Quotes about Anxiety

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“Love is full of anxious fears.”
— Ovid
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“Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity”
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“This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.”
VerifiedThe Importance of Being Earnest (1895), Gwendolen, Act III · evidenceAnxiety
“The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.”
— Seneca
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“We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out another very often.”
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“There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.”
— Ovid
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“The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.”
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“Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.”
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“Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.”
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“Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.”
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“Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbors.”
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“Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is, with thoughts of what may be.”
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“There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.”
— Seneca
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“It has been said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only empties today of its strength.”
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“God never built a Christian strong enough to carry today's duties and tomorrow's anxieties piled on the top of them.”
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“If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. nothing in the paper today , we sigh.”
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“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.”
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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.”
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“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.”
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“Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. In a world where everything is doubtful, and where we may be disappointed, and be blessed in disappointment, why this restless stir and commotion of mind? Can it alter the cause, or unravel the mystery of human events?”
MisattributedListed as misattributed to Tryon Edwards; no source in their known works. · evidenceAnxiety