Quotes About Anxiety

The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.

Millions of people are afraid of the past, the future, old age, insanity and death. But fear is a thought in your mind. This means that you are afraid of your own thoughts.

I try not to worry about the future - so I take each day just one anxiety attack at a time.

Don't shortchange the future, because of fear in the present.

For a Christian, our fears about the future are rooted in those places where our will differs from God's will.

The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.

The source of anxiety lies in the future. If you can keep the future out of mind, you can forget your worries.

The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it

Perfectionism is a perpetual flight into an illusory future that cannot be attained.

We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.

As I think about the future the tears will come out again.

Some so fear the future that they suffocate the present. It's like committing suicide to avoid being murdered.

Conditioned Awareness is where we live our lives in guilt over the past and anxiety over the future and never get to experience the present.

Menacing lines of black tomorrows on the horizon.

We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.

Our obsession with security is a measure of the power we have granted the future to hold over us.

I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary.

The trouble with worrying so much about your security in the future is that you feel so insecure in the present.

I've got two young kids. I don't know what the future holds.

You always romanticize the past as soon as the future begins to frighten you.

The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.

Neurotics think of the past with resentment, and the future with dread; the present just doesn't exist.

When we carve out a niche for ourselves in our imagined future, and decide that we won't be happy until we achieve it, we can only feel threatened and anxious over anything that stands in our way.