Anxious Quotes

566 Anxious quotes by 482 unique authors

The more precious His gift, the more anxious God for its return. — Seth Grahame-Smith
The fates have informed me that your examination in June will concern the Orb, and I am anxious to give you sufficient practice. Hermione snorted.… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield,But to my own strength. Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved,But for the… — Rabindranath Tagore
One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in his bed he had been changed into a monstrous bug… — Franz Kafka
Even though nobody knew that you were in my life, you were the person who brought a raft at every rapid current and helped me… — Shin Kyung-sook
In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on… — Henry David Thoreau
Her forehead was a maze of anxious little grooves, from a lifetime of wondering about whether everyone within range was OK. — Tana French
When I turned two I was really anxious, because I'd doubled my age in a year. I thought, if this keeps up, by the time… — Steven Wright
It's about me, or people wouldn't be so anxious to keep me from knowing about it. The absence of information is information. ~ Ender — Orson Scott Card
The feeling that was born that night, how could i describe it?Words like love or lust just don't seem right. I may call it jealousy,… — Ai Yazawa
Human beings, in point of fact, are lonely by nature, and one should feel sorry for them and love them and mourn with them. It… — HalldÃ³r Laxness
The thought that, insignificant as she was, she yet might do some good, made her very careful of her acts and words, and so anxious… — Louisa May Alcott
And when the event, the big change in your life, is simply an insight-- isn't that a strange thing? That absolutely nothing changes except that… — Jonathan Franzen
Don't be so anxious about it,' she laughed. 'I'm not used to being loved. I wouldn't know what to do; I never got the trick… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I was in my house, alone in the living room, anxious about you, watching the flashes of lightning. And a flash of lightning lit up… — Haruki Murakami
...hideous psychic fallout they'd all endured both in active marijuana-dependency and then in marijuana-detox: the social isolation, anxious lassitude, and the hyperself-consciousness that then reinforced… — David Foster Wallace
The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either. — Aristotle
I have a business appointment that I am anxious... to miss. — Oscar Wilde
All of a sudden I became aware of a little star in one of those patches and I began looking at it intently. That was… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Only in love can I find you, my God. In love the gates of my soul spring open, allowing me to breathe a new air… — Karl Rahner
Man surprised me most about humanity.Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health.And then he… — Dalai Lama
If you are renewed by grace, and were to meet your old self, I am sure you would be very anxious to get out of… — Charles Spurgeon
Royce cast a harsh and anxious look at the prince. “What?” Alric asked. “I thought we discussed the importance of keeping a low profile.” “Oh,… — Michael J. Sullivan
The question is why one should be so inwardly preoccupied at all. Why not reach out to others in love and solidarity or peer into… — Barbara Ehrenreich
Write to amuse? What an appalling suggestion! I write to make people anxious and miserable and to worsen their indigestion. — Wendy Cope

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