“There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect...”

“Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's conc...”

“Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.”

“Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems”

“One in a million cases; such comforting odds, except when you were the one”

“There is no such thing as pure pleasure some anxiety always goes with it.”

“If things happen all the time you are never nervous. It is when they are not happening that you are nervous.”

“The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.”

“The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.”

“The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it's no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won't come.”

“Whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate.”

“Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear”