Anxiety
Quotes on Anxiety
But Jesus, when you don’t have any money, the problem is food, When you have money, it’s sex. When you have both, it’s health, you worry about getting ruptured or something. If everything is simply jake then you’re frightened of death.
J. P. Donleavy (b. 1926) American author
When you suffer an attack of nerves you’re being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system?
Russell Hoban (b. 1925) British author
Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due.
W. R. Inge (1860-1954)
Dean of St. Paul’s, London Women like to sit down with trouble as if it were knitting.
Ellen Glasgow (1874-1945) American novelist
My apprehensions come in crowds; I dread the rustling of the grass; The very shadows of the clouds Have power to shake me as they pass: I question things and do not find One that will answer to my mind; And all the world appears unkind.
William Wordsworth (1770-1850) English poet
Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.
Germaine Greer (b. 1939) Australian feminist writer
I’ve never met a healthy person who worried much about his health, or a good person who worried about his soul.
J. B. S. Haldane (1892-1964) British scientist
