Anxiety Quotes
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Money is a strange thing. It ranks with love as our greatest source of joy, and with death as our greatest source of anxiety.
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I had turned my anxiety into my profession.
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A warrior of the light never confuses tension with anxiety.
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Our imagination and reasoning powers facilitate anxiety; the anxious feeling is precipitated not by an absolute impending threat-such as the worry about an examination, a speech, travel-but rather by the symbolic and often unconscious representations.
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In the torments of the intellect, there is a certain bearing which is to be sought in vain among those of the heart. Skepticism is the elegance of anxiety.
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High school was difficult for me because I was in the thick of dealing with my depression and anxiety.
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Families have always been in flux and often in crisis; they have never lived up to nostalgic notions about "the way things used tobe." But that doesn't mean the malaise and anxiety people feel about modern families are delusions, that everything would be fine if we would only realize that the past was not all it's cracked up to be. . . . Even if things were not always right in families of the past, it seems clear that some things have newly gone wrong.
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I got a little lost in "Law & Order" and "Luther" and all those shows where it's basically women dying all the time, I had to stop watching that stuff because it fills me with anxiety. And I joined a gym.
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It’s not only corruption that distorts the utopian impulse when it begins to take some specific social shape. The prospect of more freedom stirs anxiety. We want it, but we fear it; it goes against our most deeply ingrained Judeo-Christian definitions of morality and order. At bottom, utopia equals death is a statement about the wages of sin.
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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.
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I expect people that come to the studio to work to come with the same energy I come with. If I see less than that, I get very strong about, if you want to do this, come with a sense of pride, come with eagerness and anxiety.
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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.
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What inspires me is anxiety and the quest to try to change things in my life. ...I got addicted to endings and beginnings and to the idea of always moving around. ...Obviously, whenever you're going through something that's the best time to create, if you're going through something amazing, or horrible, or nothing at all you should be creating. Unfortunately the songwriters of today generally torture themselves to make sure they're writing good songs and take it a little too seriously.
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Anxiety has afflicted me all my life.
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Anxiety in the heart of man causes depression, but a good word makes it glad...
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Stress makes us prone to tunnel vision, less likely to take in the information we need. Anxiety makes us more risk-averse than we would be regularly and more deferential.
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For many women - myself included - pregnancy brings on tremendous anxiety and confusion, along with the joy.
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For success, the author must make the reader care about the destiny of the principals, and sustain this anxiety, or suspense, for about 100,000 words.
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The wise are free from perplexities; the virtuous from anxiety; and the bold from fear.
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It is in great part the anxiety of being a woman that devastates the feminine body.
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You may have a cat in the room with you without anxiety about anything except eatables. The presence of a cat is positively soothing to a student.
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The participants expressed anxiety about the problems the Defense Ministry had been meeting in realizing its plans for future development.
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The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.
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Boredom is a larval anxiety; depression, a dreamy hatred.
