Anxiety Quotes - Page 17

• Her stillness was such a contrast to all the jumbled communication inside me that I suddenly felt what a tiresome fellow I was, always filling the air with the rattle of words and anxieties.

  Robin Hobb

  Communication, Air, Illness

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• From restless thoughts, that, like a deadly swarm Of hornets arm'd, no sooner found alone, But rush upon me thronging.

  John Milton

  Thinking, Arms, Restless

  John Milton, Elijah Fenton (1831). “Paradise Lost : a Poem in Twelve Books”, p.96

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• Riches bring anxiety; wisdom gives peace of mind.

  Solomon Ibn Gabirol

  Peace, Giving, Mind

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• In all of my looking at happiness, one thing I noticed right away is that the opposite of happiness isn't unhappiness or even depression, it's anxiety. It is something that can constantly block our happiness, or our chance to reach that sort of meditative state in our work or our home lives.

  Ariel Gore

  Happiness, Block, Home

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• Underneath our nice, friendly facades there is great unease. If I were to scratch below the surface of anyone I would find fear, pain, and anxiety running amok. We all have ways to cover them up. We overeat, over-drink, overwork; we watch too much television.

  Joko Beck

  Running, Pain, Nice

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• I definitely had those moments, like any actor, when you get anxious and think, 'When am I going to work again?' But I would feel that way even when I had every offer in the world coming to me. Then I became a father and I felt a little more of the anxiety that came with the responsibility of being a parent.

  Chris O'Donnell

  Father, Responsibility, Thinking

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• The affirmation of one's essential being in spite of desires and anxieties creates joy.

  Paul Tillich

  Joy, Desire, Essentials

  Paul Tillich (1988). “Writings on religion”

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• I do a lot of public speaking and presentations and I'll always start with a self-deprecating joke to make everybody feel comfortable with my size because there can be hang-ups and anxieties.

  Warwick Davis

  Self, Size, Public Speaking

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• The anxiety I feel when I'm late is nothing like the anxiety I feel when I'm on time.

  Sade Adu

  Late, Feels

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• It’s funny, there are so many women who are former executives and have taken all that stress and anxiety and transferred it onto their kids.

  Ana Gasteyer

  Stress, Taken, Kids

  "‘Suburgatory’ Star Ana Gasteyer Talks New Show And ‘SNL’ Past". The Huffington Post Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2012.

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• I'm shy, but I'm not clinically shy. I don't have social anxiety disorder or anything like that. I more have a gentle shyness. Like, I have a little trouble mingling at parties.

  Samantha Bee

  Party, Anxiety Disorder, Shy

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• Americans are suffering so much from being in unrewarding environments that it has made us very cynical. I think that American suburbia has become a powerful generator of anxiety and depression.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Powerful, Thinking, Cynical

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• My music started as a way to break through weaknesses - like anxiety, which was completely taking over my whole life, where I could barely function.

  Zola Jesus

  Break Through, Weakness, Way

  "Zola Jesus Is A Romantic". Interview with Leila Brillson, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 21, 2011.

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• Time spent in nature decreases stress and anxiety and improves focus for adults as well as children.

  Laura Bush

  Nature, Children, Stress

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• When Shakespeare begins his exposition thus he generally at first makes people talk about the hero, but keeps the hero himself for some time out of sight, so that we await his entrance with curiosity, and sometimes with anxiety.

  Andrew Coyle Bradley

  Hero, Sight, People

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• Happiness is only available with total acceptance of who you are, including all your fears, worries, and anxiety. It will be there for you when you can see your own inner beauty. You cannot achieve happiness without using your past, your flaws, insecurities, and imperfections in a positive way. It is about letting go and detaching from unhealthy people, ideas, and lifestyle choices, and replacing them with interdependent, pro-active ways of thinking and responding.

  Lucinda Bassett

  Happiness, Letting Go, Acceptance

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• 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

  Dream, Stupid, Giving

  "Chloe Sevigny on Pauly D, Parodies, and More". Interview with Sam Bellikoff, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 14, 2011.

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• To disguise nothing, to conceal nothing, to write about those things that are closest to our pain, our happiness; to write about our sexual clumsiness, the agonies of Tantalus, the depth of our discouragement-what we glimpse in our dreams-our despair. To write about the foolish agonies of anxiety, the refreshment of our strength when these are ended; to write about our painful search for self, jeopardized by a stranger in the post office, a half-seen face in a train window, to write about the continents and populations of our dreams, about love and death, good and evil, the end of the world.

  John Cheever

  Dream, Pain, Writing

  "From the Sixties—I" by John Cheever, www.newyorker.com. January 21, 1991.

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• 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

  Jobs, Night, Doe

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• The hardest thing to write was explaining what anxiety feels like. Every time I'd try to really write about what it feels like to have an anxiety attack, I would actually have an anxiety attack. It was good material but so incredibly uncomfortable.

  Jenny Lawson

  Writing, Trying, Explaining

  "Sassy Bloggess Jenny Lawson Mandates Cheesecake for Everyone...and for You to Read Her (Mostly True) Memoir, Out Today". Interview with Meredith Turits, www.glamour.com. April 17, 2012.

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• It came home to me indelibly that I was never going to change anything in America by walking around carrying a sign. It was a great revelation. It saved me a lot of anxiety and a lot of wasted energy.

  Peter Coyote

  Home, America, Energy

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• As far as the anxiety, I have no idea about it. I don't feel like I have any nervousness out there. I'm just a guy who really cares about being competitive and that's the bottom line.

  Dontrelle Willis

  Ideas, Guy, Care

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

  Zoe Saldana

  Kids, Pressure, Rooms

  "Zoe Saldana confirms she's having twins with cutest hint" by Marc Malkin, www.today.com. October 02, 2014.

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• My sense is that economic anxiety means electoral volatility.

  Tim Kaine

  Mean, Economic, Volatility

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• Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his [mankind's] ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation.

  Hans Arp

  Ego, Noise, Void

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