“In a logical system, it is convenient to say that possibility passes over into actuality. However, in actuality it is not so convenient, and an intermediate term is required. The intermediate term is anxiety… Anxiety is neither a category of necessity nor a category of freedom; it is entangled freedom, where freedom is not free in itself but entangled, not by necessity, but in itself.”
— Søren Kierkegaard, The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Orienting Deliberation on the Dogmatic Issue of Hereditary Sin (1980), p. 49
“We have genuflected before the God of Science only to find that it has given us the atomic bomb, producing fears and anxieties that science can never mitigate.”
— Martin Luther King, Strength to Love, 1963.
“Anxiety is the apprehension cued off by a threat to some value that the individual holds essential to his existence as a personality.”
— Rollo May, The Meaning of Anxiety (1977), p. 205
“Good groups help their family, friends, and community members recognize and dissipate anxiety rather than joining them in acting out cruelly against others.”
— Sarah Schulman,
“There are options, and even though anxiety may make the reality of choices elusive, they still exist. Recognize the existence of the anxiety, then strive to overcome it in order to perceive other options”
— Sarah Schulman,
“Tell him who is oppressed with anxiety, that anxiety will not last: As happiness passeth away, so passeth away anxiety.”
— One Thousand and One Nights, Edward Willian Lane's translation, page 22

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