Quotes About Anxieties

#1. Sicknesses, losses, crosses, anxieties and disappointments seem absolutely needful to keep us humble, watchful and spiritual-minde d. They are as needful as the pruning knife to the vine and the refiner's furnace to the gold.

J.C. Ryle

#2. Every day I pray. I yield myself to God and the tensions and anxieties go out of me and peace and power come in.

Dale Carnegie

#3. Our anxieties were driving us to become other people - he was Earner; I was
Mother, like characters in some phenomenally boring Ionesco play.

Claire Dederer

#4. Psychics tap into what is collective: our regret and our sense of time going by; our common repression and anxieties.

Hilary Mantel

#5. Outsource your anxieties to God. This 'outsourcing' will help you in such a way that you will become only a witness to adverse situations, without becoming a part of the problem yourself.

Sanchita Pandey

#6. The pleasure of leaving home, care-free, with no concern but to enjoy, has also as a pendant the pleasure of coming back to the old hearthstone, the home to which, however traveled, the heart still fondly turns, ignoring the burden of its anxieties and cares.

Herman Melville

#7. Sufficient to each day are the duties to be done and the trials to be endured. God never built a Christian strong enough to carry today's duties and tomorrow's anxieties piled on the top of them.

Theodore L. Cuyler

#8. Good communication is not just data transfer. You need to show people something that addresses their anxieties, that accepts their anger, that is credible in a very gut-level sense, and that evokes faith in the vision.

John P. Kotter

#9. And the candle by the light of which she had been reading that book filled with anxieties, deceptions, grief and evil, flared up brighter than ever, lit up for her all that had once been darkness, sputtered, grew dim and went out for ever.

Leo Tolstoy

#10. It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations
past and present
are often incomprehensible to outsiders, but the individual's hungers, anxieties, dreams, and preoccupations have remained unchanged through the millenia.

Eric Hoffer

#11. Alcoholics crave a drink because it offers escape, relaxation, companionship, the blunting of anxieties, and an opportunity for emotional release.

Charles Duhigg

#12. Any anxieties publishers have about putting a child on the front cover of a book who isn't white is very old fashioned.

Malorie Blackman

#13. When one of my Japanese teacups is broken, I imagine that the real cause was not the careless hand of a maid but the anxieties of the figures inhabiting the curves of that porcelain. Their grim decision to commit suicide doesn't shock me: they used the maid as one of us might use a gun.

Fernando Pessoa

#14. How Lilliputian all those anxieties were, how serene that time!

Stefan Zweig

#15. When your heart is calm and filled with love, you will not be touched by stress or anxieties.

Debasish Mridha

#16. There was one floor that was all gynecologists. They could tell by the remnants of weird optical contraptions- all the convoluted tools men use when they're searching for the source of their anxieties.

Carl Watson

#17. One of our anxieties is de-focusing the relatively small number of engineers we have. Within our own core development, I am reluctant to fund projects that are way afield of where we are.

Howard Hughes

#18. The new world, the communo-bourgeois, sermonizing, Tartuffian, automobilistic, alcoholic, gluttonous and cancerous world has only two anxieties: ass and bank account ...

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#19. I feel often that we don't have the right language to talk about emotions in disasters. Everyone is on edge, of course, but it also pulls people away from a lot of trivial anxieties and past and future concerns and gratuitous preoccupations that we have, and refocuses us in a very intense way.

Rebecca Solnit

#20. But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties.

Donald G. Mitchell

#21. The unsparing savagery of stories like the Robber Bridegroom is a sharp reminder that fairy tales belong to the childhood of culture as much as the culture of childhood ... they capture anxieties and fantasies that have deep roots in childhood experience

Maria Tatar

#22. I like trains. I like their rhythm, and I like the freedom of being suspended between two places, all anxieties of purpose taken care of: for this moment I know where I am going.

Anna Funder

#23. Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes.

Oliver Goldsmith

#24. Realism's anxieties are not my anxieties, but I think I've had its tools close at hand all along. It may be that I'm reaching for them more often than I used to. On the other hand, I'm making no promises for the future. The material itself always gets the last word.

Roy Kesey

#25. Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind.

Jonathan Edwards

#26. The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.

Seneca The Younger

#27. When someone is suffering from anxieties, depression, and stress, the only treatment is to change awareness and consciousness.

Debasish Mridha

#28. But when technology engineers intimacy, relationships can be reduced to mere connections. And then, easy connection becomes redefined as intimacy. Put otherwise, cyberintimacies slide into cybersolitudes. And with constant connection comes new anxieties of disconnection,

Sherry Turkle

#29. Man's nature, his passions, and anxieties are a cultural product; as a matter of fact, man himself is the most important creation and achievement of the continuous human effort, the record of which we call history.

Erich Fromm

#30. Art is a distinct form of human communication. Art interprets experience, sensation, and feelings. An artistic work translates our mental images and allows other people to understand what we feel; art conveys our happiness, sadness, hopes, doubts, anxieties, fears, desires, and ineffable longings.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#31. [Rumors are a] vehicle for anxieties and aspirations that may not be openly expressed.

James Scott

#32. Mankind's history has proved from one era to another that the true criterion of leadership is spiritual. Men are attracted by spirit. By power, men are forced. Love is engendered by spirit. By power, anxieties are created.

Malcolm X

#33. There are elements of Piglet that are me: the shyness and the anxieties and fears. Even after all these years. The more you know, the higher your standards are and the more you have to lose.

John Fiedler

#34. To grow old means to be rid of anxieties about the past.

Stefan Zweig

#35. Added. Apparently a mere two-cab caravan was not enough to trigger Ariane's anxieties, and so the one carrying

Neal Stephenson

#36. All our anxieties relate to time ... The major problems of psychiatry revolve around an analysis of the despair, pessimism, melancholy, and complexes that are the inheritances of what has been or with the fears, anxieties, worries, that are the imaginings of what will be.

Fulton J. Sheen

#37. Childhood anxieties, childhood fears, never disappear entirely. They fade, but not away.

Lauren Bacall

#38. Leave aside your regrets of the past and anxieties of the future
And focus intelligently on the present.
This is the best way of ensuring a positive future.

Chinmayananda Saraswati

#39. I think nonviolence and the mediation of conflict by means of respecting civility must be promoted. But being the kind of beings we [peoplep] are - wrestling with greed, and wrestling with fears and security, anxieties, wrestling with hatred that's shot through all of us - wars are here to stay.

Cornel West

#40. Some of my fear and anxieties surrounding faith, I think, provides some good comedy for my act.

Jim Gaffigan

#41. Anxieties migrate, proliferate.

Sherry Turkle

#42. The way of the superior person is threefold; virtuous, they are free from anxieties; wise they are free from perplexities; and bold they are free from fear.

Confucius

#43. This is how I feel about horror films: there's enough scary things that happen in day-to-day life. Sometimes just going and getting the mail is scary, when you open your bills. And so, sometimes I feel like scary movies are just tapping into those anxieties and magnifying them.

Josh Hamilton

#44. I am a man of very many anxieties but doing strange things with the camera is not one of them.

Lars Von Trier

#45. Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.

Fulton J. Sheen

#46. A good mother does not live only for her children. She always has some bond with other mothers, no matter what class, nationality or race they may be. All mothers have the same joys, the same sorrows, the same anxieties. All mothers think first of their child and of children.

Werenfried Von Straaten

#47. When we are not too anxious about happiness and unhappiness, but devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty, then happiness comes of itself
nay, even springs from the midst of a life of troubles and anxieties and privations.

Wilhelm Von Humboldt

#48. Be the good & seek the good. Faith fights anxieties ... go after your faith with body, mind & soul.

Erica Goros

#49. In sharp contrast to the idea that this stage of life is enviable, we hear high levels of anxiety about getting old, anxieties about health, mobility, access to facilities, simple routine care and attention.

Rowan Williams

#50. My fears and anxieties throughout my whole life have been slowly squeezing my voice.

Shania Twain

#51. Anxieties and controversies were now as clearly traceable through it as woodgrain through varnish.

China Mieville

#52. She believed that people revealed themselves most when they were vaguely anxious, and few things brought out nonspecific anxieties like being in the presence of a person who never speaks.

Orson Scott Card

#53. Finally, you are in the most magical world having the most wonderful time. Let us not fill it with stress or anxieties.

Debasish Mridha

#54. There are endless anxieties in putting a film together, and it's an enormous relief when you know it's working with an audience.

Errol Morris

#55. The media no longer hesitate to whip up lurid anxieties in order to increase sales, in the process undermining social confidence and multiplying fears.

A.C. Grayling

#56. Parental anxieties: A timeline. Pre-1800s: Potato famine, death of entire villages. 1900s: Trying to keep dad's job through depression so entire family does not starve or have to sell off children to agribusiness. 2000: Infringement of Parenthood on sense of Personhood.

Sandra Tsing Loh

#57. There are a lot of movies I would want to be a fly on the wall for. I would have loved to see the making of Jaws [1975], with all the fears and anxieties it was going to be a complete failure, and then to have it turn into the first blockbuster.

Cary Fukunaga

#58. Our real fears are the sounds of footsteps walking in the corridors of our minds, and the anxieties, the phantom floatings, they create.

Truman Capote

#59. My anxieties have anxieties.

Charles M. Schulz

#60. The petty cares, the minute anxieties, the infinite littles which go to make up the sum of human experience, like the invisible granules of powder, give the last and highest polish to a character.

William Matthews

#61. We middle-aged folk have the education of life, truly; we know the multiplication table of anxieties and sorrows, the subtraction table of loss, the division table of responsibility.

Margaret Deland

#62. To each of man's ages the Lord gives its own anxieties.

Paulo Coelho

#63. You can throw the whole weight of your anxieties upon him, for you are his personal concern.

J.B. Phillips

#64. There were no vampires of note in Western literature until about the 18th century. But they tell us where we park our anxieties, whether its over-powerful women, death or damnation. We make our own monsters.

Deborah Harkness

#65. Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its griefs and anxieties.
[Lat., Secundas res splendidiores facit amicitia, et adversas partiens communicansque leviores.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#66. The only thing I know anything about are my own fantasies and anxieties. I don't trust my eyes. I consider myself to be a short-story writer.

Duane Michals

#67. Turn your attention for a while away from the worries and anxieties. Remind yourself of all your many blessings.

Ralph Marston

#68. Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

William James

#69. I will practice coming back to the present moment ... not letting regrets and sorrow drag me back into the past or letting anxieties, fears, or cravings pull me out ...

Nhat Hanh

#70. If we do not fill our mind with prayer, it will fill itself with anxieties, worries, temptations, resentments, and unwelcome memories.

Scott Hahn

#71. When new technologies impose themselves on societies long habituated to older technologies, anxieties of all kinds result.

Marshall McLuhan

#72. Life can be messy.
No doubt, a lot of these kids are living proof.
But in spite of their anxieties and their angers,
At least-
They
Are trying to live.

Terri Fields

#73. We are full of fears and anxieties over our position, which makes us doubly cruel and dangerous.

Yuval Noah Harari

#74. Congratulations on surviving life up to this point. All the trials, heartaches, deceptions, sorrows and anxieties...You've come through all the adversity and are still here to tell the tale! you are quite simply, brilliant!

Karen Gibbs

#75. Blessed be the Sunshine, for it will stem the flow of life's anxieties ... for a while at least

P.A.Davies

#76. It was as though all my hostilities, anxieties, and conflicts were in one ball that was flying away into space, farther from me all the time, leaving me content with myself.

Bobby Darin

#77. Look, I grew up in, went to school in, and now live in the American South, and southern white women are interesting, complex and quirky, even the ones with racial anxieties.

Melissa Harris-Perry

#78. In the new economy, we all have to be entrepreneurs with our own lives - with all the rewards and risks and, yes, anxieties that entails.

Nina Easton

#79. A child, yes, is a vortex of anxieties.

Elena Ferrante

#80. This is likely because you're so consumed by your own dramas, anxieties, distractions, insecurities, and duties that you aren't receptive to inspiration.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#81. Try to see the world as a great education in Love and do not quarrel with your lot in life. Do not complain because of your unending cares and anxieties, your mean surroundings, the small and sordid souls you are obliged to live with. That is God's way of making you practise.

Paulo Coelho

#82. By now, we're all familiar with the literary post-apocalyptic world's metaphors. The zombies are our anxieties. The vampires are our greed. Our fairies are hope. Our werewolves are ... what again? Something

Taffy Brodesser-Akner

#83. What I said about John was that he liberated me from my anxieties about writing in a correct, acceptable way.

Harry Mathews

#84. Never worry about what you are escaping from," he said. "Reserve your anxieties for what you are escaping to.

Michael Chabon

#85. Love is a state of being, and in that state, the 'me', with its identifications, anxieties, and possessions is absent. Love cannot be, as long as the activities of the self, of the 'me', whether conscious or unconscious, continue to exist.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#86. We go on multiplying our conveniences only to multiply our cares. We increase our possessions only to the enlargement of our anxieties.

Anna C. Brackett

#87. For here now is the age of iron. Never by daytime will there be an end to hard work and pain, nor in the night to weariness, when the gods will send anxieties to trouble us.

Hesiod

#88. We build our technologies as a way of addressing all our anxieties and desires. They are our passions congealed into these prosthetic extensions of ourselves. And they do it in a way that reflects what we dream ourselves capable of doing.

Richard Powers

#89. The consumerist cycle both depended on and strengthened capitalism, and thus worked to allay other postwar anxieties about nuclear attack and Communism, both of which had become linked to fears about the power of women's sexuality run amok.

Rebecca Traister

#90. Poetry is the truth dressed up with perceptions, emotions, and anxieties of expression.

Debasish Mridha

#91. He had been living in the dark world of his anxieties, and no infliction of reality could seem more terrible than that

Peter Ackroyd

#92. The simplicity and uniformity of rural occupations, and their incessant practice, preclude any anxieties and agitations of hope and fear, to which employments of a more precarious and casual nature are subject.

William Falconer

#93. Even in those cities which seem to enjoy the blessings of peace, and where the arts florish, the inhabitants are devoured by envy, cares and anxieties, which are greater plagues than any expirienced in a town when it is under siege.

Voltaire

#94. One thing that's always helped quell my writerly anxieties is seeking out interviews with writers I admire.

Molly Antopol

#95. Victory becomes, to some degree, a state of mind. Knowing ourselves superior to the anxieties, troubles, and worries which obsess us, we are superior to them.

Basil King

#96. Night is a time of terror. Worries and anxieties are unleashed by the darkness, when the distractions and the busyness of the day can no longer keep them at bay. Killing Lincoln by Bill O'Reilly

Bill O'Reilly

#97. Any good director, and I've worked with a few that I would call very good, they know how to disarm any anxieties very quickly.

Carmen Ejogo

#98. That's one of the reasons I wanted to be an actor, to be like them. And there they were at my table, all talking about how nervous they were, about the lines, and so forth. No matter how big you get, you still have the same kinds of anxieties and so forth.

Gavin MacLeod

#99. At times I have long conversations with God. Sometimes I ask questions. I admit that there are also times when I let out my frustrations, fears, and anxieties in less than honorable ways. No matter what I pray about or how I pray about it, the result I always get is comfort.

Iyanla Vanzant

#100. A muse can be a mirror: a reflection of the artist's desires, anxieties, dreams and needs.

Vince Aletti