Quotes About Overthinking

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He'd worn himself ragged with second-guessing until his head felt like a tinful of bees.

Someday, Mitth'raw'nuruodo, you'll overthink and overplan, and it will all come crashing down around you. When that happens, I hope someone is there to lift you back to your feet. You, perhaps? Ar'alani shakes her head. Her expression holds regret, perhaps even pain. I very much fear I will never see you again. The growing chaos in the Ascendancy warns of coming war. If you don't return quickly, there may be nothing left for you to return to.

I think sometimes I think too damn much. I worry about this and that and everything else and then I wake up and four more years have slipped right out the back door.

Sometimes I suffer from indigestion of the mind.

Worry is a complete cycle of inefficient thought revolving about a pivotal fear.

Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.

Worry is the cross which we make for ourselves by overanxiety.

Worry is a morbid anticipation of events which never happen.

Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself.

There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.

Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.

I'm amazed this guy manages to get out of bed in the morning without working himself into a panic attack over the chance that he might trip on the bath mat and stab himself through the eye socket with his toothbrush and be left with a permanent twitch that'll ruin his chances of landing an airplane safely if the pilot has a heart attack and doom hundreds to a fiery death.

This guy couldn't order a sandwich without tying himself in knots about the possible consequences of mayonnaise.

My attention span is all over the place, and I overthink things. I'm an insomniac.

Having precise ideas often leads to a man doing nothing.

I work, Monica, and I think about work, and I freak out about work, and I think about how much I think about work, and I freak out about how much I think about how much I think about work, and I think about how freaked out I get about how much I think about how much I think about work. Does that count as a hobby?

I work, Monica, and I think about work, and I freak out about work, and I think about how much I think about work, and I freak out about how much I think about how much I think about work, and I think about how freaked out I get about how much I think about how much I think about work.

Individuals and church bodies are often caught in the paralysis of analysis. We

Winston Churchill once described worry as a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind that, if encouraged, cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.

I think it's not very enjoyable for me to move on grass and play because I'm thinking too much!

that you are able to suspend the functioning of your imagination—for it is an overactive imagination that turns men into cowards, not a surfeit of fear, as most believe.

You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could've, would've happened... or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move the fuck on.

I had this tendency to think things through a little too much, envisioning things in the future while I completely missed the present.