Quotes on Anxiety

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.

Author: David Antin

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.

Author: Alain Botton

Kindness is the cause of all anxiety.

Author: David Burns

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.

Author: Rosanne Cash

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

Author: 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.

Author: Rita Coolidge

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.

Author: Richard Curtis

Still today, I cannot cross the threshold of a teaching institution without physical symptoms, in my chest and my stomach, of discomfort or anxiety. And yet I have never left school.

Author: Jacques Derrida

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

Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky

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.

Author: Fred Durst

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.

Author: Daniel Goleman

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

Author: John Hawkes

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.

Author: Tom Hooper

I had turned my anxiety into my profession.

Author: Francois Jacob

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

Author: Thomas Kempis

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

Author: Rose Kennedy

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Author: Soren Kierkegaard

The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety.

Author: Norman Mailer

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

Author: Edvard Munch

Concentration is a fine antidote to anxiety.

Author: Jack Nicklaus

There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.

Author: Ovid

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.

Author: Philip Pullman

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

Author: Peter Stuyvesant

The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction.

Author: Alexis Tocqueville

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.

Author: Emily Watson

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

Author: Daniel Yergin

Embrace uncertainty and trust the process, for it is often in the unknown that we find our true path.

Author: Maya Patel

Life is like a potted plant; it needs light, love, and occasional watering – just avoid the temptation to over-feed it with anxiety.

Author: Amelia Fisher