Definition of Anxiety

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Anxiety

Concern or solicitude respecting some thing or event, future or uncertain, which disturbs the mind, and keeps it in a state of painful uneasiness.

Eager desire.

A state of restlessness and agitation, often with general indisposition and a distressing sense of oppression at the epigastrium.

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Anxiety Quotations

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.
Wayne Dyer

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.
Henry David Thoreau

Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
Anais Nin

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

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
Plato

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.
T. S. Eliot

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Soren Kierkegaard

The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
Charles Spurgeon

It has been said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only empties today of its strength.
Charles Spurgeon

Anxiety Translations

anxiety in Italian is fastidio
anxiety in Latin is sollicitudo, metus, sollicitudo
anxiety in Norwegian is engstelse, uro

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