anxiety quotes

• Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top. (Robert Burton) [men/anxiety/reach/top]
• Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. (Henry Ward Beecher) [take/anxiety/faith]
• Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top. (Robert Burton) [men/anxiety/reach/top]
• All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership. (John Kenneth Galbraith) [anxiety/people/time/essence]
• Stupidity is without anxiety. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [stupidity/anxiety]
• Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity (Chuck Jones) [anxiety/creativity]
• My conception of the audience is of a public each member of which is carrying about with him what he thinks is an anxiety, or a hope, or a preoccupation which is his alone and isolates him from mankind; and in this respect at least the function of a play is to reveal him to himself so that he may touch others by virtue of the revelation of his mutuality with them. If only for this reason I regard the theater as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone. (Arthur Miller) [anxiety/mankind/respect/virtue]
• If one considers how much reason every person has for anxiety and timid self-concealment, and how three-quarters of his energy and goodwill can be paralyzed and made unfruitful by it, one has to be very grateful to fashion, insofar as it sets that three-quarters free and communicates self-confidence and mutual cheerful agreeableness to those who know they are subject to its law. (Friedrich Nietzsche) [anxiety/goodwill/fashion/right]
• There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it. ( Ovid) [thing/pleasure/anxiety]
• Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety. ( Plato) [men/anxiety]
• Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all. (George Santayana) [anxiety/spirit/spirit/wisdom]
• Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the work-driven feel about not working when they are on vacation and supposed to be having fun. They have something to do that is like a friendly imitation of work: they can take pictures. (Susan Sontag) [anxiety/vacation/take]
• American energy is the energy of violence, of free-floating resentment and anxiety unleashed by chronic cultural dislocations which must be, for the most part, ferociously sublimated. This energy has mainly been sublimated into crude materialism and acquisitiveness. Into hectic philanthropy. Into benighted moral crusades, the most spectacular of which was Prohibition. Into an awesome talent for uglifying countryside and cities. Into the loquacity and torment of a minority of gadflies: artists, prophets, muckrakers, cranks, and nuts. And into self-punishing neuroses. But the naked violence keeps breaking through, throwing everything into question. (Susan Sontag) [anxiety/talent/cities/minority]
• I had generalized anxiety which is worse. (Billy Crystal) [anxiety]
• Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within. (David Duchovny) [anxiety/creativity]
• I just like the guy. He's a pal, ... It's a very strange situation where as a grown man, you start having separation anxiety with an imaginary character. It's worrisome because you know it's not normal but you can't stop yourself. (Johnny Depp) [strange/situation/anxiety/character]
• We had this thing called the Cotillion, which was a source of anxiety for me because I was shy and you were forced to ask girls to dance. (Kyle MacLachlan) [thing/source/anxiety/shy]
• [Question 2: Does he turn to the sports page first? He doesn't.] The word 'sports' has always given me anxiety, ... I was the guy, when they had the lineup in school, who wasn't picked. So I've got a problem with sports. (Nicolas Cage) [anxiety/school/problem]
• “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.” (Sylvester Stallone) [knowledge/pain/anxiety]
• I tell you, the difference for me is between being victimized, terrorized, numbed by reading about different disasters, or reducing the anxiety by getting up and doing something about it, at whatever level. (Ted Danson) [being/reading/anxiety]
• “Mum and dad were very much friends, and up to life. There was no anxiety for anything when I was growing up, they just taught me to be me.” (Kate Winslet) [life/anxiety]
• I remember having anxiety because I got the record deal, but I had to hold it together. (Natalie Imbruglia) [remember/anxiety]
• 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. (Vanessa Carlton) [food/point/anxiety/food]
• I am learning that the beliefs I have about my self cause me to make the decisions I make. I act out of fear, out of anxiety and uncertainty. (Wynonna Judd) [beliefs/fear/anxiety]
• “To be totally honest, if I could be thinner without it causing a lot of pain and anxiety in my life, I would be. But today the reality is my life is more important to me than my weight - and thank God for that.” (Courtney Thorne-Smith) [pain/anxiety/life/reality]
• “It's a whole different kind of anxiety. But the great thing about doing a theatre job is that once the ball starts rolling you just have to go with it, it's inexorable.” (Emily Watson) [anxiety/thing/theatre]
• A large part of the present anxiety to improve the education of girls and women is also due to the conviction that the political disabilities of women will not be maintained. (Millicent Fawcett) [present/anxiety/education/girls]
• “We thought it was wrongheaded and the amount of anxiety caused by this review was significant, ... We stopped the VA from going backward, but we still need to move forward.” (Barack Obama) [amount/anxiety]
• “We thought it was wrongheaded and the amount of anxiety caused by this review was significant. We stopped the VA from going backward, but we still need to move forward.” (Barack Obama) [amount/anxiety]
• My mother's suicide attempts were a way to release anxiety and get attention. Some of the attempts were drug reactions she didn't even remember later on. (Lorna Luft) [suicide/anxiety/attention/remember]

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