Best anxiety & existence Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Anxiety comes into existence only when we become identified with small things. And they all pass.”

Author:Rajneesh

“A rising mass movement attracts and holds a following not by its doctrine and promises but by the refuge it offers from the anxieties, barrenness and meaningless of an individual existence. It cures the poignantly frustrated not by conferring upon them an absolute truth or by remedying the difficulties and abuses which made their lives miserable, but by freeing them from their ineffectual selves and it does this by enfolding and absorbing them into a closely knit and exultant corporate whole.”

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom, sharpen the sensitivity and assure the presence of tension that is necessary to preserve human existence.”

Humans Existence Worry Conditions Essentials Anxiety Preserves Tension Boredom Human Condition Sensitivity Confrontation Human Existence Anxiety And Worry

Author:Rollo May

“Orientation in time, space, and status are the essentials of social existence, and the Balinese, although they make very strong spirits for ceremonial occasions, with a few startling exceptions resist alcohol, because if one drinks one loses one's orientation. Orientation is felt as a protection rather than as a strait jacket and its loss provokes extreme anxiety.”

Source: Balinese Character: A Photographic Analysis

“Anxiety may consist of the loss of psychological or spiritual meaning which is identified with one's existence as a self, i.e., the threat of meaninglessness.”

May Self Wisdom Spiritual Loss Existence Anxiety Threat Psychological Meaninglessness

Author:Paul Tillich

“Now, I believe in life, and I believe in the joy of human existence, but these things cannot be experienced except as we also face the despair, also face the anxiety that every human being has to face if he lives with any creativity at all.”

Ifs Believe Humans Faces Joy I Believe Human Beings Existence Creativity Despair Anxiety I Believe In Human Existence

Author:Rollo May

“It is phenomenal how fast a little toot of smack will take away the agony of withdrawal and most other kinds of pain. What it cannot take away it makes meaningless. You may still have a broken arm, but somehow it doesn't matter so much. The same is true for angst and anxiety. It cancels pain so hidden that you were unaware of its existence until it disappeared.”

Kind May Littles Stills Matter Pain Existence Broken Arms Anxiety Meaningless Agony Angst Phenomenal Withdrawal Smack

Book:Mr Blue: Memoirs of a Renegade

Source: Mr Blue: Memoirs of a Renegade

“Think day and night, I am of the essence of that Supreme Existence, Knowledge, Bliss-what fear and anxiety have I? This body, mind, and intellect are all transient, and That which is beyond these is myself.”

Thinking Mind Body Night Existence Anxiety Essence Intellect Supreme Bliss Spiritual Wisdom Day And Night Transient

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“All the accoutrements that distinguish us from animal existence were put in place when we had a different kind of mind than we have now. We didn't have a mind that favored role specialization, and male dominance, and anxiety over female sexual activity related to feelings of male ownership. That all came later.”

Mind Kind Different Feelings Animal Existence Roles Activity Anxiety Female Males Related Different Kinds Ownership Dominance Specialization Male Dominance

Author:Terence McKenna

“The ego, as our familiar sense of self, seems predicated on fear. The fear that we might not make it, that we might not get where we want to go. But deep down there is also a grain of fear that we have nothing to give or nothing to offer. I think that's the ego's justifiable anxiety about its substantiality and existence.”

Thinking Want Giving Self Seems Might Existence Offers Ego Anxiety Familiar Grain Deep Down Sense Of Self

Author:Roger Housden

“For, just as in the beginning it is formed by desire, so afterwards love is kept in existence only by painful anxiety.”

Desire Love Is Existence Anxiety Painful

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)

“The party in Alobar’s head, which agitation and anxiety were throwing, now was crashed by a notion: existence can be rearranged.”

Party Existence Anxiety Notion Throwing Agitation

Book:Jitterbug Perfume

Source: Jitterbug Perfume

“I perceive value, I confer value, I create value, I even create — or guarantee — existence. Hence, my compulsion to make “lists.” The things (Beethoven’s music, movies, business firms) won’t exist unless I signify my interest in them by at least noting down their names. Nothing exists unless I maintain it (by my interest, or my potential interest). This is an ultimate, mostly subliminal anxiety. Hence, I must remain always, both in principle + actively, interested in everything. Taking all of knowledge as my province.”

Values Names Interest Existence Principles Anxiety Ultimate Lists Perceive Firm Guarantees Compulsion Provinces Movie Business Subliminal

Book:As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

Source: As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

“Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.”

Men Courses Pleasure Existence Normal Anxiety Distress Interrupted Short Life Life Is So Short How Short Life Is

Author:Joseph Wood Krutch

“The Devil's strategy for our times is to trivialize human existence and isolate us from one another while creating the delusion that the reasons are time pressures, work demands or economic anxieties.”

Humans Reason Fear Existence Atheism Economic Demand Anxiety Creating Devil Pressure Strategy Rage Our Time Delusion Human Existence

Author:Philip Zimbardo

“You have to take the responsibility totally, that it is you who decides either to be in misery or to be in blessing. If you want misery, have more desires. If you want a blissfulness, then learn the art - even for few moments - of being desireless, and you will be surprised. Even for a few moments, if you are desireless, all anguish, all anxiety disappears. And you are so contented, so fulfilled, that you cannot ask for more. Your blessing is so much that you can only say that you bless the whole existence. Still it will be there. It is so much; it is overflowing.”

Ifs Want Art Stills Whole Moments Desire Asks Existence Responsibility Blessing Anxiety Misery Disappear Bless Fulfilled Anguish

Author:Rajneesh

“The basic anxiety, the anxiety of a finite being about the threat of non-being, cannot be eliminated. It belongs to existence itself.”

Existence Anxiety Threat Finite

Book:The Courage To Be

Source: The Courage To Be

“Some gentlemen have made an amazing figure in literature by general discontent with the universe as a trap of dulness into which their great souls have fallen by mistake; but the sense of a stupendous self and an insignificant world may have its consolations. Lydgate's discontent was much harder to bear; it was the sense that there was a grand existence in thought and effective action lying around him, while his self was being narrowed into the miserable isolation of egoistic fears, and vulgar anxieties for events that might allay such fears.”

Source: Middlemarch

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