Anxiety Quotes - Page 24

• A doctor recently described to me "benign positional vertigo": it means you get dizzy in certain positions, but you can get over it without necessarily changing the position. Change "vertigo" to "anxiety," and you've summed up the neurotic's plight.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Mean, Doctors, Plight

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.89, BookBaby

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• When you're gripped by anxiety, worry, insomnia, or panic, make yourself shiver, quiver, tremble, and shudder. It seems silly, but it really works.

  Jude Bijou

  Silly, Insomnia, Worry

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• Without anxiety life would have very little savor.

  May Sarton

  Littles

  May Sarton (2014). “The House by the Sea: A Journal”, p.38, Open Road Media

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• Anxiety is a deep conscious breath away from dissolving.

  Michael Dolan

  Worry, Conscious, Breaths

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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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• Seems like half my anxiety dreams are about airports.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Dream, Airports, Half

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• Character begins to form at the first pinch of anxiety about ourselves.

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko

  Character, Firsts, Form

  Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (1989). “Early Poems”, Marion Boyars Publishers

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• Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

  George Santayana

  Life, Honor, Shapes

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• A person who suffers from severe locomotor anxiety finds himself in an almost permanent state of mental tension. He wakes in the morning with the anxious expectation of having to go out somewhere in the course of the day.

  Karl Abraham

  Morning, Expectations, Suffering

  Karl Abraham (1988). “Selected Papers on Psychoanalysis”, p.197, Karnac Books

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• In 1980, I published my first novel, in the usual swirl of unjustified hope and justified anxiety.

  Julian Barnes

  Usual, Firsts, Justified

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• There is always a state of anxiety, of searching and delving for style.

  Tawfiq al-Hakim

  Creativity, Style, States

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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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• 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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• Nobody should ever look anxious except those who have no anxiety.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Looks, Should, Anxious

  Benjamin Disraeli, Edmund Gosse, Robert Arnot (1904). “The works of Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield: embracing novels, romances, plays, poems, biography, short stories and great speeches”

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• Over-confidence is as evil as undue anxiety.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Evil, Over Confidence

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• Well, in the first place, it leads to great anxiety as to whether it's going to be correct or not ... I expect that's the dominating feeling. It gets to be rather a fever... At age 60, when asked about his feelings on discovering the Dirac equation.

  Paul Dirac

  Science, Feelings, Age

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• For the high achievers, studying gave them the pleasing, absorbing challenge of flow 40 percent of the hours they spent at it. But for low achievers, studying produced flow only 16 percent of the time; more often that not, it yielded anxiety, with the demands outreaching their abilities...The low achievers found pleasure and flow in socializing, not in studying.

  Daniel Goleman

  Learning, Challenges, Demand

  Daniel Goleman (2012). “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ”, p.156, Bantam

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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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• 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

  Knowing, Anxiety Disorder, Goes On

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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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• I have thought sometimes that the sanest people, the people who are just very balanced, very happy, are probably lower achieving than other people. My kind of irrationality happens to be fear or anxiety.

  Jon Ronson

  People, Kind, Sometimes

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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 think the general anxiety of the 1960s - '70s spawned our interest in the living dead. When people worry about the end of their world, they need a safe vessel for all their fears. Zombies provide that vessel because they're 'safe.

  Max Brooks

  Thinking, People, Worry

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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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• 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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