Anxiety Quotes · Page 55

“There was the anxiety that one day would not follow the next, combined with the certainty that it would.”

— Jhumpa Lahiri

Education is the only interest worthy the deep, controlling anxiety of the thoughtful man.

— Wendell Phillips

I used to get the most anxiety before shows because I really was never prepared.

— Syd

I don't like going on stage. Stages mean 'nervous' for me.

— Dale Earnhardt Jr

“Most people are about as happy as their self confidence will allow them to be.”

— Shannon L. Alder

The wise are free from perplexities; the virtuous from anxiety; and the bold from fear.

— Confucius

“Worry wasn’t an emotion to which he was particularly accustomed—and it worried him.”

— Sol Luckman

The thing is, I really like working. If I sit around too much, I get really bad anxiety.

— Grimes

When I was teaching, I gave a lot of my mind and anxiety to it. There was always something clenched and anxious…

— Seamus Heaney

There is a lot of anxiety in India about writers selling out to foreign audiences, but I’m neither flattering the Indian audience…

— Pankaj Mishra

To worry is to become accessible, unwittingly accessible. And once you worry you cling to anything out of desperation; and once you…

— Carlos Castaneda

The basic anxiety, the anxiety of a finite being about the threat of non-being, cannot be eliminated. It belongs to existence itself.

— Paul Tillich

“In a really enjoyable game, the players are balanced on the fine line between boredom and anxiety. The same is true when…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Is any novelist going to recognize the moment when he or she has nothing more to say? It is a brave thing…

— Julian Barnes

“When our lives are frantic and frenzied, we are more prone to anxiety, resentment, impatience, and irritability.”

— Kevin DeYoung

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great…

— Anonymous

“One school of thought says that the best way to handle an issue like this is exposure therapy," Mad Rogan said. "For…

— Ilona Andrews

When I had independence, it was a constant battle within me to figure out when am I on my own. And also…

— Al Jaffee

The fear and anxiety that infect humanity today are the results of this degradation of values, this ignorance of what is of…

— Sathya Sai Baba

No doubt I do act in 'bad faith' when I deliberately avoid facing an honest decision and follow the conventional pattern of…

— John Macquarrie

“But his anxiety communicated itself to room 120, where the patient awakened and began to look for his head, and to room…

— Mikhail Bulgakov

“But if we define the Megaphone as the composite of the hundreds of voices we hear each day that come to us…

— George Saunders

Even more than the depression, it was my anxiety and agitation that became the defining symptoms of my illness. Like epileptic seizures,…

— Douglas Bloch

The playfulness that I talk about comes very slowly. You cannot just jump out of your seriousness which you have accumulated for…

— Rajneesh

“We are all the product of our past and have to live with our memories and personality they cannot be erased.”

— Jane Hersey

“We all want to go there something awful, but to stand there takes some grace.”

— Rich Mullins

Grief and constant anxiety kill nearly as many women as men die on the battlefield.

— Bill Vaughan

Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose

— Eckhart Tolle

The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it

— Carl Sagan

[Rumors are a] vehicle for anxieties and aspirations that may not be openly expressed.

— James Scott

Worry is like rocking in a rocking chair all day, because it keeps you busy but gets you nowhere.

— Joyce Meyer

Smile, breathe, and go slowly. Thich Nhat Hanh Don't try to steer the river.

— Deepak Chopra

“I wasn't worried, though. I just needed a break and I wasn't going to give up.”

— Patti Smith

Free-diving is all about dealing with anxiety. I've blacked out a few times. I've had big black-outs.

— Tanc Sade

The first sign of a nervous breakdown is when you start thinking your work is terribly important.

— Milo Bloom

Im nervous but I'm about to kill it cause they about to let the realist team in.

— Drake

Nobody panics when things go “according to plan”. Even if the plan is horrifying!

— Heath Ledger

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

— Ovid

To grow old means to be rid of anxieties about the past.

— Stefan Zweig

I was a really nervous kid. I was extremely sensitive. Incredibly perceptive.

— Ryan Reynolds