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

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

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“The future will be what it will, and fretting about it will only make your fears more likely to come true.”

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

1 quote

“Earthly goods deceive the human heart into believing that they give it security and freedom from worry. But in truth, th...”

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.”