Alain de Botton Quotes about Anxiety

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Sweetness is the opposite of machismo, which is everywhere-and I really don't get on with machismo. I'm interested in sensitivity, and weakness, and fear, and anxiety, because I think that, at the end of the day, behind

Sweetness is the opposite of machismo, which is everywhere-and I really don't get on with machismo. I'm interested in sensitivity, and weakness, and fear, and anxiety, because I think that, at the end of the day, behind our masks, that's what we are.

Alain de Botton

Thinking, Opposites, Anxiety

"Alain de Botton's Healing Arts" by Joshua Rothman, www.newyorker.com. November 19, 2013.

Though it may feel otherwise, enjoying life is no more dangerous than apprehending it with continuous anxiety and gloom.

Alain de Botton

Worry, Enjoy Life, Anxiety

Twitter post from Oct 12, 2012

Life seems to be a process of replacing one anxiety with another and substituting one desire for another--which is not to say that we should never strive to overcome any of our anxieties or fulfil any of our desires, but rather to suggest that we should perhaps build into our strivings an awareness of the way our goals promise us a respite and a resolution that they cannot, by definition, deliver.

Alain de Botton

Goal, Anxiety, Promise

Alain De Botton (2008). “Status Anxiety”, p.197, Vintage

In the gap between who we wish one day to be and who we are at present, must come pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation.

Alain de Botton

Pain, Envy, Anxiety

Alain de Botton (2001). “The Consolations of Philosophy”, p.202, Penguin UK

The price we have paid for expecting to be so much more than our ancestors is a perpetual anxiety that we are far from being all we might be.

Alain de Botton

Anxiety, Might, Expecting

Alain De Botton (2008). “Status Anxiety”, p.44, Vintage

Status anxiety definitely exists at a political level. Many Iraqis were annoyed with the US essentially for reasons of status: for not showing them respect, for humiliating them.

Alain de Botton

Annoyed, Anxiety, Political

Taking photographs can assuage the itch for possession sparked by the beauty of a place; our anxiety over losing a precious scene can decline with every click of the shutter.

Alain de Botton

Photography, Anxiety, Losing

Alain de Botton (2003). “The Art of Travel”, p.114, Penguin UK