Home / Topics / Anxiety Quotes

Anxiety Quotes

Browse 3343 quotes about Anxiety.

Anxiety Quotes

“The landscape, like Los Angeles itself, is transitional. Impermanence haunts the city, with its mushroom industries--the aircraft perpetually becoming obsolete, the oil which must one day be exhausted, the movies which fill America's theatres for six months and are forgotten. Many of its houses--especially the grander ones--have a curiously disturbing atmosphere, a kind of psychological dankness which smells of anxiety, overdrafts, uneasy lust, whisky, divorce and lies.”

“The Miss America contest isthe most perfectly rendered theater in our culture, for it so perfectly captures what we yearn for: a low-class ritual, a polished restatement of vulgarity, that wants to open the door to high-class respectability by way of plain middle-class anxiety and ambition.”

Way Want America Culture Class Doors Middle Missing Anxiety Ambition Lows Theater Entertainment Middle Class Ritual Capture Contests Polished Vulgarity Respectability Miss America High Class

Author:Gerald Early

“At one of the largest advertising agencies in America psychologists on the staff are probing sample humans in an attempt to find how to identify, and beam messages to, people of high anxiety, body consciousness, hostility, passiveness, and so on.”

People Humans Body America Consciousness Anxiety Messages Advertising Agency Staff Hostility Psychologist Beam Sample Advertising Agencies Probing Passiveness High Anxiety

Book:The Hidden Persuaders

Source: The Hidden Persuaders

“...Poverty in America today leads not only to anxiety, unhappiness, discomfort and a lack of material goods. It leads to death. Poverty in America today is a death sentence for tens and tens of thousands of our people.”

People Today America Poverty Materials Anxiety Sentences Goods Unhappiness Discomfort America Today Death Sentence Poverty In America

Author:Bernie Sanders

“The biggest anxiety is just about America's role in the world. People are feeling very unsafe. They really are. They're just wondering whether, anything can be done to try to stabilize the world a little bit.”

People World Trying Littles Done Feelings America Bits Wonder Roles Anxiety Little Bit Unsafe

Author:Chris Christie

“I am not taking a position on any policy, but I do think there is a growing sense of anxiety and even anger in America over the feeling that the game is rigged. And I never had that feeling when I was growing up. Never.”

Thinking Feelings America Games Growing Up Growing Policy Position Anxiety Rigged

Author:Hillary Clinton

“My main concern is with the anxiety that has settled upon America.”

America Anxiety Concern

Author:Max Lucado

“Contemporary culture in Pakistan, just like in America, is continuously hitting us with scary stuff. And so we are utterly anxious. I think that it's very important to resist that anxiety, to think of ways of resisting the constant inflow of negative feelings, not to become depoliticized as a result but to actually work actively to bring into being an optimistic future.”

Thinking Way Important Feelings America Culture Stuff Results Anxiety Negative Constant Scary Contemporary Optimistic Anxious Hitting Pakistan Resisting Negative Feelings Scary Stuff

Author:Mohsin Hamid

“America had shifted from what influential cultural historian Warren Susman called a culture of character to a culture of personality, and opened up a Pandora's box of personal anxieties of which we would never recover.”

Character America Culture Personality Anxiety Boxes Historian Influential Pandora Pandora's Box

Author:Susan Cain

“FOOD is the most widely abused anti-anxiety drug in America, and EXERCISE is the most potent yet underutilized antidepressant.”

America Food Exercise Drug Anxiety Abuse Fitness Monday Antidepressants

Author:Bill Phillips

“Racism as a form of skin worship, and as a sickness and a pathological anxiety for America, is so great, until the poor whites -- rather than fighting for jobs or education -- fight to remain pink and fight to remain white. And therefore they cannot see an alliance with people that they feel to be inherently inferior.”

People Feels Jobs America Form Fighting White Poor Anxiety Worship Racism Skins Sickness Inferiors Alliances Racism In America Black Racism White Racism

Author:Jesse Jackson

“The biggest big business in America is not steel, automobiles, or television. It is the manufacture, refinement and distribution of anxiety.”

Bigs America Television Anxiety Steel Distribution Automobile Refinement Big Business

Book:This is Eric Sevareid

Source: This is Eric Sevareid

“I oppose the war in Vietnam because I love America. I speak out against it not in anger but with anxiety and sorrow in my heart, and above all with a passionate desire to see our beloved country stand as a moral example of the world.”

Source: In a Single Garment of Destiny

“It remains an astonishing, disturbing fact that in America - a nation where nearly every new drug is subjected to rigorous scrutiny as a potential carcinogen, and even the bare hint of a substance's link to cancer ignites a firestorm of public hysteria and media anxiety - one of the most potent and common carcinogens known to humans can be freely bought and sold at every corner store for a few dollars.”

Humans Facts America Nations Common Known Media Drug Anxiety Remains Dollars Cancer Corners Stores Substance Links Disturbing Astonishing Hints Scrutiny Hysteria Ignite

Author:Siddhartha Mukherjee

“It came home to me indelibly that I was never going to change anything in America by walking around carrying a sign. It was a great revelation. It saved me a lot of anxiety and a lot of wasted energy.”

Home America Energy Walking Anxiety Saved Revelations

Author:Peter Coyote