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Quotes About Anxiety

Whistling to keep myself from being afraid.
~ John Dryden
Everyone became brave from excess of terror.
~ Gustave Flaubert
That's what courage is. If she weren't scared, she wouldn't need courage in the first place." -Jo
~ Nicholas Sparks, Safe Haven
Instead of antiquated notions of physical daring, courage is much more about making small choices to take initiative even when we are experiencing anxiety and facing risk.
~ Robert Biswas-Diener
Courage is being the only only one who knows how terrified you are.
~ Unknown
It needs courage to be afraid.
~ Michel de Montaigne
The most mortifying infirmity in human nature ... is perhaps cowardice.
~ Charles Lamb
There is no such thing as bravery only degrees of fear.
~ John Wainwright
Fear is the single strongest motivating force in our lives. ... The more frightened you become the better your chances of achieving success.
~ Unknown
A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.
~ Les Brown
Um, dad?" I called "How's it going?" "Percy!" Annabeth whispered. "We're in a hurry!
~ Rick Riordan
Dad!" he shouted, loud enough to make my ears ring. "Dad! You need to get down here!" (Derek) Chloe held open the door and whispered to me, "I could say he's not always like this, but I'd be lying.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Is it a bad sign when you see the person you're dating and get the same feeling as if you just saw police lights in you're rear view mirror?
~ Dov Davidoff
Our fears don't stop death, they stop life.
~ Rickson Gracie
Broadly speaking, human beings may be divided into three classes: those who are billed to death, those who are worried to death, and those who are bored to death.
~ Winston Churchill
I'm more afraid of marriage than death.
~ Shakira
What happens if you get scared half to death twice?
~ Steven Wright
Officially there are no fates worse than death. Unofficially, there is a profusion of such fates. For some people, just living with the thought that they will die is a fate worse than death itself.
~ Thomas Ligotti
Failure? Scared to death of it.
~ Ryan Seacrest
For me, sleeping is a waste of time. I'm afraid to sleep. It's a form of death.
~ Edith Piaf
But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end?
~ Franz Kafka
Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude.
~ Irvin D. Yalom
I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them. I am terrified and I don't even know of what, because I have lost everything already.
~ Veronica Roth, Allegiant
I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid.
~ Ruth Rendell