Quotes & Sayings About Anxiety From Famous Authors

'Just looking at pictures' used to be considered cheating. No longer. The graphic novel is booming. Comics, heavily illustrated texts, books with no words are now accepted as reading. — Jon Scieszka

There is a tendency to want to treat blacks as a monolithic socioeconomic group. — William Julius Wilson

But there is that about well-intentioned advice that has the opposite effect of the one intended, and causes a Spanish fly of perversity to enter into the hitherto passive soul. — Caitlin Thomas

Wasting your time in anxious worry over what you may not have is a good way to waste what you need to get it. — Guy Finley

One of the things that defines our character is how we handle mistakes. — Terry Goodkind

Normally my sister, Sadie, or some of our other initiates from Brooklyn House would've come with me. But they were all at the First Nome, in Egypt, for a weeklong training session on controlling cheese demons(yes, they're a real thing; believe me, you don't want to know) — Rick Riordan

I normally keep a series of draft in a catalogue type of book in which I scribble, sketch and draw ideas. — Jonathan Shapiro

Art is coming face to face with yourself. — Jackson Pollock

In words which can still bring tears to the eyes, St. Augustine describes the desolation into which the death of his friend Nebridius plunged him (Confessions IV, 10). Then he draws a moral. This is what comes, he says, of giving one's heart to anything but God. All human beings pass away. Do not let your happiness depend on something you may lose. If love is to be a blessing, not a misery, it must be for the only Beloved who will never pass away. — C.S. Lewis

My girlfriend loves to eat chocolate. She's always eating chocolate, and she likes to joke she's got a chocolate addiction. Get me away from those Hersheys bars. I'm addicted to them. It's really annoying. So I put her in a car and I drove her downtown. And I pointed out a crack addict. And I said, Do you see that, honey? ... Why can't you be that skinny? — Anthony Jeselnik

See the bints? They might be soft on the outside, but see on the inside? They've got hearts on them like Hygena worktops. — Ian Pattison

The more you believe that you deserve healthy love, the more you will conquer and attract. — Karen Salmansohn

The future holds no hope or meaning to me. I know that by killing myself other people will suffer, but why go through this interminable hell? What's the point of being here if you feel unloved and abandoned by those you used to trust and count on? What's the point of living if you don't belong anywhere? — Julie Anne Peters

Poetry is a separate language, or more specifically, a language within a language. — Paul Valery

Chanting was very deep for me. It was as if I remembered it. It was like a real surrender. — Ione Skye