Fear Quote by Walter Benjamin

Character begins to form at the first pinch of anxiety about ourselves.

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

“As someone who struggles with anxiety and cowardice, as we all do, I’m profoundly inspired by. . . . full-on commitment to wonder, to…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“I was overwhelmed by an undefinable sensation, too serene to be called anxiety, but unpleasant enough not to go unnoticed.”

— Guadalupe Nettel

“We stare vacantly into our own future, frightened of all that time confiscates from us. We lament the theft of our beauty, youth, and…

— Shakieb Orgunwall

“Beneath the quiet equanimity, the simmering obsessions.”

— Neil Smith

“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

“The fear, as I analyze it in retrospect, was of being overwhelmed, of disintegrating under a pressure of reality greater than a mind, accustomed…

— Aldous Huxley

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

— Dalai Lama XIV

“i’ve arrived at a sort of emancipation moment. one that allows me to cultivate joy and pleasure in ways that feel liberatory. one that…

— Malebo Sephodi

“Obsessing over what isn’t invites anxiety, fear and more lack. Appreciating what is attracts miracles.”

— Anthon St. Maarten

“Anxiety is the evil conjoined twin of rigidity.”

— Elizabeth Sims

“When you commune with your ever-present inner calm, you are released from the madness and pain of all outer turmoil.”

— Bryant McGill