Anxiety Quotes

I am an old man and have had many worries, but most have never come to pass.

I don't want to be in a battle. But waiting on the edge of one I can't escape is even worse.

The true husbandman will cease from anxiety, as the squirrels manifest no concern whether the woods will bear chestnuts this year or not, and finish his labor with every day, relinquishing all claim to the produce of his fields, and sacrificing in his mind not only his first but last fruits also.

When I turned two I was really anxious, because I'd doubled my age in a year. I thought, if this keeps up, by the time I'm six I'll be ninety.

The anxiety of falling in love could not find repose except in bed.

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

Some of the worst things in my life never even happened.

Marianne Williamson has written that there are really only two primary emotions in the universe, love and fear. So anytime you're feeling anxious, insecure, worried, angry or resentful, you've left love and entered fear.

Covetousness is ever attended with solicitude and anxiety.

Subjection to fear is weakness, bondage, feverish unrest. To be afraid is to have no soul that we can call our own; it is to be at the beck and call of alien powers, to be chained and driven and tormented; it is to lose the life itself in the anxious care to keep it.

WORRYING does not take away tomorrow's TROUBLES, it takes away today's PEACE.

Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fighting That would not let me sleep.

Are you stressed? Are you so busy getting to the future that the present is reduced to a means of getting there? Stress is caused by being "here" but wanting to be "there" or being in the present but wanting to be in the future. It's a split that tears you apart inside. To create and live with such an inner split is insane. The fact that everybody else is doing it doesn't make it any less insane.

One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.

No grand inquisitor has in readiness such terrible tortures as has anxiety and no spy knows how to attack more artfully the man he suspects, choosing the instant when he is weakest; nor knows how to lay traps where he will be caught and ensnared as anxiety knows how, and no sharp-witted judge knows how to interrogate, to examine the accused, as anxiety does, which never lets him escape.

Is not dread of thirst when your well is full, the thirst that is unquenchable?

I liked school, but I used to dread those moments when the teacher would call me up to give an oral report. I forced myself to deal with it and not dwell on the class in front of me - to keep a straight face, give the report and concentrate on getting it right. That's normally how I perform. That's how I am.

I had been anxious and depressed for years and suddenly I was deeply at peace.

Man surprised me most about humanity.Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health.And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.

Dread of night. Dread of not-night.

You accept whatever happens in the present moment, the only place where it can happen. Internally, you fully accept what is happening, and what is happening may include an emotion, a stream of anxiety that suddenly comes up within you.

...the reason for [this age's] anxiety and unrest is because in one direction, 'truth' increases in scope and quantity - via science and technology - while in the other, certainty and confidence steadily decline. Our age is a master in developing truths while being wholly indifferent to certitude. It lacks confidence in the good.

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

A man trying to escape never thinks himself sufficiently concealed.

Weak thoughts and feelings often feel strong but remember, real strength is never anxious, cruel, or punishing.

Human beings do not know their place and purpose. They have fallen from their true place, and lost their true purpose. They search everywhere for their place and purpose, with great anxiety. But they cannot find them because they are surrounded by darkness.

Conscious attention is a designed function of the brainwhich scans the environment for any trouble making changes.If you identify yourself with your trouble shooter, then naturally you define yourself as being in a perpetual state of anxiety.

You are so anxious about the future that you do not enjoy the present. You therefore do not live in the present or the future. You live as if you are never going to die, and then die having never really lived.

The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony. Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace.

He who worries about calamities suffers them twice over.

The bad times I can handle. It's the good times that drive me crazy. When is the other shoe going going to drop?

To venture causes anxiety. Not to venture is to lose oneself.

Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe.

Care keeps his watch in every old man’s eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie.

The animal lacks both anxiety and hope because its consciousness is restricted to what is clearly evident and thus to the present moment: the animal is the present incarnate.

My golf is so delicate, so tenuously wired together with silent inward prayers, exhortations and unstable visualizations, that the sheer pressure of an additional pair of eyes crumbles the whole rickety structure into rubble.

Worry is interest paid before it's due.

Stupidity is without anxiety.

I sometimes close my eyes during a show because I have drawn a picture of an audience enjoying the show more on the back of my eyelids.

I second-guess and overthink and rethink every single thing that I do.

Most fears in life rarely come to fruition.

The incessant anxiety and strain of some is a well-nigh incurable form of disease. We are made to exaggerate the importance of what we do; and yet how much is not done by us!

The voice in your head also creates a huge amount of problems that aren't really problems. They're just things that haven't happened yet, things that could happen tomorrow or next week. Listening to unreal problems has another name: worrying. That's what the voice in your head does. It what-ifs. It frets. It agonizes, and you can no longer sense the joy of life.

In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.

Anxiety beclouds the future.

My heart goes out to anyone who is making his first appearance before an audience of human beings.

Most of my life has been one tragedy after another, most of which hasn't happened.

Braveness is resistance to concern, mastery of panic - not absense of anxiety.

Anxiety is the gap between the NOW and the THEN. So if you are in the NOW, you can't be anxious, because your excitement flows immediately into ongoing spontaneous activity.

Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.

Being anxious, or in a painful rush of any kind, kills the possibility of meeting anyone with compassion

There is nothing like suspense and anxiety for barricading a human's mind against the Enemy. He wants men to be concerned with what they do; our business is to keep them thinking about what will happen to them.

My anxiety stems from my lack of control no matter what.

The stock market has spoiled more appetites than bad cooking.

I've dealt with many crises in my life, but few will ever happen.