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Quotes About Anxieties

A publicidade moderna procura promover não tanto a auto-indulgência, mas a autodúvida. Ela procura criar necessidades, não satisfazê-las, gerar novas ansiedades, em vez de atenuar antigas.
~ Christopher Lasch
For here now is the age of iron. Never by daytime will there be an end to hard work and pain, nor in the night to weariness, when the gods will send anxieties to trouble us.
~ Hesiod
The future continues to preoccupy me as a reliable source of hopes, fears and anxieties, but increasingly the present seems to have no outstanding qualities of its own, being merely a way-station through which events travel to the vast shadow lands of the past.
~ Will Self
As fame becomes more democratized, we might all have to start struggling with the powers, anxieties, and responsibilities of being a minor celeb.
~ Max Joseph
He had been living in the dark world of his anxieties, and no infliction of reality could seem more terrible than that
~ Peter Ackroyd
The human mind hungers for reality; except for the largely encapsulated id, which is the depository of the raw drives and of deeply repressed material, the other institutions of the mind, the ego and the superego, draw continuously and liberally on the culture in which they subsist, develop, succeed, and fail. While the mind presents the world with its needs, the world gives the mind its grammar, wishes their vocabulary, anxieties their object.
~ Peter Gay
I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.
~ Rainbow Rowell
All my problems and anxieties certainly come out of my work, and that's the way it should be. Other than that, relationships with people I find very, very simple.
~ Jamie Wyeth
We thought: 'Let's write songs about our relationships, the world, our anxieties - let's make the most of this.'
~ Taboo
Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of his fathers, free from all anxieties of gain.
~ Horace
It appeared that OP-20-G analysts were nourishing King's anxieties by sending him cherry-picked data that could be interpreted as pointing to such attacks. The men who had King's ear were unduly alarmist, and their impulsive theories might incite the fleet to chase its own tail.
~ Ian W. Toll
The more a community can hold one another's anxieties, the closer it becomes, which further grows its collective holding capacity, which draws people further in, and so on and so forth. New doors are opened, the extraordinary is made ordinary, and we discover our best selves.
~ Unknown
According to this book I have been sowing the seeds of complexes and cultivating inhibitions in Bryan and Betty ever since they were a few months old. Feel much worried about this, but decide that it is too late now to do anything, and that Bryan and Betty must just take their chance.
~ D.E. Stevenson
The notion of general devastation had for Maria a certain sedative effect (the rattlesnake in the playpen, that was different, that was particular, that was punitive), suggested an instant in which all anxieties would be abruptly gratified, and between the earthquake prophecy and the marijuana and the cheerful detachment of the woman whose house was in the Tajunga Wash, she felt a kind of resigned tranquility.
~ Joan Didion
Money may not make you happy but it is sure lets you choose your anxieties.
~ Unknown
Her stillness was such a contrast to all the jumbled communication inside me that I suddenly felt what a tiresome fellow I was, always filling the air with the rattle of words and anxieties.
~ Robin Hobb
The media no longer hesitate to whip up lurid anxieties in order to increase sales, in the process undermining social confidence and multiplying fears.
~ A.C. Grayling
I know that life is a doorway to eternity, and yet my heart so often gets lost in petty anxieties. It forgets the great way home that lies before it.
~ Sophie Scholl
and women merely because of the way that they treated us. They had anxieties we could never understand. He said that we of the hidden had our burdens, but those who lived in the open carried far heavier burdens than ours, which was true.
~ Dean Koontz
The time between midnight and dawn when most people die, when sleep is deepest, when nightmares are most palatable. It is the hour when the sleepless are pursued by their sharpest anxieties, when ghosts and demons hold sway. The hour of the wolf is also the hour when most children are born.
~ Ingmar Bergman
Some people," the Vizier went on, "think it's the world of anxieties and dreams – your world, in short – that governs this one. I myself think it's from this world that everything is governed. I think it's this world that chooses the dreams and anxieties and imaginings that ought to be brought to the surface, as a bucket draws water from a well. Do you see what I mean? It's this world that selects what it wants from the abyss.
~ Ismail Kadare
Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears.
~ Italo Calvino
The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and perturbations to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The affirmation of one's essential being in spite of desires and anxieties creates joy.
~ Paul Tillich