anxiety Quotes

A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

From my childhood I had been intended for the clergy. This prospect hung like a dark cloud on my mind.

The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.

If fame belonged to me, I could not escape her; if she did not, the longest day would pass me on the chase, and the approbation of my dog would forsake me then. My barefoot rank is better.

In such a porcelain life, one likes to be sure that all is well lest one stumble upon one's hopes in a pile of broken crockery.