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Quotes About Anxiety

It seems that everyone has their own inexplicable fear to have nightmares about. We need nightmares to keep ourselves entertained, and fend off the contentment that we all fear and abhor so much.
~ Louis de Bernieres
What is fear of need but need itself?
~ Khalil Gibran
Fear is vision without hope.
~ Mark Driscoll
The most dangerous person is the fearful; he is the most to be feared.
~ Ludwig Borne
Servile doubt argues an impotence of mind, that says we fear because we dare not meet misfortunes.
~ Aaron Hill
On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
~ Joseph Addison
Fear naturally quickens the flight of guilt.
~ Samuel Johnson
The fear of approaching death, which in youth we imagine must cause inquietude to the aged, is very seldom the source of much uneasiness.
~ William Hazlitt
In doubt, fear is the worst of prophets.
~ Statius
I'm very much afraid of being mad - that's my one fear.
~ Sting
My worst habit is my fear & my destructive rationalizing.
~ Sylvia Plath
Uncommon extension of the fear of death.
~ Ambrose Bierce
I learned how but I have a terrible paranoia and fear. I do not drive an automobile.
~ Nikki Cox
Some of my fear and anxieties surrounding faith, I think, provides some good comedy for my act.
~ Jim Gaffigan
... we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.
~ Lucretius
Worry is a sustained form of fear caused by indecision
~ Brian Tracy
For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
~ Alan Paton
A mind that is afraid withers away; it cannot function properly.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
I suffer from vertigo. It's paralyzing in extreme situations. The most scared I've been as an adult was trying to conquer that fear by going climbing in Wales.
~ Hari Kunzru
If you don't have a job, you don't have a fear of losing it. You fear having to get one.
~ Chuck Klosterman
Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization.
~ Shirley Hazzard
The only real difference between Anxiety and Excitement was my willingness to let go of Fear.
~ Barbara Brown Taylor
Be wary then; best safety lies in fear.
~ William Shakespeare
Most fears are not even based on our current reality. They are the product of imagined fears conjured up in our minds - the product of our own fantasies.
~ Lauren Mackler