The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.
Anxiety
Billings, Josh
1815-1885 American Humorist Lecturer
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
Anxiety
Bradley, Francis H.
1846-1924 British Philosopher
Suspense is worst than disappointment.
Anxiety
Burns, Robert
1759-1796 Scottish Poet
We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out another very often.
Anxiety
Churchill, Winston
1874-1965 British Statesman Prime Minister
God never built a Christian strong enough to carry today’s duties and tomorrow’s anxieties piled on the top of them.
Anxiety
Cuyler, Theodore L.
1822-1909 American Pastor Author
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is, with thoughts of what may be.
Anxiety
Dryden, John
1631-1700 British Poet Dramatist Critic
Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. In a world where everything is doubtful, and where we may be disappointed, and be blessed in disappointment, why this restless stir and commotion of mind? Can it alter the cause, or unravel the mystery of human events?
Anxiety
Edwards, Tryon
1809-1894 American Theologian
Some of your grief you have cured, and lived to survive; but what torments of pain have you endured that haven’t as yet arrived.
Anxiety
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
Anxiety
Franklin, Benjamin
1706-1790 American Scientist Publisher Diplomat
Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
Anxiety
Johnson, Ben
1600-British Clergyman Poet
Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity
Anxiety
Jones, Chuck
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Anxiety
Kierkegaard, Soren
1813-1855 Danish Philosopher Writer
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that’s your nature, but don’t lend it to your neighbors.
Anxiety
Kipling, Rudyard
1865-1936 British Author of Prose Verse
The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.
Anxiety
Lowell, James Russell
1819-1891 American Poet Critic Editor
There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Anxiety
Ovid
BC 43-18 AD Roman Poet
Love is full of anxious fears.
Anxiety
Ovid
BC 43-18 AD Roman Poet
Who’s not sat tense before his own heart’s curtain.
Anxiety
Rilke, Rainer Maria
1875-1926 German Poet
Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.
Anxiety
Roche, Arthur Somers
Anxiety about the future never profits; we feel no evil until it comes, and when we feel it, no counsel helps; wisdom is either too early or too late.
Anxiety
Ruckett
The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.
Anxiety
Seneca
4 BC � 65 AD Spanish-born Roman Statesman philosopher
There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.
Anxiety
Seneca
4 BC � 65 AD Spanish-born Roman Statesman philosopher
Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.
Anxiety
Smith, Frank
American Author Trainer
It has been said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only empties today of its strength.
Anxiety
Spurgeon, Charles Haddon
1834-1892 British Baptist Preacher
Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds.
Anxiety
Tennyson, Lord Alfred
1809-1892 British Poet
If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. nothing in the paper today , we sigh.
Anxiety
Valery, Paul
1871-1945 French Poet Essayist
The suspense is terrible, I hope it will last.
Anxiety
Wilde, Oscar
1856-1900 British Author Wit