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Quotes About Anxiety

We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still.
~ Lewis Thomas
How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened!
~ Thomas Jefferson, 1825
Worry whomps and wails on weary souls.
~ Terri Guillemets
There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death.
~ Fran Lebowitz
We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives...
~ Lewis Thomas
My generation is not strong. My grandfather fought in World War II. I had a panic attack during the series finale of Breaking Bad.
~ Matt Donaher
The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease.
~ French proverb
Just tested positive for claustrophobia.
~ Internet meme, March 2020
I've been to the dentist several times, so I know the drill.
~ Author Unknown
Well, it has happened again. The Earth has circled four times around the sun, astronomers have designated this a leap year and anxious bachelors won't answer their telephones until midnight.
~ David O'Reilly, 1984
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
The power of creation. Not believing we have the power is not the same as not having the power. We are constantly creating. The question is what are we creating. The power is in understanding the power. When we are anxious, when we are depressed, when we focus on lack, we create more lack. If instead we show gratitude, if we are thankful for the blessings in life, if we focus our energy on abundance, then abundance is what we create.
~ H.W. Mann
It is essential that a child's life not be ruled by the adult's need for efficiency. Efficiency is the enemy of infancy. It is too costly in terms of the child's emotional economy. It drains the child's resources, prevents growth, stifles interests, and may lead to emotional meltdowns. Children need opportunities to experiment, struggle, and learn without being rushed or insulted. Anxiety
~ Haim G. Ginott
permissiveness is the acceptance of imaginary and symbolic behavior. Over-permissiveness is the allowing of undesirable acts. Permissiveness and acceptance of all feelings bring confidence and an increasing capacity to express feelings and thoughts. Over-permissiveness brings anxiety and increasing demands for privileges that cannot be granted. Permit
~ Haim G. Ginott
The very fact of being human panics us into the most grotesque play-acting imaginable; and we deal in absurdities to keep life from being a total waste, like one constant jacking-off party.
~ Hal Bennett
I like normal stuff people fear - like spiders and heights. I'm frightened by the unknown, by things that are hard to figure out and get a grip on.
~ Haley Joel Osment
My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.
~ Halle Berry
only those with something to hide ever answered question for question and tried to sound outraged to disguise their nervousness.
~ Hamilton Crane
I've had thousands of problems in my life. Most of which never actually happened.
~ Hamza Yusuf
A hadith states, "Anxiety is half of aging." Another hadith states, "Righteousness will lengthen your life.
~ Hamza Yusuf
?nsan, "Yapaca??m i?e ba?kalar? ne der?" diye kayg?land?kça, Allah'?n hidayetiyle aras?ndaki perde kal?nla??r.
~ Hamza Yusuf
At the deepest level people are madder than they want to believe. You will find that they fear being eaten, and are alarmed by their desire to devour others.
~ Hanif Kureishi
So badly did he not want to fuck it up, he could only fuck it up.
~ Hanif Kureishi
I don't know, those ice-cream balls could be a little tighter," he says, a serious look on his face like he actually means it. Noel's chuckling, which is a relief because it means it looks okay to him, but I'm ready to lose it. I can't believe I'm letting this coke-snorting new guy get the best of me. "Yeah," I say, "like marbles. We could name the dish after you.
~ Hannah Mccouch