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Quotes About Anxiety

It was the first honest emotional connection I'd had in a while. So I immediately panicked and had to leave.
~ Candace Bushnell
All that day she felt as if she were acting in a theatre with better actors than herself, and that her bad performance was spoiling the whole affair.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Worrying about worrying is a dangerous cycle to fall into. People who get caught up in worry when they try to force themselves to stop worrying may want to try a different strategy – acceptance.
~ Amanda L. Chan
The suspense is terrible. I hope it'll last.
~ Gene Wilder
We hope vaguely but dread precisely.
~ Paul Valery
No one is moved to act, or resolves to speak a single word, who does not hope by means of this action or word to release anxiety from his spirit.
~ Ibn Hazm
Hope is the letter that never arrives delivered by the postman of my fear.
~ Edward Kowalczyk
Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.
~ Ovid
We may look great on Instagram, but we're still lonely and depressed and anxiety-ridden. I hope, for the sake of our future generations, that our moral compass stays intact.
~ Nelly Furtado
Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.
~ Bernard Berenson
You were my hope during my days of loneliness, my anxiety during moments of doubt, my certainty during moments of faith.
~ Paulo Coelho
Hope gives us something to do when we are afraid of what might happen.
~ Karan Casey
Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Farewell Hope, and with Hope farewell Fear
~ John Milton
What you hope for, you also fear.
~ Alice Walker
...be more guided by hope than fear.
~ Francesco Guicciardini
There's no hope of me becoming completely relaxed on stage. If I did, I'd sit down and doze off.
~ Robert Smith
If I died, would it get me out of my geometry test tomorrow? One could only hope.
~ P. C. Cast
Something I keep coming back to in my music is the tension between two extremes: healing and chaos, hope and anxiety - these big themes are inside us, flickering, all day.
~ Arca
My stage fright gets worse at every performance. During the overture I hope for a theater fire, typhoon, revolution in the Pentagon.
~ Hildegard Knef
True joy is only hope put out of fear.
~ Sir Fulke Greville
How happy he who can still hope to lift himself from this sea of error! What we know not, that we are anxious to possess, and cannot use what we know.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Let's hope his nerves will run through his veins.
~ John McEnroe
Hope itself is a pain, while it is overmatched by fear.
~ Philip Sidney