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Quotes About Anxiety

There are two kinds of fears: rational and irrational- or in simpler terms, fears that make sense and fears that don't.
~ Lemony Snicket
Fear owns me because I let it. Because I obsess over it, name it, raise it, and nurture it to become perfect. It is one of the few things in my life that I can control.
~ Pete Wentz, Gray
Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.
~ Franz Grillparzer
You get these fear memories that are hard to undo.
~ Temple Grandin
My greatest fear: repetition.
~ Max Frisch
At the heart of any terror is the fear of losing what we find meaningful.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
I've been worryin' that we all, live our lives, in the confines of fear
~ Ben Howard
To be happy means to be free, not from pain or fear, but from care or anxiety.
~ W. H. Auden
We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure.
~ John W. Gardner
I fear other actors who are not prepared. And I fear directors who are afraid.
~ Tommy Lee Jones
You become the monster you fear the worst, so the monster won't overtake you.
~ Suzanne Weyn
Satisfying curiosity ranks No. 2 in my book behind conquering a fear.
~ Scott Carpenter
If you're not prepared, it's not pressure you feel, it's fear.
~ Bruce Bochy
To acknowledge the presence of fear is to give birth to failure.
~ Katherine Mansfield
Fear is the ultimate cause of failure and disappointment.
~ Emmet Fox
Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.
~ William Shakespeare
It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.
~ J. K. Rowling
I suffer from two phobias: 1) Phobia-Phobia, the fear that you're unable to get scared, and 2) Xylophataquieopiaphobia, the fear of not pronouncing words correctly.
~ Brad Stine
We often suffer more from our fears, than from the dangers of our situation.
~ Norm MacDonald
Dear dad, you always told me that an honest man has nothing to fear, so I'm trying my best not to be afraid.
~ Frank Abagnale
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
~ T. S. Eliot
What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?
~ Toni Morrison
Fear usually looks like anger.
~ Krista Tippett
I'm afraid of everything. Fear of being alone, fear of being hurt, fear of being made a fool of, fear of failure... Still, I think all my fears bleed from one big one.
~ Tiffanie DeBartolo