Alive Quote by Indira Gandhi

In sharp contrast to the idea that this stage of life is enviable, we hear high levels of anxiety about getting old, anxieties about…

— Rowan Williams

LONGEVITY, n. Uncommon extension of the fear of death.

— Ambrose Bierce

“Anxiety kills relatively few people, but many more would welcome death as an alternative to the paralysis and suffering resulting from anxiety in its…

— David Barlow

“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

That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the…

— Philip Pullman

The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.

— Susan Sontag

Old Age, a second child, by nature curst With more and greater evils than the first, Weak, sickly, full of pains: in ev'ry breath…

— Charles Churchill

I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.

— Seth Godin

The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.

— Sigmund Freud

One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.

— Rollo May

“Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion known to man, something deeply inscribed in our nervous system and subconscious. Over time, however, something strange…

— Robert Greene

With spectacular events taking up so much of the available anxiety quotient, we need to be constantly reminded of the more workaday threats to…

— Will Self