Anxiety Quotes

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety. (Aesop)
The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety. View quote
Norman Mailer
Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas. View quote
Emil Cioran
If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself. View quote
Martin Heidegger
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. View quote
Søren Kierkegaard
The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
That's the duty of the old,” said the Librarian, "to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old. View quote
Philip Pullman
Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
Any kind of creative activity is likely to be stressful. The more anxiety, the more you feel that you are headed in the right direction. Easiness, relaxation, comfort - these are not conditions that usually accompany serious work. View quote
Joyce Carol Oates
Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic. (Anaïs Nin)
The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety. View quote
Sigmund Freud
A brain scan may reveal the neural signs of anxiety, but a Kokoschka painting, or a Schiele self-portrait, reveals what an anxiety state really feels like. Both perspectives are necessary if we are to fully grasp the nature of the mind, yet they are rarely brought together. View quote
Eric Kandel
What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease. View quote
Alexander Pope
Now is the age of anxiety. View quote
W. H. Auden
Comfortless was my religion, anxiety of the anxieties, for I believed God was not love, but courage. Love came only as a reward. View quote
Norman Mailer
There is an innate anxiety which supplants in us both knowledge and intuition. View quote
Emil Cioran
Helpless lust and unreasoning anxiety were just part of growing up. View quote
Octavia Butler
It has been said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only empties today of its strength. View quote
Charles Spurgeon
Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity. View quote
T. S. Eliot
A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is. (Pauline Kael)
The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt. View quote
Paul Tillich
The bravest man feels an anxiety 'circa praecordia' as he enters the battle; but he dreads disgrace yet more. View quote
Horatio Nelson
We live in the midst of alarms anxiety beclouds the future we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
Anything you're trying to will is focused on the future; it's always associated with some sort of anxiety that makes the present moment somewhat uncomfortable. View quote
Martha Beck