Quotes About Anxiety

When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess

A man of forty today has nothing to worry him but falling hair, inability to button the top button, failing vision, shortness of breath, a tendency of the collar to shut off all breathing, trembling of the kidneys to whatever tune the orchestra is playing, and a general sense of giddiness when the matter of rent is brought up. Forty is Life's Golden Age.

The parents age must be remembered, both for joy and anxiety.

The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.

The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search not merely of its road but even of its direction.

When I turned two I was really anxious, because I'd doubled my age in a year. I thought, if this keeps up, by the time I'm six I'll be ninety.

A recent survey stated that the average person's greatest fear is having to give a speech in public. Somehow this ranked even higher than death which was third on the list. So, you're telling me that at a funeral, most people would rather be the guy in the coffin than have to stand up and give a eulogy.

The first sign of a nervous breakdown is when you start thinking your work is terribly important.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

The trouble with unemployment is that the minute you wake up in the morning you're on the job.

I went to a meeting for premature ejaculators. I left early.

Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

Half the people in Hollywood are dying to be discovered and the other half are afraid they will be.

A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths.

In movies when ever people go under the sea I hold my breath, I almost died in Finding Nemo.

In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.

After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn't bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it's a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield; it's sleepless nights, asking ourselves all the time if we're doing the right thing. Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony.

When you awaken love and laughter in your life, your mind lets go of fear and anxiety, and your happy spirit becomes the healing balm that transforms every aspect of your human experience.

We sit around waiting for them to come home, hoping every day that they are okay and that they know how much we love them... our heroes.

A difficult moment in life is to hold on to something for an unknown period of time, just like our hope, love and worry.

Worry is a misuse of imagination. ~Dan Zadra

And all the times she'd been called a control freak, they were right, but they didn't understand why: because what she couldn't control was terrifying. Because what we couldn't control was death and that was too much for her brain, that was what sometimes made her so frightened that she could not make a mental connection with anything else, made her stop in the street and want to buckle over.