Social Anxiety Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old social anxiety quotes, social anxiety sayings, and social anxiety proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

When you get over the anxiety, you discover you should have been mad a long time ago. Amy Clampitt
Anxiety comes into existence only when we become identified with small things. And they all pass. Rajneesh
The moment I started treating my social anxiety disorder, I started feeling better. Ricky Williams
For me, most of the anxiety and difficulty of writing takes place in the act of not writing. It's the procrastination, the thinking about writing that's difficult. Adam Mansbach
It was impossible to sleep. Anxiety stopped me from falling asleep; depression woke me up. David Walliams
Each moment of worry, anxiety or stress represents lack of faith in miracles, for they never cease. T.F. Hodge
Depression is a devastating illness, causing great suffering in the afflicted and anxiety to their nearest and dearest: it can hit at any age. John Cornwell
Even now it comes as a shock if by chance I notice in the street a face resembling someone I know however slightly, and I am at once seized by a shivering violent enough to make me dizzy. Osamu Dazai
A large part of the present anxiety to improve the education of girls and women is also due to the conviction that the political disabilities of women will not be maintained. Millicent Fawcett
Release all the anxiety that keeps you from moving ahead. Keep breathing it out and letting it go. Judith Orloff
In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring. Andre Gide
My anxiety level of my own work and what I'm doing and focusing on my art and all of that stuff? That's fundamental. Sufjan Stevens
Anxiety is a deep conscious breath away from dissolving. Michael Dolan
I have packed myself into silence so deeply and for so long that I can never unpack myself using words. When I speak, I only pack myself a little differently. Herta Muller
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
Social anxiety results from being around people who are resolutely opposed to who you are. Stefan Molyneux
Even though loneliness affects so many of us, it has gotten scant research attention compared to related conditions like depression or anxiety. Robin Marantz Henig
He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear. Michel de Montaigne
Anxiety is the fear that one of a pair of opposites might cancel the other. Forever. Alan Watts
The virtue of finding an ambition that carried with it lack of anxiety. James Earl Jones
The practice of patience can reduce agitation and anxiety. Ralph M. Steele
Your power comes when you let go of your need to have all the answers, when you relinquish your need to control the future, and when you lose your anxiety about the outcome. Keith Boykin
In being prepared to accept any and all truths, just as it comes, without trying to change it to suit our needs, we become free of the anxiety that comes from the urge to control. Angel Kyodo Williams
We laugh from relief, from grief, from fear and from anxiety. Ama Ata Aidoo
Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence. Angela Carter
Whenever doubt, anxiety or fear try to call me, they keep getting a busy signal - and soon they'll forgot my number. Edith Armstrong
The great thought, the great concern, the great anxiety of men is to restrict, as much as possible, the limits of their own responsibility. Giosue Borsi
If you feel anxiety or depression, you are not in the present. You are either anxiously projecting the future or depressed and stuck in the past. I. C. Robledo
Depression and anxiety are not far off. Often, I diverge from the thoughts just a little bit, then a little bit more. I. C. Robledo
Anxiety is life's inescapable accompaniment, its constant undertow. Every step we take offers it an opportunity; to avoid anxiety we would have to lock ourselves away. Soren Kierkegaard