Quotes About Anxiety

That's the duty of the old, said the Librarian, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.

That's the duty of the old,' said the Librarian, 'to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.

She'd hardly been aware of feeling anxious, but that was because anxiety was everywhere, built into the very molecules of the world, or so it had seemed.

You used to be optimistic. You used to think that whatever we did would turn out well. Even after we came back from the north, you used to think that. Now you're cautious, you're anxious…you're pessimistic." She knew he was right, but it wasn't right that he should speak to her so accusingly, as if it was something to blame her for. "I used to be young," was all she could find to say.

They sat for a while longer and then parted. For it was late and they were old and anxious.

Gradually, as Lyra watched, she found her mood lifting. She'd hardly been aware of feeling anxious, but that was because anxiety was everywhere, built into the very molecules of the world, or so it had seemed. But now it was disappearing, like heavy gray clouds thinning and dispersing and finding their great banks of vapor drifting into wisps that wafted away into invisibility, leaving the sky clear and open.

It was something she knew she had to do, but she felt uneasy about it, and afraid, too.

Mientras volaba en silencio volvió la vista atrás, como si le persiguiera su miedo. Edmund Spenser

War with Canada was far less of an enigma to me than what Aunt Evelyn was going to use for a toilet during the night

Terrifying encounters with the end? I'm thirty-four! Worry about oblivion, he told himself, when you're seventy-five! The remote future will be time enough to anguish over the ultimate catastrophe!

Gogol, Kafka y compañía… va a tener serios problemas si sigue por ese camino.

Fear unmans us. Fear degrades us. Fostering less fear—that's your job and mine.

You would have thought, listening to my bowdlerized version of what was a tepid enough little life history, that rather than having received a warm and gracious letter from the famous writer inviting me to come and spend a pleasant evening in his house, I had made this journey to plead a matter of utmost personal urgency before the most stringent of inquisitors, and that if I made one wrong move, something of immeasurable value to me would be lost forever.

the depressed person was frightened for herself, for as it were "[her]self "—i.e. for her own so-called "character" or "spirit" or as it were "soul

The night has a capacity for terror that the day can never match.

Fear cannot be trusted...It exaggerates everything. It is both treacherous and dishonest.

A great man once told me there can be no courage without fear," Helikaon said. "He was right. Remember that when your belly trembles and your legs grow weak.

It was all supposed to be reassuring-but it wasn't. Not really.

The bottom line was that he didn't want to die. As far as he was concerned, death was the problem. The basic human problem. Everyone's problem. He wasn't any different from anyone else, but there was no consolation in that.

Psychologist and marketing guru Ernest Dichter, known as the "father of motivational research," explains that when human beings become fearful, most will regress to soothing, even infantile, behaviors and animalistic drives to distract themselves from, and channel, their anxiety.

The lower our self-esteem in general—and how much the uncomfortable truth affects our self-image in particular—the more fearful we become.

Fear drains us, while love empowers us.

Fear in the midst of the storm is instinctive and beneficial. Fear of a storm that could happen is not. It's an intrusive emotion that can lead us to a greatly diminished life.

now. The last free generation of kids had let their fears take away their kids' freedom. As