Anxiety Quotes

The more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.

Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.

The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.

What anxiety means is it’s as though the world is knocking at your door, and you need to create, you need to make something, you need to do something. I think anxiety, for people who have found their own heart and their own souls, for them it is a stimulus toward creativity, toward courage. It’s what makes us human beings.

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

The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.

Whatever solace the Christian faith could give was balanced by the anxiety it generated.

To be in harmony with the wholeness of things is not to have anxiety over imperfections.

It is well to remind ourselves that anxiety signifies a conflict, and so long as a conflict is going on, a constructive solution is possible.

I pass for a hypersensitive, reclusive neurotic, which I may well be, but I hope the year won’t come when my anxieties and fatigue will destroy my love of this life, of all the things that inspire me–a line of music, a face in a Vermeer portrait, a character in an opera, or a model born in Harlem.