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Quotes About Anxiety

Fear is the main source of superstition and one of the main sources of cruelty.
~ Bertrand Russell
No power so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
~ Edmund Burke
Maybe he sells fear because he's got nothing else to sell.
~ Stephen King, The Stand
We have nothing to fear but fear itself
~ Michel de Montaigne
Frightened people live in their own special hell.
~ Unknown
If evil exists its to be found in our fears.
~ Paulo Coelho, Adultery
The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
~ Oscar Wilde
There is no devil but fear.
~ Elbert Hubbard
...I'm not afraid of the opinions of others - but of being needed and coming up short ...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
Fear is the most damnable damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
~ William Faulkner
To hell with pleasure that's haunted by fear!
~ Jean de La Fontaine
Joking about death-or anything else that oppresses us-makes it less frightening.
~ Allen Klein
Humor acts to relieve fear.
~ Unknown
He who fears something gives it power over him.
~ Moorish proverb
All fear is bondage.
~ Anonymous
The craven's fear is but selfishness like his merriment.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
Nerves provide me with energy.... It's when I don't have them when I feel at ease that I get worried.
~ Mike Nichols
If your desires be endless your cares and fears will be so too.
~ Thomas Fuller
I feel like the majority of the fear that I had or that we have we hold from other people. They're like people that we trust they're their fears. All of a sudden we think that they're our fears.
~ Alicia Keys
Fear is an uneasiness of the mind upon the thought of a future evil likely to befall us.
~ John Locke
There is nothing in the universe that I fear but that I shall not know all my duty or fail to do it.
~ Mary Lyon
I can stand what I know. It's what I don't know that frightens me.
~ Frances Newton
FEAR: False Evidence Appearing Real.
~ Anonymous
Fear is a slinking cat I find beneath the lilacs of my mind.
~ Sophie Tunnell