D. A. Carson
Theologian
"The way to be anxious about nothing is to be prayerful about everything."
Anxious quotes
Anxious
84 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Rose Kennedy
Socialite
"Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety."
Boris Pasternak
Poet, Novelist
"As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth."
Scarlett Johansson
Actress
"I'm not anxious to starve myself. For me, it's not at all sexy to be ultra-thin."
Dalai Lama
Spiritual Leader
"You are so anxious about the future that you do not enjoy the present. You therefore do not live in the present or the future. You live as if you are never going to die, and then die having never really lived."
Explore further
Topics related to Anxious
Browse quotes that often appear alongside anxious — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Anxious quotes (page 1 of 5)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"God is more anxious to bestow his blessings on us than we are to receive them."
Read quote
15 likes
"The pressure to entertain, to sell ourselves, and never to be visibly anxious keeps ratcheting up."
Read quote
13 likes
"Whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate."
Read quote
12 likes
"Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future."
Read quote
9 likes
"I'm not anxious to be anywhere other than where I am right now."
Read quote
8 likes
"True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing."
Read quote
8 likes
"There is nothing about which I am more anxious than my country, and for its sake I am willing to die ten deaths, if that be possible."
Read quote
7 likes
"Seeing what the film becomes, out of your hands - you never know, you know? I'm always rather anxious. It's not like in theater when you are more in control. You're more - not a puppet, but you don't control it. You don't own it."
Read quote
7 likes
"Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security."
Read quote
7 likes
"Let anxious anticipation evolve into effective preparation"
Read quote
6 likes
"I had been anxious and depressed for years and suddenly I was deeply at peace."
Read quote
6 likes
"His religion at best is an anxious wish,-like that of Rabelais, a great Perhaps."
Read quote
6 likes
"Love passes quickly, and passes like a street Arab, anxious to mark his way with mischief."
Read quote
6 likes
"Wandering seemed no more than the happiness of an anxious man."
Read quote
5 likes
"This is not my phrase, but if you're stuck in the past, then you're depressed. If you're stuck in the future, then you're anxious."
Read quote
5 likes
"Life's too short for anxious score-keeping"
Read quote
4 likes
"I see a redness suddenly come Into the evening's anxious breast-- 'Tis the wound of love goes home!"
Read quote
3 likes
"The American people are both anxious for change. We're in a time of flux."
Read quote
3 likes
"Once you lose the weight, you're really anxious to eat healthy."
Read quote
3 likes
"I regard the whole of my life as having been lived in an anxious world."
Read quote
3 likes