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“At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety.”

Literature Deals Stage Anxiety Misery Overwhelmed Being Overwhelmed

Author:Nigella Lawson

“Gather experience... Look at what you should not look at. A feeling of anxiety is the sure and certain evidence that you should do this.”

Should Looks Feelings Certain Literature Anxiety Evidence

Author:Clive Barker

“The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.”

Christian Literature Bears Anxiety Hardest Misfortunes

Author:Christopher Morley

“There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.”

Inspirational Literature Fear Half Anxiety Anticipation Other Half

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.”

Reason Running Action Literature Wise Anxiety Running Away Caution

Book:The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha

Source: The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha

“The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety.”

Men Literature Natural Roles Century Anxiety Twentieth Century

Book:The Naked and the Dead: 50th Anniversary Edition, With a New Introduction by the Author

Source: The Naked and the Dead: 50th Anniversary Edition, With a New Introduction by the Author

“Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating.”

Men Ideas Self Pain Literature Doubt Anxiety Confusion Being A Woman Self-doubt Excruciating Pain

Author:Andrew Cohen

“Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.”

Soul Literature Parent Anxiety Conscience Innocence Compatible

Book:Nights at the circus

Source: Nights at the circus

“Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.”

Men Long Literature Anxiety Worship Remains Constant Agonizing

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.”

Firsts Doe Literature Fear Learning Lessons Anxiety Life Lesson Willpower Fear Not Do Not Fear Lesson Learned Anxiety And Fear

Author:John Dryden

“If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.”

Ifs Matter Literature Worry Anxiety Eulogy

Author:Horace

“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

“I never want a girl to lose all hope that her life can’t completely turn around, even if she feels that she is at the edge, standing on one foot, and ready to say goodbye.”

Source: Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl