Quotes about Anxiety

came trotting along in a great hurry, muttering to himself as he came, 'Oh! the Duchess, the Duchess!

Anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity.

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.

I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.

"Worry" is a word that I don't allow myself to use.

He is in a constant state of stage fright, he says, because he never knows what part of his life he is going to have to act in next

I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of voices inside whisper that I am a fraud, and that the jig is up. Surely someone will rise up from the audience and say out loud that not only am I not funny and helpful, but I'm annoying, and a phony.

I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled - all the things that the culture tells you from preschool on will quiet the throbbing anxiety inside you - stature, the respect of colleagues, maybe even a kind of low-grade fame.

The mere thought of divorce terrified me. To me, divorce symbolized failure.

If you cannot help worrying, remember that worrying cannot help you

A problem not worth praying about is not worth worrying about.

The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to.