Anxiety Quotes

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Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.

Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.

Fear Truth Spirituality Consumerism Depression Civilization Loneliness Culture Anxiety Novelty Seeking

The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or for

The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.

Anxiety Regret

Her forehead was a maze of anxious little grooves, from a li

Her forehead was a maze of anxious little grooves, from a lifetime of wondering about whether everyone within range was OK.

Love Worry Anxiety

Life is like a sandwich!Birth as one slice,and death as the

Life is like a sandwich!Birth as one slice,and death as the other.What you put in-between the slices is up to you.Is your sandwich tasty or sour?Allan Rufus.org

Knowledge Depression Anxiety Enlightenment Knowing Art Of Dying Art Of Living Hang Man Know Thyself Knowing Oneself

She felt happy these days, yet there was always an undercurr

She felt happy these days, yet there was always an undercurrent of sadness just below the surface

Diane Chamberlain

Life Happiness Sad Motivational Inspirational Depression Sadness Happy Anxiety

There is nothing like suspense and anxiety for barricading a

There is nothing like suspense and anxiety for barricading a human's mind against the Enemy. He wants men to be concerned with what they do; our business is to keep them thinking about what will happen to them.

Focus Faith Perspective Anxiety Suspense Fears

We live only a few conscious decades, and we fret ourselves

We live only a few conscious decades, and we fret ourselves enough for several lifetimes.

Christopher Hitchens

Life Anxiety

The most important thing is not to think very much about one

The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge; but not fussily, not very anxiously. On no account to retaliate by going to the other extreme -- thinking too much.

Worry Thinking Anxiety Egotism

Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memo

Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.

Anxiety Distraction

The narrator, a time traveler from 2011, scoffs at the despo

The narrator, a time traveler from 2011, scoffs at the despondency caused by the Cuban Missile Crisis -- especially the drug and alcohol use of a resident of 1962 he supposedly cares about. Then he finds his compassion because he remembers he is the exception in being able to see beyond the immediate -- and foreboding -- horizon.

Prophecy Perspective Anxiety Compassion

The search for Nirvana, like the search for Utopia or the en

The search for Nirvana, like the search for Utopia or the end of history or the classless society, is ultimately a futile and dangerous one. It involves, if it does not necessitate, the sleep of reason. There is no escape from anxiety and struggle.

Christopher Hitchens

Society Reason Struggle Class Anxiety Irrationality Nirvana Utopia

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard the

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith. I don't agree at all. They are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the Passion of Christ

Christianity Anxiety

his face, though lined, bore few traces of anxiety. But, per

his face, though lined, bore few traces of anxiety. But, perhaps the confidential bachelor clerks in Tellson's Bank were principally occupied with the cares of other people; and perhaps second-hand cares, like second-hand clothes, come easily off and on.

Charles Dickens

Job Anxiety

Creating is living doubly. The groping, anxious quest of a P

Creating is living doubly. The groping, anxious quest of a Proust, his meticulous collecting of flowers, of wallpapers, and of anxieties, signifies nothing else.

Art Flowers Anxiety Creating Marcel Proust Wallpaper

There's no work so tirin' as danglin' about an' starin' an'

There's no work so tirin' as danglin' about an' starin' an' not rightly knowin' what you're goin' to do next; and keepin' your face i' smilin' order like a grocer o' market-day for fear people shouldna think you civil enough.

Anxiety Uncertainty Fatigue

Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when t

Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest becomes insufferable.

Rest Anxiety

I promise you nothing is as chaotic as it seems. Nothing is

I promise you nothing is as chaotic as it seems. Nothing is worth your health. Nothing is worth poisoning yourself into stress, anxiety, and fear.

Fear Health Motivational Inspirational Stress Anxiety Poison

He might have been encased in a thick glass bubble, so separ

He might have been encased in a thick glass bubble, so separate did he feel from his three dining companions. It was a sensation with which he was only too familiar, that of walking in a giant sphere of worry, enclosed by it, watching his own terrors roll by, obscuring the outside world.

Worry Anxiety

The suspense: the fearful, acute suspense: of standing idly

The suspense: the fearful, acute suspense: of standing idly by while the life of one we dearly love, is trembling in the balance; the racking thoughts that crowd upon the mind, and make the heart beat violently, and the breath come thick, by the force of the images they conjure up before it; the desperate anxiety to relieve the pain, or lessen the danger, which we have no power to alleviate; the sinking of soul and spirit, which the sad remembrance of our helplessness produces; what tortures can equal these; what reflections of endeavours can, in the full tide and fever of the time, allay them!

Charles Dickens

Anxiety Helplessness Loved Ones Sickness

Bodily haste and exertion usually leave our thoughts very mu

Bodily haste and exertion usually leave our thoughts very much at the mercy of our feelings and imagination.

Depression Emotions Anxiety Fatigue