Anxiety Quotes - Page 28

• When new technologies impose themselves on societies long habituated to older technologies, anxieties of all kinds result.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Technology, Long, Kind

  Marshall McLuhan (2014). “Media Research: Technology, Art and Communication”, p.125, Routledge

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• Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives. Cancerphobia taught us the fear of a polluting environment; now we have the fear of polluting people that AIDS anxiety inevitably communicates. Fear of the Communion cup, fear of surgery: fear of contaminated blood, whether Christ's blood or your neighbor's.

  Susan Sontag

  Taught Us, Blood, People

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• Education is the only interest worthy the deep, controlling anxiety of the thoughtful man.

  Wendell Phillips

  Education, Thoughtful, Men

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.246

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• Anxiety is the dizziness we experience when we recognize we hold the freedom and responsibility for our life choices. More than anyone, alcoholics have a very clear sense of this dizziness, especially when we were coming to realize our own powerlessness over alcohol and that we could act differently.

  Peg O'Connor

  Responsibility, Choices, Alcohol

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Finishing is torture... There's always some newly seen flaw. But the little glimpses of beauty between the anxiety make it worth it.

  Jacob Collins

  Finishing, Glimpse, Littles

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• The answer to deep anxiety is the deep adoration of God.

  Ann Voskamp

  Answers, Adoration

  Twitter post from Aug 15, 2016

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• With the coming of radio as a mass medium, suddenly the world changed. It became about, 'Can this leader project emotional connection through the way he speaks on the radio?' And the anxiety about whether he could do that, we've inherited.

  Tom Hooper

  Emotional, Leader, Connections

  "Filmmaker Tom Hooper". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. January 28, 2011.

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• The anxiety of fate is conquered by the self-affirmation of the individual as an infinitely significant microcosmic representation of the universe .

  Paul Tillich

  Fate, Self, Affirmation

  Paul Tillich (1968). “The Courage To Be”

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• I always had a weird thing with being the last person somewhere like a movie theater or a classroom. I get a weird sense of anxiety.

  Alona Tal

  Lasts, Classroom, Weird Things

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The technological landscape of the present day has enfranchised its own electorates - the inhabitants of the marketing zones in the consumer society, television audiences and news magazine readerships, who vote with money at the cash counter rather than with ballot paper at the polling boot. These huge and passive electorates are wide open to any opportunist using the psychological weaponry of fear and anxiety, elements that are carefully blanched out of the world of domestic products and consumer software.

  J. G. Ballard

  Marketing, News, Boots

  "A User's Guide to the Millennium". Book by J. G. Ballard, 1996.

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• Orientation in time, space, and status are the essentials of social existence, and the Balinese, although they make very strong spirits for ceremonial occasions, with a few startling exceptions resist alcohol, because if one drinks one loses one's orientation. Orientation is felt as a protection rather than as a strait jacket and its loss provokes extreme anxiety.

  Margaret Mead

  Strong, Loss, Space

  Gregory Bateson, Margaret Mead (1942). “Balinese Character: A Photographic Analysis”

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• The landscape, like Los Angeles itself, is transitional. Impermanence haunts the city, with its mushroom industries--the aircraft perpetually becoming obsolete, the oil which must one day be exhausted, the movies which fill America's theatres for six months and are forgotten. Many of its houses--especially the grander ones--have a curiously disturbing atmosphere, a kind of psychological dankness which smells of anxiety, overdrafts, uneasy lust, whisky, divorce and lies.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Lying, Divorce, Cities

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• Who is open without levity; generous without waste; secret without craft; humble without meanness; bold without insolence; cautious without anxiety; regular, yet not formal; mild, yet not timid; firm, yet not tyrannical - is made to pass the ordeal of honour, friendship, virtue.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Humble, Secret, Honor

  "Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. ; [One line from Juvenal]" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.

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• When one read's Kierkegaard's profound analyses of anxiety and despair or Nietzsche's amazingly acute insights into the dynamics of resentment and the guilt and hostility which accompany repressed emotional powers, one might pinch oneself to realize that one is reading works written in the last century and not some new contemporary psychological analysis.

  Rollo May

  Reading, Emotional, Profound

  Rollo May (2015). “The Discovery of Being”, p.53, W. W. Norton & Company

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• A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.

  Rollo May

  Stronger, Threat, Persons

  "Psychology and the Human Dilemma". Book by Rollo May, p. 51, 1967.

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• I have been for some time in Retirement, and shall not probably return again to public Life; yet my Anxiety for my Country, in these Times of Danger, makes me sometimes dabble a little in Politicks, and keep up a Correspondence with some Men upon the public Stage.

  George Mason

  Country, Retirement, Littles

  Letter to his son, George Mason, January 8, 1783.

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• Planning a wedding is hell. Things are said. Doors are slammed. Quarrels about the most inconsequential things--yellow tablecloths or white? hors d'oeuvres set out on tables or passed around on trays?--are often pitched at such a level that it seems the combatants may never recover from them. Much of the anxiety, of course, is tribal. It is wrenching to have to open the sacred circle to admit an outsider.

  Caitlin Flanagan

  Doors, Circles, Yellow

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• I would like to change everything, but obviously not everything. I've been incredibly fortunate. I guess everybody would do this, but I'd go back to my younger self and say, "Lighten up. Take it easy. Relax. Don't be so anxious about everything. Try to be in the day. Try to not have today stolen from you by anxiety about yesterday or tomorrow."

  Bill Nighy

  Self, Yesterday, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• Instead of fixating on the physical aspects of aging, it's good to contemplate the deeper source of our anxiety. That can be liberating.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Aging, Source, Aspect

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• We should be worrying about if you live in the city you're more likely to have anxiety or mood disorders and to be schizophrenic. More than the problems people have from social media.

  Nick Harkaway

  Media, Cities, People

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Any great artist is wrestling with their sadness and loneliness, their fears, anxieties and securities, and they're transfiguring those into complicated forms of expression that affect our hearts, minds and souls and remind us of who we are as human beings, the fragility of our human status and the inevitability of death.

  Cornel West

  Loneliness, Heart, Sadness

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Despite the staunchest, most venerable defenses, we can never completely subdue death anxiety: it is always there, lurking in some hidden ravine of the mind.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Death, Mind, Defense

  Irvin D. Yalom (2010). “Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death”, p.17, John Wiley & Sons

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• Even if the wealth and power be well distributed throughout a community, its members will not be happy unless they are inwardly so, and obviously where the distribution is bad, where the few have a vast superfluity and the many are consumed by anxiety or want, or where a few controllers can exercise their will over the many, society has failed, even though its total wealth and power be increased.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Wisdom, Exercise, Community

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• Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms. The drive for power is not uncommonly motivated by this dynamic. One's own fear and sense of limitation is avoided by enlarging oneself and one's sphere of control. There is some evidence, for example, that those who enter the death-related professions (soldiers, doctors, priests, and morticians) may in part be motivated by a need to obtain control over death anxiety.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Numbers, Doctors, Soldier

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• Anxiety prepares the organism badly for an ordeal which even under more favorable circumstances would not be an easy thing to bear.

  Henryk Sienkiewicz

  Bears, Easy, Circumstances

  Henryk Sienkiewicz (1897). “Without Dogma: A Novel of Modern Poland”

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