Anxiety about the Future Quotes

We suffer more in imagination than in reality.

Possessing the ideal makes a person nervous: you sense the inevitable decline just ahead.

Cowardice, the dread of what will happen.

The thing I’m most afraid of is me. Of not knowing what I’m going to do. Of not knowing what I’m doing right now

Some there are that torment themselves afresh with the memory of what is past; others, again, afflict themselves with the apprehension of evils to come; and very ridiculously both - for the one does not now concern us, and the other not yet ... One should count each day as a separate life.

You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.

I don't want to go to the future. I'm scared of the future!

This is awful. I don't know what's going to happen to me or to anyone else in the world.

I have a very bad relationship with the future. We don't get on. We just ignore each other.

Uncertainty and the prospect of failure can be very scary noises in the shadows. Most people will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.

We live in a very scary time. Or should I say we don't live at all.

It's the unknown that makes me feel the most vulnerable.

I'm scared of making the biggest mistake of my life. I'm just trying to figure out what the mistake is.

It's the end game that people dread and that's what I'm scared of

The fear that things may change tomorrow... Somebody may die, you may go bankrupt, your job may be taken away. There are a thousand and one things which may change. You are burdened with fears and fears, and none of them are valid - because yesterday also you were full of all these fears, unnecessarily. Things may have changed, but you are still alive. And man has an immense capacity to adjust himself in any situation.

A thing may be dreaded as long as it has not overtaken you.

There comes a time when the blankness of the future is just so extreme, it's like such a black wall of nothingness. Not of bad things like a cave full of monsters and so, you're afraid of entering it. It's just nothingness, the void, emptiness and it is just horrible. It's like contemplating a future-less future and so you just want to step out of it. The monstrosity of being alive overwhelms you.

...can I tell you something...? I don't think you're in love with the past. I think you're scared of the future.

Are you ever afraid to go to sleep? Afraid of what comes next?” He smiles a sad little smile and I swear it’s like he knows. “Sometimes I’m afraid of what I’m leaving behind,” he says.

Sorrow itself is not so hard to bear As the thought of sorrow coming. Airy ghosts, That work no harm, do terrify us more Than men in steel with bloody purposes. Death is not dreadful; 'tis the dread of death— We die whene'er we think of it!

They live in perpetual fear of the time they call "The Coming of the Great White Handkerchief

The thing you hope will never happen to you might just happen to someone else instead, who has been spending their life dreading the thing that will happen to you.

The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.

People are scared man, they're scared of the void.

I am in terror of the infinity before me, having come through the one behind bringing no knowledge I can take on.