Top 100 Anxiety Is Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Anxiety Is

#1. Gather experience ... Look at what you should not look at. A feeling of anxiety is the sure and certain evidence that you should do this.

Clive Barker

#2. We may assume that we keep people waiting symbolically because we do not wish to see them and that our anxiety is due not to being late, but to having to see them at all.

Cyril Connolly

#3. I'm allowed to male mistakes
I'm allowed to feel good sometimes
Anxiety is my bitch
I don't like these feelings, but they won't hurt me
I'm going to be alright

Robert Duff

#4. Anxiety is caused by a lack of control, organization, preparation, and action. - David Kekich

David Allen

#5. Anxiety is a sin also because it is a lack of acceptance of God's providence in our lives.

Jerry Bridges

#6. Anxiety is the fear of one's self.

Wilhelm Stekel

#7. Anxiety is a kind of fuel that activates the fight-or-flight part of the brain in me. It makes sure that a velociraptor isn't around the corner and that you do as much as you possibly can to survive. Because Hollywood has a lot in common with 'Jurassic Park' and its primeval-dinosaur universe.

Ben Affleck

#8. I believe such passion-even passion born of fear and anxiety-is far better than a life of banality.

Lori Nelson

#9. A fear is a reaction to a specific danger, to which the individual can make a specific adjustment. But what characterizes anxiety is the feeling of diffuseness and uncertainty and the experience of helplessness toward the threat.

Rollo May

#10. Anxiety is simply living out the future before it gets here.

Kevin DeYoung

#11. Conscious anxiety is more painful but it is available also to use in the service of integration of the self.

Rollo May

#12. I've always been interested in intellectual history and in psychology, and anxiety is obviously something that's been a big part of my life.

Scott Stossel

#13. The only reality is "anxiety" in the whole chain of beings. To the man lost in the world and its diversions this anxiety is a brief, fleeting fear. But if that fear becomes conscious of itself, it becomes anguish, the perpetual climate of the lucid man "in whom existence is concentrated.

Albert Camus

#14. Theologian Paul Tillich. Tillich characterizes anxiety into three categories: "ontic anxiety" is the fear of fate and death. The second is "moral anxiety," from guilt, or condemnation. The third is "spiritual anxiety," prompted by an empty life, without direction or meaning.

Caitlin Moran

#15. I'm wise to be a good steward, but I'll never be my own rescuer. The worth thing you can do with fear and anxiety is to pretend you're too strong to have them. The best thing you can do is just to let Him be in charge of them

Matt Chandler

#16. Moving to New York City and doing what I do, social anxiety is a really ridiculous kind of curse to have. But I met people along the way who deal with it - performers as well - and they are learning to deal with it daily and deal with it in different ways.

Sharon Van Etten

#17. Anxiety is the greatest evil that can befall a soul, except sin. God commands you to pray, but He forbids you to worry.

Saint Francis De Sales

#18. We like slipping, but not falling; our real anxiety is to be tempted enough.

Augustus William Hare

#19. In many cases your imagination is much more effective than what can be shown. It primes you to know something is about to happen - the anticipation and anxiety is worse than what ends up happening.

Oren Peli

#20. Learning to know anxiety is an adventure which every man has to affront if he would not go to perdition either by not having known anxiety or by sinking under it. He therefore who has leaned rightly to be in anxiety has learned the most important thing.

Soren Kierkegaard

#21. The quickest way to relieve anxiety is ACTION!

Walter Inglis Anderson

#22. Anxiety is the price tag on human freedom

Louis Menand

#23. In an underdeveloped society, the first anxiety is of infant mortality. In an advanced one it is to keep alive the aged.

Indira Gandhi

#24. I feel I always have to work harder, I have to impress all the time. Impress whom? With what? People say, "Just be yourself." Well, my anxiety is that people aren't going to want that.

Meredith Vieira

#25. Anxiety is the fear of the unknown, fear of the uncontrollable.

Debasish Mridha

#26. Anxiety is extremely contagious, but so is calm.

Harriet Lerner

#27. Anxiety is an extension of the dynamics of fear. It's the feeling of fear without an awareness of the object of your fear. All you know is that you're fearful, but you can't specify exactly what you are afraid of. You just worry about everything.

G. Frank Lawlis

#28. To say that my anxiety is reducible to the ions in my amygdala is as limiting as saying that my personality or my soul is reducible to the molecules that make up my brain cells or to the genes that underwrote them.

Scott Stossel

#29. It struck me then, for the first time, how unethical anxiety is, how it voids the reality of other people by conscripting them as palliatives for your own fear.

Adam Haslett

#30. Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's jobs with yesterday's tools!

Marshall McLuhan

#31. Eventually our anxiety is compounded and made unbearable by our belief that if we were just smarter, stronger, or better, we'd be able to handle everything.

Brene Brown

#32. Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.

Anais Nin

#33. Anxiety is a sign that you have made up a story contrary to reality. Love does not fear.

Alan Cohen

#34. Anxiety is stemmed from worrying about the past and worrying about the future!

John Di Lemme

#35. Anxiety is not normal. Believe it or not, you were NOT designed to live distressed or be consumed by mental uneasiness.

Rene Vidal

#36. In anxiety, however, we are threatened without knowing what steps to take to meet the danger. Anxiety is the feeling of being "caught," "overwhelmed"; and instead of becoming sharper, our perceptions generally become blurred or vague.

Rollo May

#37. Anxiety is the fear that one of a pair of opposites might cancel the other. Forever.

Alan Watts

#38. Information anxiety is the black hole between data and knowledge, and it happens when information doesn't tell us what we want or need to know.

Richard Saul Wurman

#39. This unresting anxiety is the greatest evil which can happen to the soul, sin only excepted.

Francis De Sales

#40. A lady should never feel anxious about her behavior. The status is bred in the bone. To show anxiety is to lower oneself. Anxiety is vulgar.

Eloisa James

#41. If you didn't have anxiety, then you wouldn't have passion for anything. The reason we have anxiety is because you care and you're thoughtful.

Kristen Stewart

#42. The anxiety that has followed me through my life like a bad friend had reappeared with a vengeance and taken a brand-new form ... I didn't know why this was happening. The cruel reality of anxiety is that you never quite do.

Lena Dunham

#43. I didn't know why this was happening. The cruel reality of anxiety is that you never quite do. At the moments it should logically strike, I am fit as a fiddle. On a lazy afternoon, I am seized by a cold dread.

Lena Dunham

#44. 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.

Thomas Merton

#45. Honestly facing your lack of sovereignty over your own life produces either anxiety or relief. Anxiety is God-forgetting. It is the result of thinking that is life is on your shoulders, that it is your job to figure it all out and keep things in order.

Paul David Tripp

#46. Don't get depressed about not being where you want to be. This nagging feeling of anxiety is actually called ambition. Ambition is your friend.

Atom Egoyan

#47. Every anxiety is a mild form of premonition, and from that point the shade deepens till we get the forebodings and hauntings that merge into lunacy.

Arthur Alfred Lynch

#48. The warding off of anxiety is central to the time-binding, action-delaying, and cerebral functions of the human animal.

Ernest Becker

#49. Whenever you make a big decision in life, at least any decision
where you have a viable alternative, there is an inevitable uneasy aftermath.
Anxiety is merely a sign that you're taking something seriously.

Emily Giffin

#50. In fact most of what we call anxiety is overconcern about what someone thinks of you.

Albert Ellis

#51. It is very difficult to appreciate from the outside what a person in severe anxiety is experiencing. Brown rightly remarked about his friends 'imploring a drowning man [me] to swim when they don't know that under the water his hands and feet are tied.

Rollo May

#52. Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation and everything that is finest in human history.

Charles Frankel

#53. Ours is a time of anxiety because we have willed it to be so. Our anxiety is not imposed on us by force from outside. We impose it on our world and upon one another from within ourselves.

Thomas Merton

#54. Fear or anxiety is a normal part of living. It's the body's way of telling us something isn't right. It keeps us from harm's way and prepares us to act quickly in the face of danger.

Abhijit Naskar

#55. To grapple with and understand anxiety is, in some sense, to grapple with and understand the human condition.

Scott Stossel

#56. The burden of my anxiety is not my child's.

Paula Heller Garland

#57. Anxiety is unable to relax in the face of chaos; continuous prayer clings to the Father in the face of chaos.

Paul E. Miller

#58. Anxiety is a state of apprehension, uncertainty, and fear resulting from the anticipation of a realistic or fantasized threatening event or situation. Often, men will appear confident and self-assured to others but actually be living with a great deal of worry and fear.

Jed Diamond

#59. Anxiety is experiencing failure in advance. Tell yourself enough vivid stories about the worst possible outcome of your work and you'll soon come to believe them. Worry is not preparation, and anxiety doesn't make you better.

Seth Godin

#60. Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition.

Alain De Botton

#61. I think anxiety is very interesting, observed Amy, eating sugar pensively.

Louisa May Alcott

#62. When my anxiety is really bad, the fast beating of my heart makes my body feel like it rocks back and forth.

Tina J. Richardson

#63. Another cause of confusion, and the resulting feelings of nervousness, hurry, and anxiety, is the absurd habit of trying to do many things at one time.

Maxwell Maltz

#64. I am in a house. I am in one room and my anxiety is in another. It's close. I can feel it. I can go to it. But I won't.

Samantha Schutz

#65. It's like a mother, when the baby is crying, she picks up the baby and she holds the baby tenderly in her arms. Your pain, your anxiety is your baby. You have to take care of it. You have to go back to yourself, to recognize the suffering in you, embrace the suffering, and you get a relief.

Nhat Hanh

#66. anxiety is out of place in the present moment. It depends on the past and the future for its existence. This understanding matters if you hope to let go of your struggle with anxiety.

Kelly G. Wilson

#67. My ability to turn good news into anxiety is rivaled only by my ability to turn anxiety into chin acne.

Tina Fey

#68. One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.

Rollo May

#69. Hope ... is one of the ways in which what is merely future and potential is made vividly present and actual to us. Hope is the positive, as anxiety is the negative, mode of awaiting the future.

Emil Brunner

#70. I think anxiety is dangerous, but it makes you think it's your friend.

Noah Baumbach

#71. When object of our anxiety is God, then that brings ecstacy.

Radhanath Swami

#72. It was the beginning of an anxiety that would never end, except with the deaths of either or both; and anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but it is not compatible with innocence.

Angela Carter

#73. Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity

T. S. Eliot

#74. The truth is that anxiety is at once a function of biology and philosophy, body and mind, instinct and reason, personality and culture.

Scott Stossel

#75. Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within.

David Duchovny

#76. Anxiety is the natural result when our hopes are centered in anything short of God and His will.

Billy Graham

#77. We used to moralize; today we normalize, and performance anxiety is the secular version of our old religious guilt.

Esther Perel

#78. Other Definitions of Worry Anxiety is the great modern plague. But faith can cure it.

Smiley Blanton

#79. Historians will probably call our era "the age of anxiety." Anxiety is the natural result when our hopes are centered in anything short of God and His will for us.

Billy Graham

#80. Up to a certain point anxiety is good, for it promotes action. Beyond that point we freeze any fixed attitudes or rush about without thinking deeply from one decision to another.

Jules Henry

#81. If anxiety is the major force of our contemporary condition, a lot of poetry - including my own, mostly - sort of tries to escape that, fly off into magical thinking or bewilderment or whatever.

Mike Young

#82. Every day my anxiety is higher,
every day the grief more mortal.
Today more than yesterday terror exalts me ...

Pier Paolo Pasolini

#83. Anxiety is our agitated soul scrambling for control.

Beth Moore

#84. Your anxiety is lying yo you. You are going to be okay.

Unknown

#85. The answer to anxiety is always to exalt Christ.

Ann Voskamp

#86. Anxiety is not only an inevitable part of the writing process but a necessary part. If you're not scared, you're not writing.

Ralph Keyes

#87. Anxiety is the gap between the NOW and the THEN. So if you are in the NOW, you can't be anxious, because your excitement flows immediately into ongoing spontaneous activity.

Bruce Lee

#88. Anxiety is the gap between now and later.

Frederick Salomon Perls

#89. The only way I can describe the extent of my anxiety is to say that I felt as if I were pregnant with a rock.

Katharine Graham

#90. Anxiety is a natural thing humans have. You know, that's how we evolve. That's how we are, you know, we think things through. Sometimes my mind just thinks things through a lot.

Vinny Guadagnino

#91. The worst thing you can do with fear and anxiety is to pretend you're too strong to have them. The best thing you can do is just to let Him be in charge of them. Because He's in charge anyway. And in Him, you're in His peace.

Matt Chandler

#92. I don't know what anxiety is like anymore.

Alicia Silverstone

#93. Exploiting people's emotions of fear, envy and anxiety is not hope, it's not change, it's partisanship. We don't need partisanship. We don't need demagoguery, we need solutions.

Paul Ryan

#94. The great antidote to anxiety is to come to God in prayer. We are to pray about everything. Nothing is too big for Him to handle, and nothing is too small to escape His attention.

Jerry Bridges

#95. The biggest anxiety is just about America's role in the world. People are feeling very unsafe. They really are. They're just wondering whether, anything can be done to try to stabilize the world a little bit.

Chris Christie