Anxiety Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“There will always be causes for anxiety, whether due to prosperity or to wretchedness. Life will be driven on through a succession of preoccupations:…

— Seneca the Younger

Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall…

— Seneca the Younger

Perhaps all anxiety might derive from a fixation on moments - an inability to accept life as ongoing.

— Sarah Manguso

“Anxiety is the subtle and pervasive destroyer of our happiness. It depends on thoughts of past and future. It cannot exist in the present.”

— Jan Chozen Bays

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

“the root of our human frustration and daily anxiety is our tendency to live for the future, which is an abstraction,” and that “our…

— Amy Cuddy

This we can all bear witness to, living as we do plagued by unremitting anxiety . It becomes more and more imperative that the…

— Dalai Lama

“The truth is that anxiety is at once a function of biology and philosophy, body and mind, instinct and reason, personality and culture.”

— Scott Stossel

Our lives are lived in intense and anxious struggle, in a swirl of speed and aggression, in competing, grasping, possessing and achieving, forever burdening…

— Sogyal Rinpoche

“stress and anxiety that arise from the attempt to control what is fundamentally impermanent and unable to be controlled.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

When we find our core certainty within, then we no longer look for certainty outside. The unfathomable nature of the ever-changing world ceases to…

— Deepak Chopra

“Habitually, as we anxiously flee from the responsibility of our existence as a whole, we place our hope in the particular objects and situations…

— Stephen Batchelor