#Anxiety Quotes

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

“The fear's as bad as falling.”

“Some of your griefs you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you've endured From evils that never arrived.”

“How I hated schools, and what a life of anxiety I lived there. I counted the hours to the end of every term, when I should return home.”

“We seldom see anybody who is not uneasy or afraid to live.”

“O polished perturbation! golden care! That keep'st the ports of slumber open wide To many a watchful night.”

“I am sure care's an enemy to life.”

“The only thing that feeling bad accomplishes is to plummet you into anxiety, despair, depression, and stress. In such situations, ask yourself in that moment what THOUGHT you can have that will make you feel GOOD!”

“We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out another very often.”

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

“What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived”

“Worry is interest paid before it's due.”

“The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.”

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

“...What torments of pain have you endured that haven't as yet arrived? and may never!”

“The stock market has spoiled more appetites than bad cooking.”

“He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.”

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

“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.”

“How I hated this school, and what a life of anxiety I lived there for more than two years.”

“When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened”

“Most fears in life rarely come to fruition.”

“I know worrying works, because none of the stuff I worried about ever happened.”

“Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.”

“and even a tea party means apprehension, breakage”

“The truth is that there is no actual stress or anxiety in the world; it's your thoughts that create these false beliefs. You can't package stress, touch it, or see it. There are only people engaged in stressful thinking.”

“A man trying to escape never thinks himself sufficiently concealed.”

“Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and bright sunshine.”

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

“I'm always worried about everything. Like spiders.”

“My mind turned by anxiety, or other cause, from its scrutiny of blank paper, is like a lost child–wandering the house, sitting on the bottom step to cry.”

“Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs.”

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

“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.”

“Childhood was very nice. The only thing wrong was that I was so introverted, everything became a big deal... 'Oh, no, here comes the bus. Where am I gonna sit on the bus?'”

“I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.”

“I'm going to get an MRI to find out whether I have claustrophobia.”

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

“I just think I have too much anxiety to listen to music. Sometimes it feels like noise, and sometimes it's so affecting that I can't recover from it.”

“I don't like to shop. It creates so much anxiety.”

“Oh, Instagram stresses me out on a very deep level!”

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

“Whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate.”

“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 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.”

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

“Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. And that makes me quite nervous.”

“Learning to know anxiety is an adventure which every man has to affront if he would not go to perdition either by not having known anxiety or by sinking under it. He therefore who has leaned rightly to be in anxiety has learned the most important thing.”

“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”

“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.”