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

— Billings, Josh

Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.

— Bradley, Francis H.

Suspense is worst than disappointment.

— Burns, Robert

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

— Churchill, Winston

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

— Cuyler, Theodore L.

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

— Dryden, John

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?

— Edwards, Tryon

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.

— Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

— Franklin, Benjamin

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

— Johnson, Ben

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity

— Jones, Chuck

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

— Kierkegaard, Soren

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

— Kipling, Rudyard

The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

— Lowell, James Russell

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

— Ovid

Love is full of anxious fears.

— Ovid

Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.

— Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

— Roche, Arthur Somers

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

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

— Seneca

Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.

— Smith, Frank

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

— Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds.

— Tennyson, Lord Alfred

If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. nothing in the paper today , we sigh.

— Valery, Paul

The suspense is terrible, I hope it will last.

— Wilde, Oscar