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Quotes About Anxiety

Fear is the emotion that makes us blind.
~ Stephen King
Anger is fear in disguise.
~ Rajneesh
Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Fear and hope are alike underneath.
~ Richard Ford
There's nothing wrong with me...except acute chronic fear.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
The understanding of fear cures fear.
~ Robert Anthony
There lay between them, separating them, that same terrible line of the unknown and of fear, like the line separating the living from the dead.
~ Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Nothing is terrible except fear itself.
~ Francis Bacon
Behind every flinch is a fear or an anxiety - sometimes rational, sometimes not. Without the fear, there is no flinch. But wiping out the fear isn't what's important - facing it is.
~ Julien Smith, The Flinch
The fear that permeated every fiber of my being was relentless, it was cruel, and it was my best hope for getting through this.
~ Unknown
Sometimes, when we want something so badly, we fear failure more than we fear being without that thing.
~ Matthew J. Kirby, Icefall
I am not scared of you, I am scare of these feelings.
~ Unknown
I can plunk out enough chords to write a song, but I'm completely afraid to play guitar in front of other people. It's a fear of failure, I guess.
~ Mandy Moore
To fear the worst oft cures the worst.
~ William Shakespeare
Fear can give you urgent wings.
~ Margaret Mahy
The first is based in fear, the second in fearlessness.
~ Rhonda Britten
May we understand that fear of failure is worse than failure itself
~ Paulo Coelho
My biggest fear is the ocean. It's a great big, powerful sea toilet.
~ Alex Borstein
Something indefinite is always worse than something definite, a strong fear that doesn't last very long is easier than one that's nebulous but doesn't go away.
~ Stefan Zweig
Every choice we make is either a growth choice or a fear choice.
~ Brian Morton
If you think or fear too much, you can't get far!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood.
~ Terry Gross
Farid had brought an invisible guest with him. Fear.
~ Cornelia Funke