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Quotes About Anxiety

Late last night and the night before, tommyknockers, tommyknockers knocking on my door. I wanna go out, don't know if I can 'cuz I'm so afraid of the tommyknocker man.
~ Stephen King
Once a week, I am a very desperate man.
~ Garry Trudeau
I did Shakespeare in college and the nerves I got doing Shakespeare are the same nerves I get doing 'Mad Men.'
~ Kristoffer Polaha
When I'm up there, and I know the show's coming to a close, in my head I'm saying to myself, Oh man, you gotta get off and be a normal person again. That's what I don't like so much.
~ Adam Sandler
Not many people sleep with other men and when the other man leaves have a nervous breakdown.
~ Andrew Sullivan
Man generally is entangled in insoluble problems; history is consequently a tragedy in which we are all involved, whose keynote is anxiety and frustration, not progress and fulfilment.
~ Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
The state of man is inconstancy, ennui, anxiety.
~ Blaise Pascal
Condition de l'homme: inconstance, ennui, inquie tude. Man's condition. Inconstancy, boredom, anxiety.
~ Blaise Pascal
I think that every man is afraid of his wife.
~ Christopher Buckley
It is an overactive imagination that turns men into cowards, not a surfeit of fear, as many believe
~ Christopher Paolini
Man makes a death which Nature never made. And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.
~ Edward Young
Beware of the man who denounces psychiatrists; / he is afraid.
~ Erica Jong
Men always fear things which move by themselves.
~ Frank Herbert
Men are terrified of their sexuality. They're all afraid of impotence.
~ Frederick Lenz
Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Until a man has love, it is well he should have fear. So long as there are wild beasts about, it is better to be afraid than secure.
~ George MacDonald
In times of panic man seems to exchange his soul for a tail.
~ Gertrude Atherton
Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
~ Lucretius
I am an old man and have had many worries, but most have never come to pass.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Men, in whatever anxiety they may be, if they are men, sometimes indulge in relaxation.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
The boy that you loved is the man that you fear.
~ Marilyn Manson
I'm a very old man. I've had lots of problems. Most of them never happened..!
~ Mark Twain
Don't you know that the very thing a man dreads is the thing that always happens?
~ Mark Twain
We're going to die," Keith said, the moment he was gone. "This man is a serial killer. We're going to die, and he's going to bury us in his garden and build a shed on us.
~ Maureen Johnson