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Quotes About Anxiety

When God blesses our hearts with boredom, discontent, anxiety, emptiness, or restlessness, he loves us well. For his goal is to wean our wayward hearts away from things that hold no ultimate satisfaction.
~ Scotty Smith
Jesus, I've never been less anxious and more ready for your return, but only because of a growing understanding of the gospel. I'm already wearing the right clothes—the wedding garment of your perfect righteousness. I'm no longer afraid of your return. I very much want you to come back—my loving bridegroom. The oil in my lamp will never run dry, for you've sealed me as your own and have sent the Spirit to dwell in my heart forever.
~ Scotty Smith
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. (Phil. 4:6–7)
~ Scotty Smith
Well has it been said: the man obsessed Is a cock of the walk in a hurry towards the worst.
~ Seamus Heaney
Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear.
~ Seamus Heaney
I used to spend all of my time projecting. I was never in the moment. It was always tomorrow or next week or two months from now. That was one of the reasons I always had this sense of anxiety.
~ Truman Capote
The time for hope is gone, and come for fear.
~ Vittorio Alfieri
...that horrible moment of suspense when the artist shows one of his creations to strange eyes for the first time.
~ Irving Stone
Every time I open a new restaurant, I wake up in the middle of the night moaning about bread and water. I dream I am in the middle of the dining room, and I am panicked.
~ Joe Bastianich
When you absolutely don't know what to do anymore, it is time to panic
~ John van der Wiel
For a time I would feel I belonged still to a world of straightforward facts; but the feeling would not last long. Something would turn up to scare it away.
~ Joseph Conrad
The first time I went out under the spotlight, I was proper freaked out.
~ Katy B
We must expect everything and fear everything from time and from men.
~ Luc de Clapiers
I don't like to be afraid. I'm afraid every day, all the time.
~ Melissa Auf der Maur
I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.
~ Bill Nighy
Preachers prepare with this fear: 'Am I going to be able to fill the time?' The audience never worries about that.
~ Andy Stanley
I always felt like my future was at stake every time I stepped on stage and that was kind of hair-raising. At some point I just went, don't be frightened, you can't do anything wrong, it's your show.
~ Rickie Lee Jones
I worry all the time that I'm going to run out of ideas, you know? I always tell my mom my fashion ideas, because I know she'll remember them.
~ Alexa Chung
I think Will Smith's character says it best in his opening speech when he says, "We long for love, we wish we had more time and we're afraid of death."
~ Allan Loeb
I can't watch iceskating because the whole time I think they're going to fall! I get so uncomfortable.
~ Angela Kinsey
I was quite shy. I used to write stories all the time, and I think that was a worry for my parents.
~ Anne-Marie Duff
I feel like I'm always being challenged by my voice acting roles, for multiple different reasons. I still get nervous every time I book a gig.
~ Ashly Burch
Every time you take a train, step into your car, walk into the shopping mall, go to the airport - every single time, something could happen. That's how terrorism works.
~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali
The weird thing is that I hate to fly, and the quote that I give people is that every time I get off a plane, I view it as a failed suicide attempt.
~ Barry Sonnenfeld