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Anxiety Quotes by Scott Stossel
- Generally speaking, the anxiety will pass, which is easy for me to say when I'm not in the middle of an anxiety attack. When you're…
- To say that my anxiety is reducible to the ions in my amygdala”—the home of the fight-or-flight reflex—“is as limiting as saying that my personality…
- During high school, I would purposely lose tennis and squash matches to escape the agony of anxiety that competitive situations would provoke in me.
- Anxiety has afflicted me all my life.
- I have, since the age of about 2, been a twitchy bundle of phobias, fears, and neuroses. And I have, since the age of 10,…
- I had no trouble with strangers finding out about my anxiety. It was my friends and colleagues I was concerned about.
- To grapple with and understand anxiety is, in some sense, to grapple with and understand the human condition.
- Many nights, I would begin the evening fueled by caffeine and nicotine, which I needed to propel me out of torpor and hopelessness - only…
- To say that my anxiety is reducible to the ions in my amygdala is as limiting as saying that my personality or my soul is…
- Barbra Streisand developed overwhelming performance anxiety at the height of her career; for 27 years she refused to perform for the general public, appearing live…
- Carly Simon abandoned the stage for seven years after collapsing from nerves before a concert in Pittsburgh in 1981. When she resumed performing, she would…
- People who suffer from anxiety are very good at hiding it. That can often be a contributor to the anxiety because the gap between the…
- All the textbooks talk about avoidance as a classic hallmark of anxiety disorder. So you need a therapist who is sympathetic and understanding but will…
More Anxiety Quotes
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- Now is the age of anxiety. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh. — Lord Acton
- I know a lot of shows are like, 'Here's the pages,' right before they start filming. I'd have a heart attack. The… — Alan Ball
- I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else - but I'm absolutely nothing special. — Clive Barker
- Gather experience... Look at what you should not look at. A feeling of anxiety is the sure and certain evidence that you… — Clive Barker
- First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of the body,… — Saint Basil
- Obama's economic policies obviously have not worked, and have left the American market place with enormous uncertainty and anxiety. — Bob Beauprez
- Anything you're trying to will is focused on the future; it's always associated with some sort of anxiety that makes the present… — Martha Beck
- Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. — Henry Ward Beecher
- The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear. — Josh Billings
- A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety. — Aesop