Anxiety Quotes

"We suffer more often in imagination than in reality."

"The only way out is through."

"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional."

"Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom."

"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom."

"Today I escaped anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions — not outside."

"No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen."

"A great many worries are diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matter which is causing the anxiety."

"Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you."

"Ask yourself, what is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst."

"If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it's not fixable, then there is no help in worrying."

"She had a perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day."

"Anxiety is a continuous stream of thought about the future."

"Anxiety is a notification that we are vulnerable."

"Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all."

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

"Stop checking your phone. Stop checking the news. Stop checking the temperature. Stop checking your anxiety level. Just stop checking."

"We are not anxious because of the future, but because we want to control it."

"I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo."

"Anxiety is extremely contagious, but so is calm."

"Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition."

"Anxiety is experiencing failure in advance."

"You are afraid to surrender because you don't want to lose control. But you never had control; all you had was anxiety."

"Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength."

"Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems."

"Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth."

"My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened."

"Anxiety is the reaction to a threat to some value that the individual holds essential to his existence as a personality."

"Trying to capture the future for security is a trap. The only reality is the present moment; clutching at certainty only creates the anxiety you wish to avoid."

"Anxiety is the gap between the now and the then. When you live completely in the present moment, there is no room for fear of the future."