The Anxiety of Sunday afternoon: your unlived lives and infinite possibility pressing upon the constraints of reality.

as the determinants of high status keep shifting, so, too, naturally, will the triggers of status anxiety be altered.

The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness".

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

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.

Blessed with riches and possibilities far beyond anything imagined by ancestors who tilled the unpredictable soil of medieval Europe, modern populations have nonetheless shown a remarkable capacity to feel that neither who they are nor what they have is quite enough.