“Though it may feel otherwise, enjoying life is no more dangerous than apprehending it with continuous anxiety and gloom.”
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Marshall McLuhan
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Balzac
2 quotes“Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.”
Gayle Forman
1 quote“One in a million cases; such comforting odds, except when you were the one”
Ovid
1 quote“There is no such thing as pure pleasure some anxiety always goes with it.”
Gertrude Stein
1 quote“If things happen all the time you are never nervous. It is when they are not happening that you are nervous.”
Seneca
1 quote“The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.”
Sigmund Freud
1 quote“The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
1 quote“The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it's no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won't come.”
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.”