“Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition.”
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Marshall McLuhan
2 quotes“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...”
Balzac
2 quotes“Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.”
Søren Kierkegaard
1 quote“Whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate.”
Aesop
1 quote“A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.”
Joseph Conrad
1 quote“Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear”
Ursula K. LeGuin
1 quote“The only thing that makes life possible is permanent intolerable uncertainty not knowing what comes next.”
Alan Watts
1 quote“One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.”
Joyce Meyer
1 quote“I like to describe worry or anxiety as spending today trying to figure out tomorrow. Let's learn to use the time God has...”
W. H. Auden
1 quote“Now is the age of anxiety.”
Benjamin Disraeli
1 quote“Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure and generally create ourselves.”
Lao Tzu
1 quote“Too much thinking causes confusion and anxietybetter to stick with the simplicity of Tao”
Wendell Berry
1 quote“Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.”