100+ Social Anxiety Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: "Jurnee Smollett-Bell Gets Deep About Underground, a Slave Narrative That Will Make You Proud to Be Black". Interview with Ronda Racha Penrice, www.theroot.com. March 9, 2016.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Inspirational Future, Blooming

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Live And Learn, Importunate

The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all.

- Mignon McLaughlin

source: Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.106, BookBaby

topic: Gambling, Anxiety, Risk, Chances Are, Social Anxiety

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

- Louisa May Alcott

source: J. M. Barrie, Charles Dickens, Johanna Spyri, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum (2015). “Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…”, p.1082, e-artnow

topic: Inspirational, Confidence, Wisdom, Storms Of Life, Tall Ships

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.

- Leo Buscaglia

topic: Inspirational, Life, Strength, Sorrow And Happiness, Joy Happiness

You have social media and the Internet and immigration and so, suddenly, cultures are clashing and people feel as if they're less familiar with the people around them. That causes social anxieties.

- Barack Obama

source: Source: www.spiegel.de

topic: Media, People, Anxiety, Social Anxiety

Now that I have conquered social anxiety disorder, I find pleasure in fans approaching me.

- Ricky Williams

topic: Anxiety, Fans, Pleasure, Anxiety Disorder, Social Anxiety

INTROVERTS are especially vulnerable to challenges like marital tension, a parent’s death, or abuse. They’re more likely than their peers to react to these events with depression, anxiety, and shyness. Indeed, about a quarter of Kagan’s high-reactive kids suffer from some degree of the condition known as “social anxiety disorder,” a chronic and disabling form of shyness.

- Susan Cain

topic: Kids, Anxiety Disorder, Parent, Social Anxiety

From restless thoughts, that, like a deadly swarm Of hornets arm'd, no sooner found alone, But rush upon me thronging.

- John Milton

topic: Thinking, Anxiety, Arms, Swarms, Hornets

I feel like I've been in love, but I have stood aside from it over and over again in my life. It's all you want, but it's terrifying.

- Adam Duritz

topic: Want, Feels, Been In Love, Closeness, Social Anxiety

A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of sensibility to the presence of his fellow creature, that makes him stammer.

- Thomas Carlyle

source: Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson, 17 November (1843)

topic: Men, Anxiety, Excess, Stammering, Social Anxiety

What makes me deeply vulnerable? Probably the thing I suffer most from and have the most uncontrollable reactions from is still social anxiety.

- Alex Ebert

source: "Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros | Alex Ebert Interview". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

topic: Anxiety, Suffering, Vulnerable, Uncontrollable, Social Anxiety

The neurotic is always half-drowning in anxiety, and always being half-rescued.

- Mignon McLaughlin

topic: Anxiety, Half, Drowning, Social Anxiety

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Lonely, Halloween, Fall, Circulation, Malaria

Well, unless you've suffered from panic attacks and social anxiety disorders, which is what I was diagnosed as having, it's hard to explain it. But you go on stage knowing you're actually physically going to die. You will keel over and die.

- Donny Osmond

topic: Knowing, Anxiety, Goes On, Keel, Anxiety Disorder

Status and class and social anxiety and perhaps social code are all released when you look at paintings of powerful individuals from the past.

- Kehinde Wiley

topic: Powerful, Past, Class, Social Anxiety

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.88, Courier Corporation

topic: Love, Lonely, Men, Always Alone, Feeling Alone

I have social anxiety. It's easier up on stage because there's security in being there. When I'm off stage I'm trying not to be a manic freak. I'm quite shy.

- Sia Furler

topic: Anxiety, Trying, Shy, Manic, Social Anxiety

I was having pretty bad anxiety attacks and stuff, and I think a lot of it had to do with my physical environment. Deep down I've always had a pretty strong connection with nature, but I've suppressed it for so long while living in the city. I think it caught up to me. I started really bugging out and needing wide-open space. So it was that simple. That and social anxiety. I felt like I was existing too much in nightlife.

- Brian Degraw

topic: Strong, Simple, Thinking, Social Anxiety

We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic.

- Cullen Hightower

topic: Worry, Panic, Moments, Respite, Social Anxiety

I do think economic and social anxiety is the number one issue. And I'm pretty confident Hillary Clinton will be really riding that train pretty hard.

- David Brooks

source: "Shields and Brooks on the Hillary Clinton veepstakes, the latest Trump-Cruz dustup". Interview with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. July 22, 2016.

topic: Thinking, Numbers, Issues, Social Anxiety

I'm shy, but I'm not clinically shy. I don't have social anxiety disorder or anything like that. I more have a gentle shyness. Like, I have a little trouble mingling at parties.

- Samantha Bee

topic: Party, Anxiety, Littles, Mingling, Anxiety Disorder

There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread, natures so doomed that no prosperity can sooth their ragged and dishevelled desolation.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1954). “The Power of Emerson's Wisdom”

topic: Strong, Pain, Grief, Desolation, Not Strong Enough

I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.

- Vladimir Nabokov

topic: Children, Writing, Thinking, Social Anxiety

I don't mind being recognized, it's just that I have a bit of social anxiety, and this situation has increased it. The idea of having to be 'on' and social at random times can be difficult. I'll be out in the morning, someone comes and takes a picture, and then I discover I have toothpaste on my face.