Anxiety Quotes

It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful.

Food can become such a point of anxiety - not because it's food, but just because you have anxiety. That's how eating disorders develop.

I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?

The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction.

Working moms commonly testify that they feel guilty when they are away from their children and guilty when they are not at their jobs. Devoted fathers certainly miss their children deeply, but it does not seem to be with the same gnawing, primal anxiety that often afflicts women.

I think the joy of wanting to direct is having that nervous anxiety knowing your film is about to be shown and you're sitting right there with everyone.

I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety.

There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

The anxiety of most parents in seeing their sons and daughters enlist does not lie only in the fear of the physical dangers they may encounter.

In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.

I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.

Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God.

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

Concentration is a fine antidote to anxiety.

That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.

It's sad, actually, because my anxiety keeps me from enjoying things as much as I should at this age.

I think it has other roots, has to do, in part, with a general anxiety in contemporary life... nuclear bombs, inequality of possibility and chance, inequality of goods allotted to us, a kind of general racist, unjust attitude that is pervasive.

Status anxiety definitely exists at a political level. Many Iraqis were annoyed with the US essentially for reasons of status: for not showing them respect, for humiliating them.

There's a period just before you start a movie when you start thinking, I don't know what in the world I'm going to do. It's free-floating anxiety. In my case, though, this is over by lunch the first day of shooting.

Kindness is the cause of all anxiety.

Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.

One in six people suffer depression or a chronic anxiety disorder. These are not the worried well but those in severe mental pain with conditions crippling enough to prevent them living normal lives.

My sense is that economic anxiety means electoral volatility.

Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing, They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety.

I think there's an anxiety in life where we automatically tend to look to the next thing or we're complaining about the past. Worrying is not going to make it happen or not happen.

The screenwriters I know share a few personality traits and one of them is anxiety.

We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.

I remember being onstage once when I didn't have fear: I got so scared I didn't have fear that it brought on an anxiety attack.

It was about this time that I began experiencing the beginnings of my battles with an anxiety disorder. We were touring a lot and there were some developing personal problems within the band.