbara Tuchman
The anxiety of fate is conquered by the self-affirmation of the individual as an infinitely significant microcosmic representation of the universe. View quote
Paul Tillich