Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Tillich

The basic anxiety, the anxiety of a finite being about the threat of non-being, cannot be eliminated. It belongs to existence itself.

Paul Emsley

I'm always worried about the sitters - are they cold, are they hot, are they comfortable?

Matt Groening

Anxiety and hostility seem to be a great part of good and bad humor. Examining humor too closely does seem to destroy it.

Martha Beck

Anything you're trying to will is focused on the future; it's always associated with some sort of anxiety that makes the present moment somewhat uncomfortable.

Nelson DeMille

Panic---a deep abiding, free-floating anxiety, often without any reason or logical basis.

Nhat Hanh

Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.

Martin Heidegger

If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

I'd seen too many troubling things to be easy in my mind. I knew too much and not enough. I'd better go out, I said to myself, I'd better go out again.

Michael Schudson

Buy me and you will overcome the anxieties I have just reminded you of

Mark Twain

Braveness is resistance to concern, mastery of panic - not absense of anxiety.

R. C. Sproul

The only cure for anxiety is to get down on our knees.

Oliver Goldsmith

Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes.

For them to be here today was very important. I think there can always be anxiety that your head coach is going to leave and I'm glad we're able to wrap this up and get it off their minds.

Irvin D. Yalom

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

Irvin D. Yalom

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

Keith Olbermann

Anything that prevents you from taking an action or actions that might reasonably dispel legitimate anxieties. Fear is what paralyzes you.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Anybody who's had to contend with mental illness - whether it's depression, bipolar illness or severe anxiety, whatever - actually has a fair amount of resilience in the sense that they've had to deal with suffering already, personal suffering.

Ask the local doctors around what kind of anxiety level farmers and their wives and their children are under.

As said by Sigmund Freud, if anxiety is damned up libido then, peace is nothing but a transformed libido.

James Grant

As much anxiety as we might extend over the victims of a rising funds rate, we ought to also spare a thought for the consequences of rates having been here in the first place,

Allow love to fill the places where anxiety now resides.

Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore

There is always anxiety before a competition and it was no different for me today. It was only in the third round, with about 40 targets left, that I realised I could match the world record score.

Scott Stossel

Generally speaking, the anxiety will pass, which is easy for me to say when I'm not in the middle of an anxiety attack. When you're in the throes of one, it's hard to feel anything other than utter misery and terror.

Scott Stossel

Anxiety has afflicted me all my life.

Seth Godin

More time [to decide] without more information just creates anxiety, not insight.

Seth Godin

I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.

Toks Olagundoye

You're able to do more when you're not clouded with wasted anxiety.

Tito Vilanova

You should never get nervous about anything. What today seems important tomorrow isn't so any more.

Rajneesh

Anxiety comes into existence only when we become identified with small things. And they all pass.

Rajneesh

Your desires are immense, almost infinite. Because of your desires life becomes a competition, and wherever there is competition, there is anxiety and angst; and at the end everybody is aware deep down there is death.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Notwithstanding all the care and anxiety of the persons who frame Acts of Parliament to guard against every event, it frequently turns out that certain cases were not foreseen.

Nigella Lawson

At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Economic life should be definancialised. We should learn not to use markets as storehouses of value: they do not harbour the certainties that normal citizens require. Citizens should experience anxiety about their own businesses (which they control), not their investments (which they do not control).