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Quotes About Anxiety

Best safety lies in fear.
~ William Shakespeare
Life is better life past fearing death, Than that which lives to fear.
~ William Shakespeare
Molto meglio allontanare i rischi che vivere nell'incubo del rischio.
~ William Shakespeare
I am sure care's an enemy to life.
~ William Shakespeare
What, Lucius, ho! I cannot, by the progress of the stars, Give guess how near to day. Lucius, I say! I would it were my fault to sleep so soundly. When, Lucius, when? awake, I say! what, Lucius!
~ William Shakespeare
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
~ William Shakespeare
What's yet in this That bears the name of life? Yet in this life Lie hid moe thousand deaths; yet death we fear, That makes these odds all even.
~ William Shakespeare
It was not really alarming at first, since the change was subtle, but I did notice that my surroundings took on a different tone at certain times: the shadows of nightfall seemed more somber, my mornings were less buoyant, walks in the woods became less zestful, and there was a moment during my working hours in the late afternoon when a kind of panic and anxiety overtook me, just for a few minutes, accompanied by a visceral queasiness.
~ William Styron
While I was able to rise and function almost normally during the earlier part of the day, I began to sense the onset of the symptoms at midafternoon or a little later- -gloom crowding in on me, a sense of dread and alienation and, above all, stifling anxiety.
~ William Styron
But the hospital also offers the mild, oddly gratifying trauma of sudden stabilization—a transfer out of the too familiar surroundings of home, where all is anxiety and discord, into an orderly and benign detention where one's only duty is to try to get well.
~ William Styron
For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of Is come unto me. I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came. —Job
~ William Styron
Advice his father had given him years before sounded in his mind: "In most of what you face, son, you'll make it through if you don't give in to panic." He
~ William W. Johnstone
They said it was only a ground shark; but I was not wholly reassured. It is as bad to be eaten by a ground shark as by any other.
~ Winston Churchill
When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened
~ Winston S. Churchill
I am very afraid of the devil. A strange confession from the lips of an unbeliever.
~ Witold Gombrowicz
Niemcy przyjechali z Opatowa — rzeczywiÅ›cie wida? byÅ'o ludzi przed stajniÄ… — i, ju? apoplektyczny, popÄ™dziÅ', za nim ?ona, za nimi Fryderyk, który myÅ›laÅ' mo?e, ?e bÄ™dzie mógÅ' siÄ™ przyda?, znajÄ…c dobrze niemiecki.
~ Witold Gombrowicz
Tant que l'homme sera mortel, il ne sera jamais décontracté.
~ Woody Allen
El cuento del lunático En la superficie, dispensado con todos los favores de la buena vida. En el fondo, desesperadamente ansioso de realizarme en el amor.
~ Woody Allen
I'm an alarmist, not a hypochondriac
~ Woody Allen
If it wasn't for his anxiety, he'd get no aerobics at all.
~ Woody Allen
I dined alone and went to sleep, keeping one eye open all night lest Milt Rosen roll over onto my side of the bed. I was prepared to let out a piercing shriek.
~ Woody Allen
No es que tenga miedo de morir, es que no quiero estar aquí cuando ocurra.
~ Woody Allen
Tantrum time, rage, anxiety, depression, genetics, Miltown.
~ Woody Allen
By now I had taken to sauteing my Xanax for culinary variety
~ Woody Allen