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.

Anxiety can be replaced only by the freedom whose harsh requirements are its cause. Soren Kierkegaard
Being free requires us to release the brakes that anxiety represents in order to accept and appropriate our proper spiritual fulfillment or perhaps even to recognize, if that is what we in the end believe, that no such prospect is in store. Soren Kierkegaard
We truly live in anxious times. We're reacting instead of acting, leading and calming down. Kathleen Smith
When we feel threatened, we must respond to the threat. This is the simplest and best definition of anxiety: anxiety is your response to a real or imagined threat. Kathleen Smith
Our anxiety serves serves a very important purpose, because the central goal of being a human is simple: to not die for as long as you can. Kathleen Smith
Anxiety is a meteor shower of what-ifs. Max Lucado
Fear results in fight or flight. Anxiety creates doom and gloom. Max Lucado
Anxiety and fear are cousins but not twins. Fear sees a threat. Anxiety imagines one. Max Lucado
The presence of anxiety is unavoidable, but the prison of anxiety is optional. Max Lucado
Anxiety is not a sin; it is an emotion. Anxiety can, however, lead to sinful behavior. Max Lucado
Being paranoid is accepting that you can see a very small window of a much larger reality. Jason Edward Shiffman
At any moment, there is always something that will take you down, you just have to wait for it, and most importantly watch for it. Jason Edward Shiffman
Paranoia is a hunch that is not yet proven. Jason Edward Shiffman
Everything is connected, that makes the world as dangerous as it is beautiful. Jason Edward Shiffman
Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Robert Orben
My first psychiatrist said I was paranoid, but I want a second opinion because I think he's out to get me. Tom Wilson
No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted. Olive Schreiner
A paranoid individual's characteristic problems with appearance, speech, thought, behavior, mood, insight, judgement, and intrelligence when taken together trace recognizable pattern called the mental status. Martin Kantor
In some paranoid individuals the signs of change in appearance that occur are subtle. Martin Kantor
In some paranoid individuals the changes in appearance resemble those found in individuals who are depressed. Martin Kantor
Depressed paranoid individuals may use what they believe to be positive changes in their appearance to compensate for feeling defective. Martin Kantor
Paranoid individuals like individuals who are depressed feel pessimistic due to the belief that they will never have any sort of life. Martin Kantor
The sense of anxiety and guilt doesn't come from having too much to do; it's the automatic result of breaking agreements with yourself. Vincenzo Berghella
Anxiety: the dizziness of freedom. Soren Kierkegaard
Anxiety is the wound of our times. Sheryl Paul
Anxiety, when approached from the mindset of learning, directs you to something deep inside that needs to be seen, a call from soul to pay attention, an invitation from the wellsprings of being to turn inward and heal at the next layer of growth. Sheryl Paul
Anxiety's emissaries arrive in many forms: worry, intrusive thoughts, obsessions, compulsions, insomnia, somatic symptoms. If we greet these emissaries with shame and try to sequester them into the far down, hidden recesses of psyche, they will gather in in numbers and strength until we are forced to listen. Sheryl Paul
Seeing anxiety and intrusive thoughts thoughts as wise manifestations of the unconscious is a vastly different view--and a much more hopeful and life enhancing view --of anxiety than one our culture holds. Sheryl Paul
Anxiety is a doorway into a self that longs for wholeness. Sheryl Paul