Anxiety Quotes

Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.

Arthur Somers Roche

When I lie down I say When shall I arise and the night be gone? And I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.

Bible

If I had a formula for bypassing trouble I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favour. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble. That's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

Trouble is a part of your life and if you don't share it you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.

Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom sharpen the sensitivity and assure the presence of tension that is necessary to preserve human existence.

Rollo May

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck and ask anyone the house is never burgled and the ship never goes down.

Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Søren Kierkegaard

Anxiety is fear of one's self.

Fear ringed by doubt is my eternal moon.

Worries go down better with soup than without.

Neurotic means he is not as sensible as I am and psychotic means he's even worse than my brother-in-law.

Anxiety is the interest paid on trouble before it is due.

Dean William R. Inge

There is a difference between a psychopath and a neurotic. A psychopath thinks two and two are five. A neurotic knows that two and two are four but he worries about it.

Anonymous

Worrying helps you some. It seems as if you are doing something when you're worrying.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

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

Thornton Wilder

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They are more afraid of life than death.

James F. Byrnes

Death does not frighten me but dying obscurely and above all uselessly does.

Isabelle Eberhardt

Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.

A good life fears not life nor death.

He who fears death cannot enjoy life.

Spanish Proverb

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.

Erik H. Erikson

To live your life in the fear of losing it is to lose the point of life.

It is not death we fear but the thought of it.

Marcus Annaeus Seneca

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded but the fear of pain or death.

Epictetus

Death is not the enemy living in constant fear of it is.

We must act in spite of fear ... not because of it.

Anonymous

I have accepted fear as a part of life-specifically the fear of change. ... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back....

I may be compelled to face danger but never fear it and while our soldiers can stand and fight I can stand and feed and nurse them.

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

Vincent van Gogh

Fear is one thing. To let fear grab you and swing you around by the tail is another.

Katherine Paterson

I have not ceased being fearful but I have ceased to let fear control me.

Nothing puzzles me more than time and space yet nothing troubles me less.

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing and the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase.

William Congreve

Studies by Medical Corps psychiatrists of combat fatigue cases ... found that fear of killing rather than fear of being killed was the most common cause of battle failure and that fear of failure ran a strong second.

S. L. A. Marshall

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another step-pingstone to greatness.

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

Billie Jean King

We fear our highest possibility (as well as our lowest one). We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.

The ambitious climb high and perilous stairs and never care how to come down the desire of rising hath swallowed up their fear of a fall.

It is not death that a man should fear he should fear never beginning to live.

Marcus Aurelius

Don't be afraid your life will end be afraid it will never begin.

Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be all right.

Alice Thomas Ellis

The worst of all fears is the fear of living.

Theodore Roosevelt

Life is to life in such a way that we are not afraid to die.

Teresa of Avila.

Those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end but rather that it shall never have a beginning.

John Henry Cardinal Newman

People living deeply have no fear of death.

Fear of death is worse than dying.

J. C. F. von Schiller

The fear of life is the favorite disease of the twentieth century.

William Lyon Phelps

How often the fear of one evil leads into a worse.

Nicolas Bouleau-Despreaux

Fears are educated into us and can if we wish be educated out.

Dr. Karl Menninger

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn.

Marianne Williamson

Human beings are born with just two basic fears. One is the fear of loud noises. The other is the fear of falling. All other fears must be learned.

Needless fear and panic over disease or misfortune that seldom materialize are simply bad habits. By proper ventilation and illumination of the mind it is possible to cultivate tolerance poise and real courage.

Elie Metchnikoff

We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.

William Faulkner

Victory over fear is the first spiritual duty of man.

Nicholas Berdyaev

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

Louisa May Alcott

One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it.

Katherine Anne Porter

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