Anxiety Quotes to Help Relax Your Mind and Ease Fears

Anxiety is difficult to discuss and even more difficult to live with. If you’re hoping to find a way to ease your anxiousness and decompress from the thoughts stirring around your mind, these anxiety quotes will help you find some much-needed release when you feel as if you’re spinning out of control.

According to figures by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), anxiety disorders are the most common mental illness in the U.S., affecting 18.1% of the population every year. Anxiety disorders cost the U.S. more than $42 billion a year.

Empowering quotes like the ones below act like mini therapy sessions. When you read a quote and it feels good, gives you hope, or eases your worries, that quote is good for you. One mantra that can help is, “If that happens, I’ll find a way to deal with it.” Trusting that you’ll have the resources you need when you need them reduces worry and helps you enjoy today.

Here is our collection of inspirational, calm, and uplifting anxiety quotes, anxiety sayings, and anxiety proverbs to encourage you when facing it.


1. “Everything you have ever wanted, is sitting on the other side of fear.” – George Addair

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

3. “You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway.” – Steve Maraboli

4. “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.” ― Anaïs Nin

5. “Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be.” – Wayne W. Dyer

6. “Anxiety’s like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn’t get you very far.”― Jodi Picoult

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

8. What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow? – Thomas a Kempis

9. “If you’re going through hell keep going.” – Winston Churchill

10. “Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.”– William James

11. “Anxiety was born in the very same moment as mankind. And since we will never be able to master it, we will have to learn to live with it—just as we have learned to live with storms.”― Paulo Coelho

12. “How can a person deal with anxiety? You might try what one fellow did. He worried so much that he decided to hire someone to do his worrying for him. He found a man who agreed to be his hired worrier for a salary of $200,000 per year. After the man accepted the job, his first question to his boss was, “Where are you going to get $200,000 per year?” To which the man responded, “That’s your worry.” ― Max Lucado

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

14. “I promise you nothing is as chaotic as it seems. Nothing is worth diminishing your health. Nothing is worth poisoning yourself into stress, anxiety, and fear.”― Steve Maraboli

15. “Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

16. “Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations. The best is yet to come.” – Zig Ziglar

17. “Trust yourself. You’ve survived a lot, and you’ll survive whatever is coming.” – Robert Tew

18. “Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.” — Thich Nhat Hanh

19. “Nothing is permanent in this wicked world — not even our troubles.” — Charlie Chaplin

20. “People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.” — George Bernard Shaw

Did you enjoy these anxiety quotes? Which of the quotes was your favorite? Tell us in the comment section below. We would love to hear all about it.

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