He dare not come in company, for here he should be misused, disgraced, overshoot himself in gesture or speeches or be sick; he thinks everyman observes him. – Richard Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy
All too frequently, anxiety crushes not only your spirit and your potential, but your ability to take care of your mind and body. – Jonathan Davidson and Henry Dreher, The Anxiety Book: Developing Strength in the
When he is in the room with other persons, speech stops, as if there were a corpse in the apartment. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1838 journal, about Jones Very
Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination. – Christian Nevell Bovee
A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of sensibility to the presence of his fellow creature, that makes him stammer. – Thomas Carlyle, letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843 November 17th
Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are! – Charles Dickens #hsp #infj
Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so. – François VI de la Rochefoucault, Maxims
People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them. – George Bernard Shaw
A day of worry is more exhausting than a day of work. – John Lubbock
Worry, doubt, fear and despair are the enemies which slowly bring us down to the ground and turn us to dust before we die. – Attributed to Douglas MacArthur
When the superficial wearies me, it wearies me so much that I need an abyss in order to rest. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin #infj
Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday. – Author Unknown
We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic. – Cullen Hightower
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy. – Leo Buscaglia
Worry is a complete cycle of inefficient thought revolving about a pivot of fear. – Author Unknown
I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. – Henry David Thoreau, “Solitude,” Walden, 1854 #infj
The conversation at dinner had been so heated that by the end of it Mrs. Miniver had developed mental, moral, and physical indigestion….. [F]rom that moment on she resigned herself to a headache, and got it. – Jan Struther, Mrs. Miniver, 1930s
Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist. – Edgar Watson Howe
Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night. – Author Unknown
No one is moved to act, or resolves to speak a single word, who does not hope by means of this action or word to release anxiety from his spirit. – Ali ibn-Hazm
