Quotes about Anxiety

You have to understand you cannot have faith and fear at the same time; you can only have one or the other.

Faith and fear make poor bedfellows. Where one is found, the other cannot exist.

My mother used to tell me, "Things always look worse at night." For the most part, I believe her. But some of the troubles that keep me from sleeping look just as bad in the morning.

I remember with my first album, I was so scared of messing it up, of blowing the opportunity, that I blew it.

Mindfulness is the opposite of this tendency. We must invite these things up into our mind consciousness every day and tell them, "My dear, I'm not afraid of you. I'm not afraid of my fear.

If we want to be happy and joyful, then we must be determined to let go of attachment. Free from attachment, we are no longer caught in the circle of samsara—not burdened by anxiety nor restlessly searching for what is unwholesome. The absence of attachment leads to true peace and joy.

Now anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity. It is the fruit of unanswered questions. But questions cannot go unanswered unless they first be asked. And there is a far worse anxiety, a far worse insecurity, which comes from being afraid to ask the right questions — because they might turn out to have no answer. One of the moral diseases we communicate to one another in society comes from huddling together in the pale light of an insufficient answer to a question we are afraid to ask.

Silence is not broken by speech, but by the anxiety to be heard.

When a hideous man becomes a father And a son is born to him In the middle of the night He trembles and lights a lamp And runs to look in anguish On that child's face To see whom he resembles.

No one ever told me grief felt so much like fear.

Worries, he'd learned, are like rabbits: they compound in the dark.

Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear.