Quotes about anxiety

"The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear."

Billings, Josh on anxiety
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"Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst."

Bradley, Francis H. on anxiety   

"Suspense is worst than disappointment."

Burns, Robert on anxiety   

"We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out another very often."

Churchill, Winston on anxiety
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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."

Cuyler, Theodore L. on anxiety   

"Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is, with thoughts of what may be."

Dryden, John on anxiety
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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?"

Edwards, Tryon on anxiety
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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."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on anxiety
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"Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight."

Franklin, Benjamin on anxiety
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"Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest."

Johnson, Ben on anxiety   

"Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity"

Jones, Chuck on anxiety
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"Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom."

Kierkegaard, Søren on anxiety
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"Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbors."

Kipling, Rudyard on anxiety
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"The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came."

Lowell, James Russell on anxiety
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"There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it."

Ovid on anxiety   

"Love is full of anxious fears."

Ovid on anxiety
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"Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain."

Rilke, Rainer Maria on anxiety
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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."

Roche, Arthur Somers on anxiety
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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."

Ruckett on anxiety
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"The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable."

Seneca on anxiety
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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 on anxiety
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"Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety."

Smith, Frank on anxiety
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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."

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon on anxiety
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"Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on anxiety
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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."

Valery, Paul on anxiety   

"The suspense is terrible, I hope it will last."

Wilde, Oscar on anxiety
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