“Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.”
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Anxious Quotes — page 26 of 107
“Perhaps to lose a sense of where you are implies the danger of losing a sense of who you are.”
“When people believe that every move they make is going to affect their compensation, they tend to get risk averse.”
“I really haven't made up my mind yet. A lot of people have encouraged me to consider running, and others have cautioned against it, saying it's a good way to ruin your life.”
“Anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity.”
“People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.”
“I like the performing part, it gives me a huge rush but it still makes me nervous. Being in front of large crowds is intimidating to me and I feel myself withdrawing.”
“January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead.”
“It's really nice meeting people after a concert. Still, it's very weird to be at the center of a group of 30 people all listening to what you're saying. When that group turns into 300 people, it goes on from weird. Some people revel in it, and I don't.”
“Sedentary people are apt to have sluggish minds. A sluggish mind is apt to be reflected in flabbiness of body and in a dullness of expression that invites no interest and gets none.”
“Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted. Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution.”
“I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.”
“Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom, sharpen the sensitivity and assure the presence of tension that is necessary to preserve human existence.”
“It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.”
“The fates have informed me that your examination in June will concern the Orb, and I am anxious to give you sufficient practice. Hermione snorted. "Well honestly... 'the fates have informed her'... Who sets the exam? She does!”
“I am very frustrated by fear of imagination, I don’t think that’s healthy.”
“I deal with stress in two ways because there are two kinds of stress. There's stress that you can take care of and there's stress that you can't. The first one, I take care of it as fast as possible, because putting it off always makes it worse. Things that I can't fix? I think about the fact that I can't fix them. I think about why I can't fix them and I come to terms with the fact that this is a problem that I'm not going to overcome and that the world is not a wish granting factory.”
“By what sort of experience are we led to the conviction that spirit exists? On the whole, by searching, painful experience. The rose Religion grows on a thorn-bush, and we must not be afraid to have our fingers lacerated by the thorns if we would pluck the rose.”
“Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.”
“You know sometimes when you're in a really bad mood and you're not sure why? That's how I get sometimes.”