Anxiety Quotes · Page 7

Find calm in the storm with anxiety quotes that acknowledge your struggle and guide you toward peace. These words offer understanding and tools to quiet a racing mind.

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“Young people of every continent, do not be afraid to be the saints of the new millennium!”

— Pope John Paul II

“Through want of heart fear seizes on my tongue.”

— Aeschylus

“Who knows what true loneliness is — not the conventional word, but the naked terror?”

— Joseph Conrad

“We have suffered, and we are not afraid to suffer in order to win our cause.”

— César Chávez

“Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the…”

— César Chávez

“Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude is, in one sense, overcome.”

— George Santayana

“The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.”

— George Eliot

“Anxiety is the unwillingness to play even when you know the odds are for you.”

— Thomas Szasz

“Neither fear your death's day nor long for it.”

— Martial

“He was not so anxious to prove himself right, as to be so.”

— Anthony Trollope

“Life is first boredom, then fear.”

— Philip Larkin

“Perfect love casteth out fear, the Bible says; but, to speak it reverently, so does perfect hate.”

— John Buchan

“He who shall teach the child to doubt / The rotting grave shall ne'er get out.”

— William Blake

“For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we still are just able to endure, and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“So hopeless is the world without; The world within I doubly prize; Thy world, where guile, and hate, and doubt, And cold suspicion never rise; Where thou, and I, and Liberty, Have…”

— Emily Brontë

“Some always allege that excessive freedom ultimately destroys itself; while others fear on the contrary that authority, which by its nature always grows, will finally degenerate…”

— Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

“The fear o' hell 's a hangman's whip To haud the wretch in order; But where ye feel your honour grip, Let that aye be your border.”

— Robert Burns

“With cities, it is as with dreams: everything imaginable can be dreamed, but even the most unexpected dream is a rebus that conceals a desire or, its reverse, a fear.”

— Italo Calvino

“For right is right, since God is God; And right the day must win; To doubt would be disloyalty, To falter would be sin.”

— Frederick William Faber

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“I think you have to be able to accept that you can't control everything.”

— Taylor Swift

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