Anxiety Quotes — Page 27

Linguist, Philosopher, Activist

“There was great anxiety about Russian intervention in the recent German elections, perhaps contributing to the frightening surge of support for the right-wing nationalist, if not neo-fascist, "Alternative for Germany".”

Support Anxiety Election

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Leonard Cohen

Singer-Songwriter

“Stunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old and full of grief, but still not suffering.”

Suffering Grief Anxiety

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Mark Twain

Writer, Humorist

“Braveness is resistance to concern, mastery of panic - not absense of anxiety.”

Anxiety Mastery

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Philosopher, Writer, Composer

“Generally we obtain very surely and very speedily what we are not too anxious to obtain.”

Anxiety Anxious

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James Scott

Artist

“[Rumors are a] vehicle for anxieties and aspirations that may not be openly expressed.”

May Anxiety Rumor

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Henry David Thoreau

Writer, Philosopher

“I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion. I would rather ride on earth in an ox cart, with a free circulation, than go to heaven in the fancy car of an excursion train and breathe a malaria all the way.”

Heaven Anxiety Fancy Cars

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Henry David Thoreau

Writer, Philosopher

“The incessant anxiety and strain of some is a well-nigh incurable form of disease. We are made to exaggerate the importance of what we do; and yet how much is not done by us!”

Done Anxiety Disease

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Henry David Thoreau

Writer, Philosopher

“Perhaps anxious politicians may prove that only seventeen white men and five negroes were concerned in the late enterprise; but their very anxiety to prove this might suggest to themselves that all is not told. Why do they still dodge the truth? They are so anxious because of a dim consciousness of the fact, which they do not distinctly face, that at least a million of the free inhabitants of the United States would have rejoiced if it had succeeded. They at most only criticise the tactics.”

Men White Anxiety

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

Novelist, Philosopher

“Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born.”

Men Hands Anxiety

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Jane Austen

Novelist

“It was not in her nature, however, to increase her vexations by dwelling on them. She was confident of having performed her duty, and to fret over unavoidable evils, or augment them by anxiety, was not part of her disposition.”

Evil Anxiety Dwelling

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Jiddu Krishnamurti

Philosopher, Speaker

“We need tremendous energy to bring about a psychological change in ourselves as human beings, because we have lived far too long in a world of make-belief, in a world of brutality, violence, despair, anxiety. To live humanly, sanely, one has to change.”

Long Anxiety Despair

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Joss Stone

Singer-songwriter

“There are people in England that claim benefits because they are too nervous to work, so they claim their benefits for anxiety and never have to go out side there free home.”

People Home Anxiety

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