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Quotes About Anxiety

The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them
~ Bruno Bettelheim
Insects are my secret fear. That's what terrifies me more than anything - insects.
~ Michael O'Donoghue
An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
~ John Dryden
You cease to be afraid when you cease to hope; for hope is accompanied by fear.
~ Seneca the Younger
When we fear things I think that we wish for them ... every fear hides a wish
~ David Mamet
I can't remember that I ever had just a minute of stage fright.
~ Henry Rollins
It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.
~ Maxwell Maltz
The combination of fear and ignorance (two sides of the same coin) can be paralyzing.
~ Seth Godin
I suffer as always from the fear of putting down the first line. It is amazing the terrors, the magics, the prayers, the straightening shyness that assails one.
~ John Steinbeck
Sometimes it is right to fear the dark.
~ Peter Straub
I think you have an enormous amount of fear and uncertainty in this country. And it's not just from San Bernardino or from Paris.
~ Bernie Sanders
Change creates fear, and technology creates change. Sadly, most people don't behave very well when they are afraid.
~ Daniel H. Wilson
Excessive fear is always powerless.
~ Aeschylus
It has always seemed that a fear of judgment is the mark of guilt and the burden of insecurity.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
~ Erica Jong, Fear of Flying
Fear and doubt are major stampeders.
~ Karen Marie Moning, Iced
This is the century of fear.
~ Albert Camus
Death is not the enemy; living in constant fear of it is.
~ Norman Cousins
Fear is cruel and mean.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing routs us but the villainy of our fears.
~ William Shakespeare
Lucy: Do you think you have Pantophobia, Charlie Brown? Charlie: I don't know, what is pantophobia? Lucy: The fear of Everything. Charlie: THAT'S IT!!!
~ Charles M. Schulz
Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.
~ Walter Raleigh
Worry is fear in disguise. And fear will eat you from the inside out if you let it.
~ Jim Butcher
O how the darkness do crowd up, one against the other, in ye hearts! What fear ye more that what ye have wroughten?
~ Robert Anton Wilson