Sayings about Anxiety
Anxiety will not let you die of hunger. ~ African Proverb
If the fight is tomorrow, then why should you clench your fist today? ~ Cameroon Proverbs
Every little yielding to anxiety is a step away from the natural heart of man. ~ Japanese Proverbs
Anxiety about the future never profits; we feel no evil until it comes, and when we feel it, no counsel helps; wisdom is either too early or too late. ~ Saying
Quotations about Anxiety
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Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained. ~ Arthur Somers Roche
Generally we obtain very surely and very speedily what we are not too anxious to obtain. ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Some of your grief you have cured, and lived to survive; but what torments of pain have you endured that haven’t as yet arrived. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity. ~ Chuck Jones
Who’s not sat tense before his own heart’s curtain. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
We walk in circles, so limited by our own anxieties that we can no longer distinguish between true and false, between the gangster’s whim and the purest ideal. ~ Ingmar Bergman
Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today’s job with yesterday’s tools and yesterday’s concepts. ~ Marshall McLuhan
Can your solicitude alter the cause or unravel the intricacy of human events? ~ Hugh Blair
Over-confidence is as evil as undue anxiety. ~ Thomas Chandler Haliburton
There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it. ~ Ovid
Cares that have entered once in the breast will have whole possession of the rest. ~ Ben Johnson
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. ~ Benjamin Franklin
Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. ~ Hugh Blair
Our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only empties today of its strength. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Anxiety in children is originally nothing other than an expression of the fact they are feeling the loss of the person they love. ~ Sigmund Freud
Anxiety never yet successfully bridged over any chasm. ~ Giovanni Ruffini
The suspense is terrible, I hope it will last. ~ Oscar Wilde
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. ~ Soren Kierkegaard
Suspense is worse than disappointment. ~ Robert Burns
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that’s your nature, but don’t lend it to your neighbors. ~ Rudyard Kipling
Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity. ~ T. S. Eliot
The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came. ~ James Russell Lowell
Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength. ~ Charles Spurgeon
Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained. ~ Arthur Somers Roche
The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear. ~Josh Billings
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst. ~ Francis H. Bradley
Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head. ~ Mignon McLaughlin
Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.~ Plato
O foolish anxiety of wretched man, how inconclusive are the arguments which make thee beat thy wings below! ~ Dante
The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable. ~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca
We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out another very often. ~ Winston Churchill
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is, with thoughts of what may be. ~ John Dryden
Among those evils which befall us, there are many which have been more painful to us in the prospect than by their actual pressure. ~ Joseph Addison
Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety. ~ Frank Smith
There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality. ~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure and generally occasion ourselves. ~ Benjamin Disraeli
Nobody should ever look anxious except those who have no anxiety. ~ Benjamin Disraeli
The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety. ~ Norman Mailer
If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. nothing in the paper today , we sigh. ~ Paul Valery
God never built a Christian strong enough to carry today’s duties and tomorrow’s anxieties piled on the top of them. ~ Theodore L. Cuyler
Love is full of anxious fears. ~ Ovid