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Quotes About Anxiety

Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere.
~ Glenn Turner
The nature and specifics of the negative depend on the part of the country and the year, but the common thread is: self-doubt.
~ Gloria Steinem
When you're dependent, it's very hard not to be worried about the approval of whoever and whatever you're dependent on. For
~ Gloria Steinem
Eines Tages klopfte die Angst an die Tür. Der Mut stand auf und öffnete. Aber da war keiner.
~ Goethe
Human beings are much of a muchness. Most spend th greater part of their time working in order to live, and what bit of freedom they are left with makes them so anxious they strive by all available means to be rid of it.
~ Goethe Johann Wolfgang von
Loo doors without a decent, large hook are as infuriating as a lock that doesn't offer you full protection.
~ Gordon Ramsay
Living with an addict is a 24/7 business. It's a bit like having a baby. You're joined at the hip, and every five minutes you're hit with that paranoia: where is he? What's he doing? What's he up to? If he was going somewhere, we made him call us as soon as he arrived; if a journey was supposed to take ten minutes, and he took twenty, we'd be going: why are you late?
~ Gordon Ramsay
Let knowledge live. Burn your fears instead.
~ Terri Guillemets
Worry is wasting today's time cluttering up tomorrow's opportunities with yesterday's troubles.
~ Author Unknown
When any fit of anxiety, or gloominess, or perversion of mind lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints, but exert your whole care to hide it; by endeavouring to hide it you will drive it away. Be always busy.
~ Samuel Johnson
Fear of death is fear of life— and fear of life is fear of all that is.
~ Terri Guillemets
A nightmare is only a dream that hits turbulence.
~ Terri Guillemets
Fear is one part prudence.
~ Proverb
Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.
~ German proverb
Fear has big eyes.
~ Proverb
A cat bitten once by a snake dreads even rope.
~ Arab proverb
Fear is advance panic of unexpected life.
~ Terri Guillemets
A coward's heart panteth in his breast...
~ Homer
He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.
~ French proverb
If you think it's tough being a firefighter, try being a firefighter's spouse.
~ Author Unknown
I never liked riding in helicopters because there's a fair probability that the bottom part will get going around as fast as the top part.
~ John Wittenborn, unverified
Even happiness worries sometimes.
~ Terri Guillemets
Human misery universally arises from some error that man admits as true. We confound our fears with the idea feared, and place the evil in the thing seen or believed. Here is a great error, for we never see what we are afraid of.
~ Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, 1861
Don't feed your heart anxiety — it's only hungry for love.
~ Terri Guillemets