Quotes About Anxiety

Shut your eyes to the medical columns of the newspapers, and you will save yourself many forebodings and symptoms.

As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see.

Worry is an old man with bended head, carrying a load of feathers which he thinks are lead.

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear.

Most men, however brave, have some anxiety or fear in them.

A man who has to be punctually at a certain place at five o'clock has the whole afternoon ruined for him already.

A man who causes fear cannot be free from fear.

Fear of disease killed more men than disease itself.

Men's minds tend to fear more keenly those things that are absent.

The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilized man is so nervously anxious that personal privacy should be respected.

Really, it was difficult to determine which I had most reason to fear—dogs, alligators or men!

Few men have led a more active life - bodily or mentally - from a constitutional anxiety for regularity, precision, and order, during fifty years' business career, from which I had retired.

The state of that man's mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.

An old man was asked what had robbed him of joy in his life. His reply was, "Things that never happened."

There is always a certain hour of the day and of the night when a man's courage is at its lowest ebb, and it was that hour only that he feared.

Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.

Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.

He is full of adrenaline, his nerves are shot, and his mind is cluttered up with free-floating anxiety-floating around on an ocean of generalized terror.

Meetings had never been her strong suit. She felt like she was playing an away game whenever she sat down in a conference room. Her awareness of this got in the way and turned into a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Sometimes I wonder who'll come after me, he says. Oh, we have plenty of excellent people in the next generation. But after that -- well, I don't know. I guess all old people feel like the world is coming to an end.

had in mind a Dr. Waterhouse," Eliza said. "He was cut for the stone recently." The Marquis got the same aghast, cringing, yet fascinated look that all men did whenever the topic of lithotomy arose

When I think of all the things I've worried about and been afraid of in my life—and now it's plain that I've been scared of the wrong things.

added. Apparently a mere two-cab caravan was not enough to trigger Ariane's anxieties, and so the one carrying