Anxiety Quotes

"I'm scared every day of my life" "To put is still more plainly: the desire for security and the feeling of insecurity are the same thing. To hold your breath is to lose your breath. A society based on the quest for security is nothing but a breath retention contest in which everyone is as taut as a drum and as purple as a beet" "The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one" "As a rule, men worry more about what they can’t see than about what they can" "The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep." "The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety." "To overcome the anxieties and depressions of contemporary life, individuals must become independent of the social environment to the degree that they no longer respond exclusively in terms of its rewards and punishments" "Everyone, deep in their hearts, is waiting for the end of the world to come." "I don't think anyone has a clue about what they're doing" "All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony. Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace." "I'm not comfortable being around too many people." "Any irrational fears? I have a fear of unfinished sentences" "I tend to overthink things and that makes me do complicated stuff" "Worrying is like praying for something that you don't want to happen" "After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn’t bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it’s a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield; it’s sleepless nights, asking ourselves all the time if we’re doing the right thing." "If we subject the content of the dream to analysis, we become aware that the dream fear is no more justified by the dream content than the fear in a phobia is justified by the idea upon which the phobia depends." "It’s hard for me to grasp the concept of somebody being nervous when I’m talking to them."