Anxiety Quotes

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces. Never will the world know all it owes to them nor all they have suffered to enrich us.

~ Marcel Proust

For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation.

~ Thornton Wilder

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

I think it has other roots, has to do, in part, with a general anxiety in contemporary life... nuclear bombs, inequality of possibility and chance, inequality of goods allotted to us, a kind of general racist, unjust attitude that is pervasive.

~ Leonard Baskin

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

~ Robert Evans

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

The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.

~ Dick Cavett

Although the events we appear to perceive in dreams are illusory, our feelings in response to dream content are real. Indeed, most of the events we experience in dreams are real; when we experience feelings, say, anxiety or ecstasy, in dreams, we really do feel anxious or ecstatic at the time.

~ Stephen Laberge

We all have anxiety about things. We all have little insecurities, but eventually you have to face your fears if you want to be successful, and everybody has some fear of failure.

~ Nick Saban

For me, it's 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.

~ Jason Silva

'I am a bad mother.' Every Christmas, this is what I think because the holiday season fills me with such anxiety. I'm sure that other mothers are happily baking cookies, decorating trees, and finding perfect gifts for everyone.

~ Tess Gerritsen

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

~ Henry David Thoreau

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

~ Charles Spurgeon

If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.

~ Martin Heidegger

It's sad, actually, because my anxiety keeps me from enjoying things as much as I should at this age.

~ Amanda Seyfried

Even at age 10, I already knew that I was different from most people. My anxiety disorder was still years from being diagnosed, but it affected me quite deeply. I was too afraid to speak out in class, too nervous to make real friends.

~ Jenny Lawson

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

~ Daniel Yergin

Incidentally, one of the most worrying problems in the impact of Western modernity on traditional culture is that it quite rapidly communicates its own indifference or anxiety or even hostility about age and ageing.

~ Rowan Williams

You'd think true masculinity was just calm and collected happiness. So alpha male that it needs not or worries not. But typically masculine characters are always fighting, and most violence comes from some agitated level of fear and anxiety.

~ Liev Schreiber

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

~ Rose Kennedy

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

~ Aesop

First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of the body, modesty of bearing, a modulated tone of voice, and a well-ordered manner of speech. He should be without anxiety as to his food and drink, and should eat in silence.

~ Saint Basil

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

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

~ Tom Wilson

Now is the age of anxiety.

~ W. H. Auden

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

I think we all have blocks between us and the best version of ourselves, whether it's shyness, insecurity, anxiety, whether it's a physical block, and the story of a person overcoming that block to their best self. It's truly inspiring because I think all of us are engaged in that every day.

~ Tom Hooper

People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

~ Eckhart Tolle

I was about to meet Beyonce, and I had a full-blown anxiety attack. Then she popped in looking gorgeous, and said, 'You're amazing! When I listen to you I feel like I'm listening to God.'

~ Adele

In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.

~ Aiden Wilson Tozer

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

~ Sigmund Freud

A higher rate of urgency does not imply ever-present panic, anxiety, or fear. It means a state in which complacency is virtually absent.

~ John P. Kotter

People who are prone to anxiety are nearly always people-pleasers who fear conflict and negative feelings like anger. When you feel upset, you sweep your problems under the rug because you don't want to upset anyone. You do this so quickly and automatically that you're not even aware you're doing it.

~ David D. Burns

Underneath our nice, friendly facades there is great unease. If I were to scratch below the surface of anyone I would find fear, pain, and anxiety running amok. We all have ways to cover them up. We overeat, over-drink, overwork; we watch too much television.

~ Joko Beck

You need to let go of your fear and anxiety of being judged by others.

~ Gavin Newsom

Fear, anxiety and neurosis: that's just in the suitcase when you're an actor.

~ Laura Linney

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

~ John Kenneth Galbraith

The truth is that there is no actual stress or anxiety in the world; it's your thoughts that create these false beliefs. You can't package stress, touch it, or see it. There are only people engaged in stressful thinking.

~ Wayne Dyer

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

~ Paul Tillich

There isn't anybody out there who doesn't have a mental health issue, whether it's depression, anxiety, or how to cope with relationships. Having OCD is not an embarrassment anymore - for me. Just know that there is help and your life could be better if you go out and seek the help.

~ Howie Mandel