Quotes about Anxiety

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.

There was a midsummer restlessness abroad--early August with imprudent loves and impulsive crimes. With little more to expect from summer, one tried anxiously to live in the present--or, if there was no present, to invent one.

Dangers bring fears, and fears more dangers bring.

I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.

I have learned that I am terrified of everything, but I can get the job done.

Stand-up comedy seems like a terrifying thing. Objectively. Before anyone has done it, it seems like one of the most frightening things you could conceive, and there's just no shortcut - you just have to do it.

Mrs. Lot was a sandwich-generation woman, not sure what life might hold for her-scared of going forward, frightened of going back.

Whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate.

The ethical expression for what Abraham did is that he meant to murder Isaac; the religious expression is that he meant to sacrifice Isaac—but precisely in this contradiction is the anxiety that can make a person sleepless, and yet without this anxiety Abraham is not who he is.