Rollo May Quotes about Anxiety

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One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.

One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.

Rollo May

Blessing, Anxiety, Age

Rollo May (2009). “Man's Search for Himself”, p.7, W. W. Norton & Company

It is well to remind ourselves that anxiety signifies a conflict, and so long as a conflict is going on, a constructive solution is possible.

Rollo May

Motivation, Long, Anxiety

Rollo May (2009). “Man's Search for Himself”, p.22, W. W. Norton & Company

Creative people... are distinguished by the fact that they can live with anxiety, even though a high price may be paid in terms of insecurity, sensitivity, and defenselessness for the gift of 'divine madness,' to borrow the term used by the classical Greeks.

Rollo May

People, Creative, Anxiety

Competitive individualism militates against the experience of community, and that lack of community is a centrally important factor in contemporaneous anxiety.

Rollo May

Responsibility, Community, Anxiety

Rollo May (2015). “The Meaning of Anxiety”, p.132, W. W. Norton & Company

Courage is the capacity to meet the anxiety which arises as one achieves freedom. It is the willingness to differentiate, to move from the protecting realms of parental dependence to new levels of freedom and integration.

Rollo May

Courage, Moving, Anxiety

Rollo May (2009). “Man's Search for Himself”, p.169, W. W. Norton & Company

Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom, sharpen the sensitivity and assure the presence of tension that is necessary to preserve human existence.

Rollo May

Worry, Boredom, Anxiety

A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.

Rollo May

Anxiety, Stronger, Threat

"Psychology and the Human Dilemma". Book by Rollo May, p. 51, 1967.

Dogmatism of all kinds--scientific, economic, moral, as well as political--are threatened by the creative freedom of the artist. This is necessarily and inevitably so. We cannot escape our anxiety over the fact that the artists together with creative persons of all sorts, are the possible destroyer of our nicely ordered systems. (p. 76)

Rollo May

Artist, Creative, Anxiety

Anxiety is an even better teacher than reality, for one can temporarily evade reality by avoiding the distasteful situation; but anxiety is a source of education always present because one carries it within.

Rollo May

Teacher, Reality, Anxiety

Rollo May Ph.D. (2015). “The Meaning Of Anxiety”, p.66, Pickle Partners Publishing