Anxiety Humor Quotes

#1. Sprinkling drops of lavender and clary-sage oil into a bath is a totally simple yet complex pleasure.

Isabel Gillies

#2. Never miss a party ... good for the nerves
like celery.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#3. If we would venture more upon the naked promise of God, we should enter a world of wonders to which as yet we are strangers.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#4. Anxiety and hostility seem to be a great part of good and bad humor. Examining humor too closely does seem to destroy it.

Matt Groening

#5. All the commercials on TV today are for antidepressants, for Prozac or Paxil. And they get you right away. "Are you sad? Do you get stressed, do you have anxiety?" "Yes, I have all those things! I'm alive!"

Ellen DeGeneres

#6. As I write, I control my anxiety and anguish thanks to the invaluable aid of irony and humor. But every night I am subdued by an anxiety that knows no irony, and I must wait until the next day to rediscover the blend of anguish and humor that characterizes my writing and that generates my style.

Enrique Vila-Matas

#7. Taste is developed by the diversity of the products one can sample. I think our children today may be missing an education about food. We must teach them to know their cuisine and to know the equilibrium of nourishment. That is very important for health.

Joel Robuchon

#8. Over time, parents have barnacled the most routine activities in infancy with their own preoccupations. It's sometimes hard to see the baby for all the barnacles.

Nicholas Day

#9. Procrastination is the lazy cousin of fear.When we feel anxiety around an activity, we postpone it.

Noelle Hancock

#10. I've had a lot of therapists, so I've had the opportunity to approach my fear in many different ways. I've faced it head on and sideways and tried to tiptoe up behind it.

Anna White

#11. Sometimes, I feel my breath coming in shorter, quicker, spastic bursts, feel my heart threaten to thunder through my ribs, feel sweat beading on my brow ... and I know it's time to bust out those "chocolate frogs" from Harry Potter.

Shannon Celebi

#12. Both sides said, "I don't need you," and both answered, "You'll still stay.

Seanan McGuire

#13. By living a life "against nature," the deviant or pervert becomes a hero or heroine in decadent fiction.

Asti Hustvedt

#14. Worry wasn't an emotion to which he was particularly accustomed - and it worried him.

Sol Luckman

#15. Behind the cool mask of bravado, past the one-way mirror of his mind, underneath the rock-solid layers of self-control, in the Zen garden that was Master Sewer's soul, a high-pitched anxiety fart rustled through the still leaves. If farts could talk, this one would have said, Damn coppers!

Sorin Suciu

#16. Do you remember what I forgot?

Erica Goros

#17. We should believe in quality of books rather than quantity of books.

M.H. Rakib

#18. While writing is like a joyful release, editing is a prison where the bars are my former intentions and the abusive warden my own neuroticism.

Tiffany Madison

#19. When presented with a member of the opposite sex, some of us get numbers and some of us throw up.

Daria Snadowsky

#20. And I have a tiny little moment of anxiety, because I can't remember whether or not we're meant to be boycotting mars bars.

David Nicholls

#21. Anxiety's like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you very far.

Jodi Picoult

#22. In every human heart is a place where you put all your broken dreams. When something doesn't work out, no matter what it may be, you just have to give it up and stuff it in with your broken dreams. And make sure you keep the lid on tight.

Sayo Masuda

#23. My friends scoffed at my anxiety and said dumb things like, 'Fifty is the new forty!' Which just made me realize that there are a whole lot of other people who suck at math as bad as I do. No. Fifty is fifty.

Celia Rivenbark

#24. A sense of humor is a measurement of the extent to which we realize that we are trapped in a world almost totally devoid of reason. Laughter is how we express the anxiety we feel at this knowledge.

Dave Barry

#25. Comedy is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized men and women, where we have no dust of the struggling outer world, no mire, no violent crashes, to make the correctness of the representation convincing.

George Meredith

#26. When your past shows up to haunt you, make sure it comes after supper so it doesn't ruin your whole day.

Jay Wickre

#27. Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.

Grenville Kleiser

#28. I love consumerism, TV culture, shopping malls. There's nothing I'd ever buy, but I like being there. It's wacky.

John Lydon

#29. I'm a comedian, and I have my share of anxiety and depression; so do most of my friends. My humor tends to lie in the juxtaposition of extreme lightness - I'm a huge musical-theater fan - and extreme darkness. And so I really like playing with those because that's how I feel.

Rachel Bloom

#30. I realized that I was okay with myself. I was quirky and withdrawn and loud, but I liked that. I smiled at strangers without thinking they were going to attack me and drag me into their cars. I went to doctors' offices and touched magazines that had been touched by sick people.

Anna White