Quotes about Anxiety

Now anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity. It is the fruit of unanswered questions. But questions cannot go unanswered unless they first be asked. And there is a far worse anxiety, a far worse insecurity, which comes from being afraid to ask the right questions — because they might turn out to have no answer. One of the moral diseases we communicate to one another in society comes from huddling together in the pale light of an insufficient answer to a question we are afraid to ask.

Silence is not broken by speech, but by the anxiety to be heard.

When a hideous man becomes a father And a son is born to him In the middle of the night He trembles and lights a lamp And runs to look in anguish On that child's face To see whom he resembles.

No one ever told me grief felt so much like fear.

Worries, he'd learned, are like rabbits: they compound in the dark.

Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear.

Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics.

When fear is excessive it can make many a man despair.

The root of war is fear.

What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?

Indecision crystallizes into DOUBT, the two blend and become FEAR!

Kill the habit of worry, in all its forms, by reaching a general, blanket decision that nothing which life has to offer is worth the price of worry.