Anxiety Sayings & Quotes
These anxiety sayings, quotes and quotations are from our famous and inspiring Just-Quotes collection.Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. - Henry Ward Beecher
Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's jobs with yesterday's tools. - Marshall McLuhan
Yes, I now feel that it was then on that evening of sweet dreams- that the very first dawn of human love burst upon the icy night of my spirit. Since that period I have never seen nor heard your name without a shiver half of delight, half of anxiety. For years your name never passed my lips, while my soul drank in, with a delirious thirst, all that was uttered in my presence respecting you. - Edgar Allan Poe
The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety. - Sigmund Freud
Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the work-driven feel about not working when they are on vacation and supposed to be having fun. They have something to do that is like a friendly imitation of work: they can take pictures. - Susan Sontag
Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation. Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads on like a gray vegetation. - Jean Arp
A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety. - Aesop
I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lords side. - Abraham Lincoln
Comfortless was my religion, anxiety of the anxieties, for I believed God was not love, but courage. Love came only as a reward. - Norman Mailer
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. - Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing, They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety. - Louis Kronenberger
To be happy means to be free, not from pain or fear, but from care or anxiety. - Wystan Hugh Auden
The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety. - Norman Mailer
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master. - Demosthenes
Good humour is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment. - Grenville Kleiser
Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labour, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top. - Robert Burton
My conception of the audience is of a public each member of which is carrying about with him what he thinks is an anxiety, or a hope, or a preoccupation which is his alone and isolates him from mankind; and in this respect at least the function of a play is to reveal him to himself so that he may touch others by virtue of the revelation of his mutuality with them. If only for this reason I regard the theatre as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone. - Arthur Miller
When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining; but exert yourselves to hide it, and by endeavouring to hide it you drive it away. - Samuel Johnson
Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety, all this rust of life ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. It is better than emery. Every man ought to rub himself with it. - Henry Ward Beecher
Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any big change that you're going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you prepare for this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream. - Harvey Mackay
Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety. - Plato
A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is. [I Lost It at the Movies] - Pauline Kael
He had a sensation of anxiety and shame, a sensitivity acute beyond usefulness, as if the nervous system, flayed of its old hide of social usage, must record every touch of pain. - John Updike
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. - John Kenneth Galbraith