Quotes About Anxiety

Fear is one thing. To let fear grab you and swing you around by the tail is another.

When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise and the night be gone? And I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.

Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom, sharpen the sensitivity and assure the presence of tension that is necessary to preserve human existence.

Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being.

Anxiety is fear of one's self.

Fear ringed by doubt is my eternal moon.

Anxiety is the interest paid on trouble before it is due.

Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.

There is a difference between a psychopath and a neurotic. A psychopath thinks two and two are five. A neurotic knows that two and two are four, but he worries about it.

Worrying helps you some. It seems as if you are doing something when you're worrying.

Conscience does make cowards of us all.

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.

There are at least two kinds of cowards. One kind always lives with himself, afraid to face the world. The other kind lives with the world, afraid to face himself.

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death. -General Omar N. Bradley This morning I threw up at a board meeting. I was sure the cat was out of the bag, but no one seemed to think anything about it; apparently it's quite common for people to throw up at board meetings.

Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics.

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.

I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to lower my chin practically to my chest and look up at Bogie. That was the beginning of "The Look."

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.

Great self-destruction follows upon unfounded fear.

There's nothing I'm afraid of like scared people.

God! Is there anything uglier than a frightened man!