We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read. ~ Abraham Lincoln

Anxiety is caused by a lack of control, organization, preparation, and action. ~ David Kekich

Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation and everything this is finest in human history. ~ Charles Frankel

There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it. ~ Ovid

If I ignore my work, I start having anxiety attacks. ~ Rosanne Cash

Concentration is a fine antidote to anxiety. ~ Jack Nicklaus

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

The good man does not grieve that other people do not recognize his merits. His only anxiety is lest he should fail to recognize theirs. ~ Confucius

Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head. ~ Mignon McLaughlin

Literature is achieved anxiety. ~ Harold Bloom

Anxiety is love's greatest killer, because it is like the stranglehold of the drowning. ~ Anais Nin