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Anxiety Quotes
Naming the feeling is the first step.
These quotes speak honestly about the isolation and discomfort that anxiety can bring, whether from public attention or everyday pressure. For a more spiritual source of comfort, see our Prayers collection.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.
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As a kid, I was depressed and riddled with anxiety. The bottom dropped out when I was 19.
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Anxiety has afflicted me all my life.
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To grapple with and understand anxiety is, in some sense, to grapple with and understand the human condition.
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Many nights, I would begin the evening fueled by caffeine and nicotine, which I needed to propel me out of torpor and hopelessness - only to overshoot into quaking, quivering anxiety.
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Carly Simon abandoned the stage for seven years after collapsing from nerves before a concert in Pittsburgh in 1981. When she resumed performing, she would sometimes ask members of her band to spank her before she went onstage, to distract her from her anxiety.
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Most childhoods are full of anxiety, but that tends to get smoothed over, so you have a sense of nostalgia.
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The emergence of the Atomic Age brought the previously inchoate and 'free-floating' anxiety of many people into sharp focus.
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I think that whenever a nation feels itself to be at is zenith, it starts to feel a creeping sense of anxiety.
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The moment I started treating my social anxiety disorder, I started feeling better.
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Now that I have conquered social anxiety disorder, I find pleasure in fans approaching me.
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Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
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