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Quotes About Anxiety

The sense of death is most in apprehension.
~ William Shakespeare
I was never nervous when I had the ball, but when I let go I was scared to death.
~ Lefty Gomez
Everyone is calm and collected but I am telling you something - I am not calm and I am not collected. It's a sick world out there.
~ Unknown
In the depth of the anxiety of having to die is the anxiety of being eternally forgotten.
~ Paul Tillich
Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
~ John Dryden
The scariest thing in the world is thinking someone you love is going to die.
~ Jodi Picoult, Lone Wolf
Those who are afraid of death will carry it on their shoulders.
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
......And she's courageous but scared to death But that's what courage means
~ Raine Maida
I am afraid of death, scared by it. I already don't know whether I exist or not. So dying really terrifies me.
~ Stephen Rea
More people have a fear of speaking than a fear of death. So at a funeral, most people would want to be the person in the coffin rather than the person delivering the eulogy!
~ Geoffrey Rush
Death has always had a prominent place in my mind. There are times when I think somebody might kill me.
~ Dennis Rodman
Suspense-is Hostiler than Death-Death- tho soever Broad, Is just Death, and cannot increase- Suspense-does not conclude-.
~ Emily Dickinson
More people worry themselves to death than bleed to death.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.
~ Lorna Luft
I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.
~ Walter Reisch
Death approaches, which is always impending like the stone over Tantalus: then comes superstition with which he who is imbued can never have peace of mind.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
I'm watching the Weather Channel more than I've ever watched it. I'm scared to death it's going to rain.
~ John Elway
My fears are agitated to an extreme degree and the dread of death involves me in a stupor of chilling indisposition.
~ John Clare
Timor mortis conturbat me. The fear of death disturbs me.
~ William Dunbar
When I can't sleep, I always wrap something around my neck and close my eyes and imagine myself being strangled to death. Then I can fall asleep--it feels like sinking deep underwater
~ Otsuichi
They couldn't bear the idea of death being a big black nothing.
~ John Green
My flesh winced, in cowardice, from such a death.
~ Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
I'm scared to death that I'll never be afraid
~ Adam Young
I don't think fear necessarily is a core human emotion, but I do think fear of death is something that is at the core of every person's existence.
~ Zachary Cole Smith