25 Quotes on Anxiety, and What We Can Do About It

1. “Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”
? Søren Kierkegaard, The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Orienting Deliberation on the Dogmatic Issue of Hereditary Sin
2. “Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.”
? Anaïs Nin
3. “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. Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony.”
? Paulo Coelho, The Witch Of Portobello
4. “To hear the phrase “our only hope” always makes one anxious, because it means that if the only hope doesn’t work, there is nothing left.”
? Lemony Snicket, The Blank Book
5. “Worrying is carrying tomorrow’s load with today’s strength- carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn’t empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”
? Corrie ten Boom
6. “If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.”
? Amit Ray, Om Chanting and Meditation
7. “The more you pray, the less you’ll panic. The more you worship, the less you worry. You’ll feel more patient and less pressured.”
? Rick Warren, The Purpose of Christmas
8. “It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase.”
? David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
9. “Our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strengths.”
? Charles Haddon Spurgeon
10. “To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one’s self…. And to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of one’s self.”
? Søren Kierkegaard
11. “Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems”
? Epictetus
12. “Life is ten percent what you experience and ninety percent how you respond to it.”
? Dorothy M. Neddermeyer
13. “Anxiety’s like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn’t get you very far.”
? Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home
14. “I’ve spent most of my life and most of my friendships holding my breath and hoping that when people get close enough they won’t leave, and fearing that it’s a matter of time before they figure me out and go.”
? Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way
15. “Understanding the difference between healthy striving and perfectionism is critical to laying down the shield and picking up your life. Research shows that perfectionism hampers success. In fact, it’s often the path to depression, anxiety, addiction, and life paralysis.”
? Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You’re Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
16. “Do not let your difficulties fill you with anxiety, after all it is only in the darkest nights that stars shine more brightly.”
? Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S
17. “Life is like a game of chess.
To win you have to make a move.
Knowing which move to make comes with IN-SIGHT
and knowledge, and by learning the lessons that are
acculated along the way.