Anxiety Quotes - Page 25

• Living was no longer the grief behind him, but the anxiety ahead.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Grief, Behinds

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2011). “The Yearling”, p.557, Simon and Schuster

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• Every day His servants are dying modestly and peacefully--not a word of victory on their lips; but Christ's deep triumph in their hearts--watching the slow progress of their own decay, and yet so far emancipated from personal anxiety that they are still able to think and plan for others, not knowing that they are doing any great thing. They die, and the world hears nothing of them; and yet theirs was the completest victory. They came to the battle field, the field to which they had been looking forward all their lives, and the enemy was not to be found. There was no foe to fight with.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Death, Heart, Fighting

  Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.585

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• Covetousness is ever attended with solicitude and anxiety.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Solicitude, Covetousness

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1809). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.373

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• Economics anxiety may be even more common than the often identified 'math anxiety,' for unlike math, which has its personal uses, economics is seen as a mysterious set of forces manipulated from above.

  Gloria Steinem

  Math, Use, May

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender”, p.355, Open Road Media

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• As a concept [androgyny] raise[s] anxiety levels by conjuring up a conformist, unisex vision, the very opposite of the individuality and uniqueness that feminism actually has in mind.

  Gloria Steinem

  Opposites, Individuality, Mind

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• 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

  Friendship, Grief, Adversity

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• Men, in whatever anxiety they may be, if they are men, sometimes indulge in relaxation.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Indulge In, Relaxation

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• In the condition of men, it frequently happens that grief and anxiety lie hid under the golden robes of prosperity; and the gloom of calamity is cheered by secret radiations of hope and comfort; as in the works of nature, the bog is sometimes covered with flowers, and the mine concealed in the barren crags.

  Samuel Johnson

  Lying, Flower, Grief

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: with Murphy's essay”, p.33

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• Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age. In writing Dialogues in Limbo, The Last Puritan, and now all these descriptions of the friends of my youth and the young friends of my middle age, I have drunk the pleasure of life more pure, more joyful than it ever was when mingled with all the hidden anxieties and little annoyances of actual living. Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure.

  George Santayana

  Writing, Adventure, Young Friends

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• The statesman, lawyer, merchant, man of trade
  Pants for the refuge of some rural shade,
  Where all his long anxieties forgot
  Amid the charms of a sequester'd spot,
  Or recollected only to gild o'er
  And add a smile to what was sweet before,
  He may possess the joys he thinks he sees,
  Lay his old age upon the lap of ease,
  Improve the remnant of his wasted span.
  And having lived a trifler, die a man.

  William Cowper

  Sweet, Retirement, Thinking

  William Cowper (1847). “Poems, with a memoir of the author”, p.146

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• Popular glory is a perfect coquette; her lovers must toil, feel every inquietude, indulge every caprice, and perhaps at last be jilted into the bargain. True glory, on the other hand, resembles a woman of sense; her admirers must play no tricks. They feel no great anxiety, for they are sure in the end of being rewarded in proportion to their merit.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Hands, Play, Perfect

  Oliver Goldsmith (1856). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Comprising His Poems, Comedies, Essays, and Vicar of Wakefield”, p.193

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• Wonder is a bulky emotion. When you let it fill your heart and mind, there isn't room for anxiety, distress or anything else.

  Diane Ackerman

  Heart, Mind, Rooms

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• In an underdeveloped society, the first anxiety is of infant mortality. In an advanced one it is to keep alive the aged.

  Indira Gandhi

  Alive, Firsts, Mortality

  Indira Gandhi (1984). “Selected speeches and writings of Indira Gandhi, September 1972-October 30, 1984”

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• People say when you're in love, you don't need etiquette. Well, you need it then more than anything. Or they say, "At home I can just be myself." What they mean is they can be their worst selves... They always mean they will save all their anxiety about how to behave for somebody like the head waiter of a restaurant, someone they'll never see again.

  Judith Martin

  Love You, Home, Mean

  "Polite Company". Interview with Hara Estroff Marano, www.psychologytoday.com. March 1, 1998.

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• Show me a character totally without anxieties and I will show you a boring book.

  Margaret Atwood

  Book, Character, Boring

  Margaret Atwood (1990). “Margaret Atwood: Conversations”, Princeton, N.J. : Ontario Review Press

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• Curiosity is the most superficial of all the affections; it changes its object perpetually; it has an appetite which is very sharp, but very easily satisfied, and it has always an appearance of giddiness, restlessness and anxiety.

  Edmund Burke

  Curiosity, Affection, Appearance

  Edmund Burke (1824). “A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful”, p.24

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• I am never so calm as after I have written. And the next morning I will feel the familiar anxiety and I will have to begin the process all over again.

  Erica Jong

  Morning, Next, Calm

  Erica Jong (2007). “Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life”, p.30, Penguin

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• Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.

  Margaret Mead

  Second Chance, Grandparent, Parenthood

  Margaret Mead (1965). “Family”

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• If we could make up our minds to spare our friends all details of ill health, of money losses, of domestic annoyances, of altercations, of committee work, of grievances, provocations, and anxieties, we should sin less against the world's good-humor. It may not be given us to add to the treasury of mirth; but there is considerable merit in not robbing it.

  Agnes Repplier

  Loss, Ill Health, Mind

  Agnes Repplier (1904). “Compromises”

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• any writer is inevitably going to work with his own anxieties and desires. If the book is any good it has got to have in it the fire of a personal unconscious mind.

  Iris Murdoch

  Book, Fire, Mind

  Iris Murdoch (2003). “From a Tiny Corner in the House of Fiction: Conversations with Iris Murdoch”, p.127, Univ of South Carolina Press

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• Right there is the usefulness of migraine, there in that imposed yoga, the concentration on the pain. For when the pain recedes, ten or twelve hours later, everything goes with it, all the hidden resentments, all the vain anxieties. The migraine has acted as a circuit breaker, and the fuses have emerged intact. There is a pleasant convalescent euphoria.

  Joan Didion

  Pain, Yoga, Twelve

  Joan Didion (2013). “The White Album”, p.115, Zola Books

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• ... the effort, diligence, and care required in practicing must be quickly suspended when pressure coming from anxiety or a desire for fast results causes them to degenerate.

  Paul Caponigro

  Effort, Desire, Care

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• ... what the artist or creative scientist feels is not anxiety or fear; it is joy. I use the word in contrast to happiness or pleasure. The artist, at the moment of creating, does not experience gratification or satisfaction... Rather, it is joy, joy defined as the emotion that goes with heightened consciousness, the mood that accompanies the experience of actualizing one's own potentialities.

  Rollo May

  Creativity, Artist, Creating

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.45, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Happiness is such an incredible advantage in our life. When the human brain is positive, our intelligence rises, we stop diverting resources to think about anxiety.

  Shawn Achor

  Thinking, Brain, Incredibles

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• Einstein was always looking for a unifying principle for the universe. I think anxiety about hair is the unifying principle.

  Diane Sawyer

  Thinking, Hair, Principles

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