19 Metaphors for anxiety

If you had, you would comprehend that your anxiety to get away is only a foolish fancy.

Each army knew the enemy to which it was to be opposed: and the anxiety which each in vain attempted to repress was a convincing proof of their opponent's strength.

Sometimes I think all of a sudden that I do not love the Saviour at all, and am ready to believe that all my pretended anxiety to serve Him has been but a matter of feeling and not of principle; but of late I have been less disturbed by this imagination, as I find it extends to earthly friends who are dear to me as my own soul.

From what apprehensions were the veterans, and from what anxiety was the whole state relieved by you on that occasion!

Their anxiety for peace abroad was also the cause of harmony at home.

The anxiety for water, was indeed most distressing.

Anxiety, nearly equal to that of his wife, had been an inmate of Mr. Hamilton's bosom as the Duchess's voice reached his ear; but as he glanced on Caroline, a frown gathered on his brow.

Such anxiety from Harry was a mystery.

" "Anxiety is a mild term if one couldn't hear for a whole month from the girl who had his heart," he commented.

In any case anxiety is not the word" he corrected himself, and went on.

The soft features seemed to melt, the lips to move, the anxiety in the eyes to become a personal inquiry.

Our anticipatory anxiety in selecting the Two Drovers was a forcible illustration of the maxim, Qui dat cito, dat bis; for the extent occupied by the portion already quoted and its interruption, with the immense influx of works recently published, have somewhat interfered with our arrangements.

Negroes, therefore, almost worshiped the Bible, and their anxiety to read it was their greatest incentive to learn.

Their assumed anxiety to stay, is false pretense.

And on the other hand a certain nicety of ethical discernment and delicacy of devotion, an anxiety about points of perfection, is a guarantee rather of the quality of one's piety than of its depth or strength.

But anxiety at that moment was the controlling impulse of the Right Bower, as a certain superstitious remorse was the instinct of the two others, and without heeding the cynic, the three started at a rapid pace for the cabin.

The only real anxiety now is the finding of the Three Degree Depot.

Sleep was a stranger to me, and anxiety was my guest.

In large cities, where the mind is so much overwrought in the various schemes of private ambition, or of public business, anxiety is very frequently the grand opposing circumstance to recovery; so that while the causes which produced it are allowed to operate, mere medical prescription is of no avail.

19 Metaphors for  anxiety