Anxiety Quotes
Sad Quotes about Anxiety

Every tomorrow has two handles.
We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety
or the handle of faith.
- Henry Ward Beecher

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
- Soren Kierkegaard

All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony.
Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace.
- Rumi

If anyone is unhappy, remember that
his unhappiness is his own fault...
Nothing else is the cause of anxiety or loss of tranquility
except our own opinion.
- Epictetus

Anxiety is love's greatest killer.
It makes one feel as you might
when a drowning man holds unto you.
You want to save him, but you know
he will strangle you with his panic.
- Anais Nin

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow...
but only empties today of its strength.
- C. H. Spurgeon

There are moments when all anxiety
and stated toil are becalmed
in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.
- Henry David Thoreau

Food can become such a point of anxiety -
not because it's food,
but just because you have anxiety.
That's how eating disorders develop.
- Vanessa Carlton

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet,
isn't much better than tedious disease.
- Alexander Pope

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

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

Americans are the only people in the world known to
me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their
college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.
- Paul Fussell

That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young.
And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.
- Philip Pullman

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

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.
- Richard Curtis

We are living in a new age of energy supply anxiety.
- Daniel Yergin

Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.
- Demosthenes

I think there's an anxiety in life where we automatically
tend to look to the next thing or we're complaining about the past.
Worrying is not going to make it happen or not happen.
- Sherilyn Fenn

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.
- Will Durst

There's an insecure part of me that comes out of me,
I get nervous.
I don't know why, I wish I could overcome it because
it gives me an anxiety feeling.
- Fred Durst

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
- Plato

A premium in the oil price of somewhere between 10
to 15 dollars a barrel reflects this heightened anxiety.
- Daniel Yergin

What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?
- Thomas Kempis

Money is a strange thing.
It ranks with love as our greatest source of joy,
and with death as our greatest source of anxiety.
- Joe Moore

A large part of the present anxiety to improve the
education of girls and women is also due to the conviction
that the political disabilities of women will not be maintained.
- Millicent Fawcett

Status anxiety definitely exists at a political level.
Many Iraqis were annoyed with the US essentially for reasons of status:
for not showing them respect,
for humiliating them.
- Alain de Botton

Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part,
the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's
tools and yesterday's concepts.
- Marshall McLuhan

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

Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety.
It is a long succession of little decisions simply
to be happy in the moment.
- J. Donald Walters

The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears
when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.
- Paul Tillich

It's a whole different kind of anxiety.
But the great thing about doing a theatre job is that
once the ball starts rolling you just have to go with it,
it's inexorable.
- Emily Watson

What I wasn't prepared for were the feelings of anxiety that it stirred in me.
I wasn't prepared for the initial feeling of I don't
want to have to do that again.
I was scared.
- Mariel Hemingway

There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear.
Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
- Christian Nestell Bovee

I always felt that I had anxiety of survival in terms
of livelihood even when I was making plenty of money.
- Leonard Baskin

There is always one person on the set who has a lot of anxiety,
an actor who is really intense and has to stay in character
and holds himself away from the rest of us.
- Maria Bello

It has been said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow,
but only empties today of its strength.
- Charles Spurgeon

Living the Unconcerned Life is living
a life without anxiety or worry -
especially in those situations where anxiety and worry
would seem to be expected and "natural."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

My mother's suicide attempts were a way to release
anxiety and get attention.
Some of the attempts were drug reactions she didn't even remember later on.
- Lorna Luft

At some stages of your life you will deal with things
and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety.
- Nigella Lawson

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.
- T. S. Eliot

On the night before we were married,
all of the anxiety in the world came down upon me.
- John Hawkes

I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety.
- George Murray

Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity.
- Chuck Jones

I had turned my anxiety into my profession.
- Francois Jacob

Anxiety is the beginning of conscience,
which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.
- Angela Carter

Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out,
the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within.
- David Duchovny

The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety.
- Norman Mailer

Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder.
- Edvard Munch

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

It is not the least anxiety that we have so little powder and lead on hand.
- Peter Stuyvesant

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.
- William Falconer

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

When a parent shows up with an attitude of entitlement,
understand that under it is a boatload of anxiety.
- Robert Evans

Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in
an atmosphere of anxiety.
- Rose Kennedy

Many people today don't want honest answers insofar
as honest means unpleasant or disturbing,
They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety.
- Louis Kronenberger

A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is.
- Pauline Kael

Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant
and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky

When I left home, I was going to ride around a little
while and then go to my mom's.
As I rode and rode and rode, I felt even more anxiety
coming upon me about not wanting to live.
- Susan Smith

Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess
who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God.
- Thomas Kempis

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.
- Ken Follett

Kindness is the cause of all anxiety.
- David D. Burns

For as long as I can remember I have suffered from
a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.
- Edvard Munch

I believe a lot of disease comes from anxiety,
loneliness.
- Tom Cochrane

If I'm driving to L.A.
and have anxiety about making the drive,
if I've got Peggy with me, we're cool.
- Rita Coolidge

I remember being onstage once when I didn't have fear:
I got so scared I didn't have fear that it brought on an anxiety attack.
- Carly Simon

Anthropology never has had a distinct subject matter,
and because it doesn't have a real method,
there's a great deal of anxiety over what it is.
- Clifford Geertz

And I kind of said to myself if I get my voice back
I'm not going to take back the old anxiety about it
and just focus on the limitations.
I'm really going to enjoy it.
- Rosanne Cash

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

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.
- David Antin

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows,
but only empties today of its strength.
- Charles Spurgeon

Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.
- Emile M. Cioran