Anxiety Quotes

Most popular anxiety quotes

Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some smaller countries are neutral. - Robert Orben quote.
Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some smaller countries are neutral.

funny

Anxiety is a meteor shower of what-ifs. - Max Lucado quote.
Anxiety is a meteor shower of what-ifs.
Anxiety and fear are cousins but not twins. Fear sees a threat. Anxiety imagines one. - Max Lucado quote.
Anxiety and fear are cousins but not twins. Fear sees a threat. Anxiety imagines one.

fear

The presence of anxiety is unavoidable, but the prison of anxiety is avoidable. - Max Lucado quote.
The presence of anxiety is unavoidable, but the prison of anxiety is avoidable.
In the treatment of anxiety, a proper understanding of sovereignty is huge. Anxiety is often the consequence of perceived chaos. If we sense we are victims of unseen, turbulent, random forces, we are troubled. - Max Lucado quote.
In the treatment of anxiety, a proper understanding of sovereignty is huge. Anxiety is often the consequence of perceived chaos. If we sense we are victims of unseen, turbulent, random forces, we are troubled.

self-determination

The formula is simple: Perceived control creates calm. Lack of control gives birth to fear. - Max Lucado quote.
The formula is simple: Perceived control creates calm. Lack of control gives birth to fear.

self-determination

Anxiety is fear of one's self. - Wilhelm Stekel quote.
Anxiety is fear of one's self.
Anxiety is the interest paid on trouble before it is due. - William Ralph Inge quote.
Anxiety is the interest paid on trouble before it is due.
What, me worry?
Anxiety is the space between the 'now' and the 'then.'.
I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time. - Charles Shultz quote.
I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.
Anxiety seems to be the dominant fact—and is threatening to become the dominant cliché—of modern life.
— Time Magazine

modern life

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety. - Aesop quote.
A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition. - Alain de Botton quote.
Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition.
I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance. - Seth Godin quote.
I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.

failure

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. - Søren Kierkegaard quote.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

freedom

Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head.
Anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity. - Thomas Merton quote.
Anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity.

insecurity

Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It creates the failures. - Anaïs Nin quote.
Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It creates the failures.
Anaïs Nin The Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1944–47

love

It has been well said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength. - Charles Spurgeon quote.
It has been well said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
I have always described anxiety as the fear of oneself. - Wilhelm Stekel quote.
I have always described anxiety as the fear of oneself.
Wilhelm Stekel Conditions of Nervous Anxiety and Their Treatment
Anxiety is the unwillingness to play even when you know the odds are for you. - Thomas Szasz quote.
Anxiety is the unwillingness to play even when you know the odds are for you.