anxiety Quotes

Everybody I know is writing plays twice a year. It's sort of making me feel I am not up to much.

The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.

We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality.

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.

Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.

A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.

We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.

I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare.

A gun is no more dangerous than a cricket bat in the hands of a madman.

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.