The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.
~ Josh Billings

Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
~ Francis H. Bradley

Suspense is worst than disappointment.
~ Robert Burns

We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out another very often.
~ Winston Churchill

God never built a Christian strong enough to carry today's duties and tomorrow's anxieties piled on the top of them.
~ Theodore L. Cuyler

Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is, with thoughts of what may be.
~ John Dryden

Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. In a world where everything is doubtful, and where we may be disappointed, and be blessed in disappointment, why this restless stir and commotion of mind? Can it alter the cause, or unravel the mystery of human events?
~ Tryon Edwards

Some of your grief you have cured, and lived to survive; but what torments of pain have you endured that haven't as yet arrived.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
~ Benjamin Franklin

Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
~ Ben Johnson

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity
~ Chuck Jones

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
~ Soren Kierkegaard

Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbors.
~ Rudyard Kipling

The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.
~ James Russell Lowell

Love is full of anxious fears.
~ Ovid

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

Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.
~ Arthur Somers Roche

Anxiety about the future never profits; we feel no evil until it comes, and when we feel it, no counsel helps; wisdom is either too early or too late.
~ Ruckett

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.
~ Seneca