Quotes about Anxiety
The unbearableness of the future is easier to face than that of the present if only because human foresight is much more destructive than anything that the future can bring about.
— Joseph Brodsky
Fear is the foundation of safety.
— Tertullian
She felt that she was being measured and found wanting.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Don't be afraid to be afraid.
— Madeleine L'Engle
It is the fate of those who toil at the lower employments of life, to be rather driven by the fear of evil, than attracted by the prospect of good;
— Samuel Johnson
The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.
— John Maxwell
Again, if we have any anxiety about our own salvation, we ought to make no peace nor truce with him who is continually laying schemes for its destruction. But such is the character given to Satan in the third chapter of Genesis, where he is seen seducing man from his allegiance to God, that he may both deprive God of his due honour, and plunge man headlong in destruction.
— John Calvin
Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord," (Psalm 27:14). He accuses himself of timidity, and repeating the same thing twice, confesses that he is ever and anon exposed to agitation. Still he is not only dissatisfied with himself for so feeling, but earnestly labors to correct it.
— John Calvin
Worry is to joy what a Hoover vacuum cleaner is to dirt: might as well attach your heart to a happiness-sucker and flip the switch.
— Max Lucado
What you hope for, you also fear.
— Alice Walker
The animal lacks both anxiety and hope because its consciousness is restricted to what is clearly evident and thus to the present moment: the animal is the present incarnate.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
A crust in comfort is better than a feast in fear.
— Aesop