“Earthly goods deceive the human heart into believing that they give it security and freedom from worry. But in truth, they are what cause anxiety.”
Others on Anxiety
Alain de Botton
3 quotes“There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect...”
Balzac
2 quotes“Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.”
Marshall McLuhan
2 quotes“Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today’s jobs with yesterday’s tools!”
Aesop
1 quote“A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.”
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.”
Benjamin Disraeli
1 quote“Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure and generally create ourselves.”
C.S. Lewis
1 quote“One of the drawbacks about adventures is that when you come to the most beautiful places you are often too anxious and h...”
Christopher Paolini
1 quote“The future will be what it will, and fretting about it will only make your fears more likely to come true.”
Epictetus
1 quote“Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems”
Gayle Forman
1 quote“One in a million cases; such comforting odds, except when you were the one”
Wendell Berry
1 quote“Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.”
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.”