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

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".

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.

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

Our feelings of anxiety are genuine but confused signals that something is amiss, and so need to be listened to and patiently interpreted -- processes which are unlikely to be completed when we have to hand, in the computer, one of the most powerful tools of distraction ever invented. The entire internet is in a sense pornographic, a deliverer of a constant excitement that we have no innate capacity to resist, a seducer that leads us down paths that for the most part do nothing to answer our real needs.