Anxiety Quotes

For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.
Edvard Munch

Art, Long, Deep

Freedom from care and anxiety of mind is a blessing, which I apprehend such people enjoy in higher perfection than most others, and is of the utmost consequence.
William Falconer

Freedom, Mind, Care

Fear, anxiety and neurosis: that's just in the suitcase when you're an actor.
Laura Linney

Fear, Actor, Suitcase

I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?
Zbigniew Brzezinski

Leadership, Power, Fear

The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety.
Norman Mailer

What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?
Thomas a Kempis

Future, Else, Sorrow

Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God.
Thomas a Kempis

Peace, Great, God

Much of today's public anxiety about science is the apprehension that we may forever be overlooking the whole by an endless, obsessive preoccupation with the parts.
Lewis Thomas

Science, Today, May

Now that I have conquered social anxiety disorder, I find pleasure in fans approaching me.
Ricky Williams

Find, Social, Pleasure

Well, I am now convinced there is no kind of fear or anxiety anyone has to live with.
Ricky Williams

Fear, Live, Anyone

After having done this whole slew of press for 'Big Love,' now I'll have anxiety dreams for like a week and a half about all the stupid things I said. I can't even imagine being in front of the cameras all the time. I had a weird dream the other night that I was on 'Jersey Shore.'
Chloe Sevigny

Love, Dreams, Time

The anxiety does crawl up. The other night I was having panic attacks: 'Oh, my God, what's going to happen to me? Am I ever going to have another job?'
Chloe Sevigny

God, Job, Night

Even having to do the amount of press that I have to do is dreadful and gives me so much anxiety. After having done this whole slew of press for 'Big Love,' now I'll have anxiety dreams for like a week and a half about all the stupid things I said.
Chloe Sevigny

Love, Dreams, Stupid

I grew up very self-loathing. I was a phobic. I had anxiety. I had panic attacks.
Dane Cook

Panic, Attacks, Phobic

People with anxiety disorders such as OCD know that nothing can be more paralyzing than having too many options. Go to a store to buy a sweater, find four that you like and the odds are pretty good you'll stare and stare... and buy nothing at all.
Jeffrey Kluger

Good, Nothing, Find

We're all sick of holy wars and bloodshed because religion is supposed to give us life and a better life and is supposed to bring out our best self. When it results in mass destruction and hatred and anxiety, it's the antithesis I think of what religion was designed to do.
Vera Farmiga

Life, Religion, Best

I've been having this really weird anxiety dream about arriving too late or too early, and the people in charge are like, 'You have to leave! You have to go back to the hotel and get ready!' And I use the wrong exit, and I'm running down the red carpet in pyjamas, like, 'No! Don't look at me!'
Florence Welch

Down, Wrong, Dream

I'm excited about going back to 'Today,' but, at odd moments, I'll grit my teeth in anxiety. I feel like a student before the start of school. I've got my new shoes and my book bag, but I'm not sure I'll remember how to do trigonometry. During my maternity leave, I haven't used many words of more than one syllable.
Jane Pauley

Today, School, Book

My mother's suicide attempts were a way to release anxiety and get attention. Some of the attempts were drug reactions she didn't even remember later on.
Lorna Luft

Mother, Remember, She

I have reared, or helped to rear, five children and the scariest bit, bar none, is the learning-to-drive part. It has filled me with anxiety not only about the children, but also about my former self and my friends.
Jane Smiley

Children, Self, Friends

A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is.
Pauline Kael

Mistake, Judgment, Fatal

With success came an ever-growing burden of responsibility. I lived with a near-constant low-level anxiety that I would make a mistake that would not only threaten my career, but also my brothers' - not to mention the livelihoods of many people who work with us or for us.
Donny Osmond

Success, Work, Career

Well, unless you've suffered from panic attacks and social anxiety disorders, which is what I was diagnosed as having, it's hard to explain it. But you go on stage knowing you're actually physically going to die. You will keel over and die.
Donny Osmond

Hard, Die, Social

I have a lot of health anxiety.
Charlie Kaufman

I often thought I was in the wrong business. I was pretty seriously thinking of tossing it in before I shot Shine. I do not know why. I was pretty restless, I had been through a bad period of stress induced anxiety - panic attacks - and I was not sure of what I wanted to do.
Geoffrey Rush

Business, Bad, Stress

I love the anxiety, the pressure of the loud room full of yapping kids. But I'm a kid myself.
Zoe Saldana

Love, Kids, Full

During the periods in my marriage when I chose to stay home with my kids rather than work as an attorney, it caused me no end of anxiety. Despite the fact that I knew I was contributing to our family by caring for our children, I still felt that my worth was less because I wasn't earning.
Ayelet Waldman

Marriage, Work, Family

Generally I can sleep any time, anywhere, any place, unless I'm anxious about work. I can get performance anxiety, so when I'm on tour it can be hard to sleep.
Natalie Imbruglia

Work, Time, Sleep

When a parent shows up with an attitude of entitlement, understand that under it is a boatload of anxiety.
Robert Evans

Attitude, Understand, Parent

The root of the problem I have is anxiety, and it's all derived from something - I'm just going to say it, some kind of sadness. It manifests in so many different ways and it affects people differently.
Vinny Guadagnino

Sadness, Different, Problem

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