Anxiety Quote by Joseph Addison

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

— Thomas Jefferson

And since, in our passage through this world, painful circumstances occur more frequently than pleasing ones, and since our sense of evil is, I…

— Ann Radcliffe

Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.

— Charles Kingsley

“The lens of Pessimism ethics; pierces the illusions of optimism, reminds us that pain and evil are not mere outliers but prevailing forces in…

— Carson Anekeya

The forces that tend for evil are great and terrible, but the forces of truth and love and courage and honesty and generosity and…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Often the fear on one evil leads us into a worse.

— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

In my view, the most damaging evils that are perpetrated upon us are through some abstract notion about good, where we're willing to sacrifice…

— Gregory Stock

Evils come not, then our fears are vain; And if they do fear but augments the pain.

— Benjamin Franklin

If we deny our anger, our pain, our ambition, or our goodness, we will suffer.

— M. Scott Peck

But pain is perfect misery, the worst Of evils, and excessive, overturns All patience.

— John Milton

The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.

— John Locke

There exist some evils so terrible and some misfortunes so horrible that we dare not think of them, whilst their very aspect makes us…

— Jean de la Bruyere