Anxiety Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“The incessant anxiety and strain of some is a well-nigh incurable form of disease. We are made to exaggerate the importance of what work…

— Henry David Thoreau

“A perpetual state of anxiety over what is ultimately out of our control comes to dominate our lives. Affliction causes anxiety—and anxiety crushes us…

— Kristen Wetherell

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.

— Benjamin Disraeli

“The word incurable, which is so frightening to so many people, really only means that the particular condition cannot be cured by “outer” methods…

— Louise L. Hay

We suffer from an incurable malady: Hope.

— Mahmoud Darwish

“But none of these treatments have fundamentally reduced the underlying anxiety that seems woven into my soul and hardwired into my body and that…

— Scott Stossel

“According to recent epidemiological data, the “lifetime incidence” of anxiety disorder is more than 25 percent—which, if true, means that one in four of…

— Scott Stossel

We should be more anxious that our afflictions should benefit us than that they should be speedily removed from us.

— Robert Hall

When anxiety disrupts functioning, it's psychiatric illness.

— Harriet Lerner

“A large part of the task is helping people negotiate the overwhelming anxiety—anxiety about death, anxiety about suffering, anxiety about loved ones, anxiety about…

— Atul Gawande

Anxiety has afflicted me all my life.

— Scott Stossel

Anxiety destroys us, but it drives the common man.

— Bad Religion