Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old anxiety quotes, anxiety sayings, and anxiety proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.Sren Kierkegaard
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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.Anas Nin
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To hear the phrase "our only hope" always makes one anxious, because it means that if the only hope doesn't work, there is nothing left.Lemony Snicket
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Worrying is carrying tomorrow's load with today's strength- carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.Corrie ten Boom
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If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.Amit Ray
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Anxiety's like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you very far.Jodi Picoult
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Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.Hans Selye
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Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.Arthur Somers Roche
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Don't let your mind bully your body into believing it must carry the burden of its worries.Astrid Alauda
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Don't try to steer the river.Deepak Chopra
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Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.T. S. Eliot
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People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.Eckhart Tolle
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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.Henry Ward Beecher
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I'm trying to stay as calm as possible and focus one day at a time, but when reality sets in, I feel everything: anxiety, excitement, nerves, pressure and joy.Shawn Johnson
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What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?Thomas a Kempis
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Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.Robert Albert Bloch
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Fear can, though it is not God, create something from nothing.Caspar De Aguilar
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We probably wouldn't worry about what people think about us if we knew how seldom they do.Olin Miller
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Fears are educated into us and can, if we wish, be educated out.Karl A. Menninger
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He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.Michel de Montaigne
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Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.Benjamin Franklin
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There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.Seneca
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Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbors.Rudyard Kipling
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The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.James Russell Lowell
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Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.Rainer Maria Rilke
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Don't waste your life in doubts and fears: spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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No longer forward nor behind I look in hope and fear; But grateful take the good I find, The best of now and here.John G. Whittier
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Never let life's hardships disturb you ... no one can avoid problems, not even saints or sages.Nichiren Daishonen
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It is not work that kills men, it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more on a man than he can bear. But worry is rust upon the blade. It is not movement that destroys the machinery, but friction.Henry Ward Beecher
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The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.Seneca
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Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.Robert Browning
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Anxiety destroys scale, and suffering makes us lose perspective.Saul Bellow
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We walk in circles, so limited by our own anxieties that we can no longer distinguish between true and false, between the gangster's whim and the purest ideal.Ingmar Bergman
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Work done with anxiety about results is far inferior to work done without such anxiety, in the calm of self-surrender.The Bhagavad Gita
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Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.Samuel Butler
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Christ told his disciples not to be anxious about tomorrow, but he never said not to consider tomorrow. Intelligent problem solving demands careful consideration of the future effects of present solutions.R.C. Sproul
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Whenever a man allows himself to have anxieties, fears, or complaints, he must consider his behaviour as either a denial of the wisdom of God or as a confession that he is out of his will.Williams Law
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Anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity.Thomas Merton
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You can never become a great man or woman until you have overcome anxiety, worry, and fear. It is impossible for an anxious person, a worried one, or a fearful one to perceive truth; all things are distorted and thrown out of their proper relations by sucWallace D. Wattles
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I'm just suggesting that when you're faced with fear and anxiety, don't medicate. Meditate instead.Russell Simmons
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A warrior of the light...never confuses tension with anxiety.Paulo Coelho
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Anxiety is caused by lack of control, organization, preparation, and action.David Kekich
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Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.Charles Spurgeon
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To each of man's ages the Lord gives its own anxieties.Paulo Coelho
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If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimistic.Hazel Henderson
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The experience of separateness arouses anxiety; it is, indeed, the source of all anxiety.Erich Fromm
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You don't have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you.Dan Millman
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Anxiety is the space between the "now" and the "then.Richard Abell
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Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.Rose F. Kennedy
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Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creationCharles Frankel
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It requires a great deal of inexperience to be beyond the reach of anxiety.Evan Esar
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Anxiety isn't all bad: at least it gives you something to think about while watching television.Evan Esar
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Anxiety is like sand in a oyster: a little produces a pearl, too much kills the creature.Evan Esar
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Most people are anxious to do a favor for those who don't need it.Evan Esar
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The sense of anxiety and guilt doesn't come from having too much to do; it's the automatic result of breaking agreements with yourself.Vincenzo Berghella
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Anxiety: the dizziness of freedom.Soren Kierkegaard
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No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.Olive Schreiner
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A paranoid individual's characteristic problems with appearance, speech, thought, behavior, mood, insight, judgement, and intelligence when taken together trace recognizable pattern called the mental status.Martin Kantor
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In some paranoid individuals the signs of change in appearance that occur are subtle.Martin Kantor
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In some paranoid individuals the changes in appearance resemble those found in individuals who are depressed.Martin Kantor
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Depressed paranoid individuals may use what they believe to be positive changes in their appearance to compensate for feeling defective.Martin Kantor
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Paranoid individuals like individuals who are depressed feel pessimistic due to the belief that they will never have any sort of life.Martin Kantor
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Being paranoid is accepting that you can see a very small window of a much larger reality.Jason Edward Shiffman
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At any moment, there is always something that will take you down, you just have to wait for it, and most importantly watch for it.Jason Edward Shiffman
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Paranoia is a hunch that is not yet proven.Jason Edward Shiffman
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Everything is connected, that makes the world as dangerous as it is beautiful.Jason Edward Shiffman
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Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true.Robert Orben
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My first psychiatrist said I was paranoid, but I want a second opinion because I think he's out to get me.Tom Wilson
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Anxiety is the wound of our times.Sheryl Paul
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Anxiety, when approached from the mindset of learning, directs you to something deep inside that needs to be seen, a call from soul to pay attention, an invitation from the wellsprings of being to turn inward and heal at the next layer of growth.Sheryl Paul
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Anxiety's emissaries arrive in many forms: worry, intrusive thoughts, obsessions, compulsions, insomnia, somatic symptoms. If we greet these emissaries with shame and try to sequester them into the far down, hidden recesses of psyche, they will gather in in numbers and strength until we are forced to listen.Sheryl Paul
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Seeing anxiety and intrusive thoughts thoughts as wise manifestations of the unconscious is a vastly different view--and a much more hopeful and life enhancing view --of anxiety than one our culture holds.Sheryl Paul
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Anxiety is a doorway into a self that longs for wholeness.Sheryl Paul
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Anxiety is a meteor shower of what-ifs.Max Lucado
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Fear results in fight or flight. Anxiety creates doom and gloom.Max Lucado
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Anxiety and fear are cousins but not twins. Fear sees a threat. Anxiety imagines one.Max Lucado
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The presence of anxiety is unavoidable, but the prison of anxiety is optional.Max Lucado
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Anxiety is not a sin; it is an emotion. Anxiety can, however, lead to sinful behavior.Max Lucado
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Anxiety is life's inescapable accompaniment, its constant undertow. Every step we take offers it an opportunity; to avoid anxiety we would have to lock ourselves away.Soren Kierkegaard
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Anxiety can be replaced only by the freedom whose harsh requirements are its cause. Soren Kierkegaard
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Being free requires us to release the brakes that anxiety represents in order to accept and appropriate our proper spiritual fulfillment or perhaps even to recognize, if that is what we in the end believe, that no such prospect is in store.Soren Kierkegaard
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We truly live in anxious times. We're reacting instead of acting, leading and calming down.Kathleen Smith
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When we feel threatened, we must respond to the threat. This is the simplest and best definition of anxiety: anxiety is your response to a real or imagined threat.Kathleen Smith
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Our anxiety serves serves a very important purpose, because the central goal of being a human is simple: to not die for as long as you can.Kathleen Smith
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Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important.Natalie Goldberg