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Quotes About Anxiety

In general, I think I'm quick to worry about disasters of all kinds.
~ Karen Thompson Walker
Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.
~ Will Rogers
I'm always on the worrying side.
~ Toto Wolff
It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there's nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.
~ Wayne Dyer
I've noticed that worrying is like praying for what you don't want to happen.
~ Robert Downey, Jr.
I am someone who worries a lot. I'm always worrying 'what if?' Now I'm a mum - there will be worries for the rest of my life, but they're not about me anymore.
~ Penelope Cruz
Once you start worrying, it's hard to stop.
~ Alexandra Petri
If anything kept me awake at night it would be worrying that there wouldn't be enough time to have a nap the next day.
~ Joe Lycett
I have no organisational skills. All my energy goes into worry - worrying takes a lot of energy.
~ Rita Rudner
Women are used to worrying over trifles.
~ Susan Glaspell
I'm a bit of a worrier, to an extreme. I'll crack a joke, then worry if I've offended someone - even when they're laughing. I have a guilt complex, always worrying.
~ Sophia Bush
What used to keep me up at night was the fact that I didn't know how I was going to pay the rent. Now that I can pay the rent, I'm worrying about people I care about, you know, the people I love. The little aches and pains of my children that I, my family. That's always first.
~ Paul Auster
We have this amazing ability to turn on the exactly same stress response worrying about a mortgage that a zebra does when it's sprinting away from a lion.
~ Robert Sapolsky
Worrying is the most natural and spontaneous of all human functions.
~ Lewis Thomas
I'm always like the guy who wants to date the pretty girl so bad, and when he finally gets the chance, he blows it because he spends too much time worrying about it.
~ Michael McDonald
Ever since I was a little girl, I've worried too much. It always bothers me because sometimes you end up worrying more about the worry and you are not resolving things that are right there in front of you. I have been like that all my life, and it's hard to change.
~ Penelope Cruz
Failure worries me; nobody wants to fail. There is a fear that one day, films will not come my way, or if someone doesn't watch your film, that is a worrying point. It is unpredictable in the industry.
~ Alia Bhatt
My dirty little secret is I don't drive at all, though I have my license and I renew it every five years. I'm phobic. I keep worrying if I drive, I'll end up killing someone. I hoped that by writing about a car crash, I might understand and heal this phobia, but I didn't! I'm still phobic.
~ Caroline Leavitt
Powerful new drug-free treatments have been developed for depression and for every conceivable type of anxiety, such as chronic worrying, shyness, public speaking anxiety, test anxiety, phobias, and panic attacks. The goal of the treatment is not just partial improvement but full recovery.
~ David D. Burns
Red carpets seem so glamorous, but you're really just standing there sweating and worrying your hair is going to fall. And in the end, people are only going to see one picture of you. You just smile for one second and then you walk over to the side and check your phone. It's pretty weird.
~ Morgan Saylor
Incidentally, one of the most worrying problems in the impact of Western modernity on traditional culture is that it quite rapidly communicates its own indifference or anxiety or even hostility about age and ageing.
~ Rowan Williams
I watch MSNBC while I simultaneously read the news. After dinner, I'm in my room for the night worrying about everything I saw on MSNBC.
~ Cazzie David
The thought of a spa treatment is lovely, but I'd be lying there having a massage and worrying about how much I had to do. I'm not very good at relaxing!
~ Louise Nurding
In my first few years of elementary school at the Edison School in Detroit, I did poorly. I remember worrying that I might fail the second grade and be held back.
~ Robert J. Shiller