Quotes About Overthinking

Most things I worry about never happen anyway.

By all the shining moons, your brain is driving me crazy. Here, you keep this, use it on me whenever you want, and STOP WORRYING SO MUCH.

El pensamiento es útil cuando provoca una acción, y un obstáculo cuando sustituye a la acción. —BILL RAEDER

There's good self-consciousness, and then there's toxic, paralyzing, raped-by-psychic-Bedouins self-consciousness.

The most dangerous thing about an academic education is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get lost in abstract thinking instead of simply paying attention to what's going on in front of me.

My worst character flaw that I'm conscious of is that I tend to think my way into circles instead of resolving anything. It's paralyzing and boring for people around me.

In short that 99% of the head's thinking activity consists of trying to scare the everliving shit out of itself.

The maxim Nothing avails but perfection may be spelt p-a-r-a-l-y-s-i-s

The more you look at your problems, the bigger they get." -Chuck Smith

Where does thinking get us?' she said. 'All thinking does is bring you down.

Her mind would careen along one path and then another, making imaginary moves and countermoves, a chess game played against herself to no purpose except indulging her anxiety. A snake eating its own tail and then choking on it.

Things aren't that simple," said Tiffany. "They are if we want them to be," said Vid. He swept up the final shards of glass and stood. "You're getting yourself all worked up over nothing. You're finding catastrophes.

My head's filled up with all the reasons it won't work. And I keep running the figures, over and over, but I can't seem to come up with an answer.

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 f**k on.

Worry is the darkroom in which negatives are developed

Then it's just day by day. And most days are beautiful, Don. It's regretting yesterday or overthinking tomorrow, that's when ugliness comes in, right?

La preocupación es una nube de la que llueve destrucción.

For years I played the what-if game. Maybe you're acquainted with this pastime. The rules are simple: Rule #1: You're only allowed to think of worst-case scenarios. Rule #2: You're never allowed to win this game. You can only lose. Rule #3: The more you play, the greater your losses.

Anxiety Girl, able to jump to the worst conclusion in a single bound!

If overthinking burned calories, I'd be dead.

Anxiety is having 99 problems and 86 of them are made-up scenarios that might never happen, but you stress about them anyway.

being anxious about shit ahead of time just means I've got to be anxious twice.

Why are you doing this to yourself? When something bad happens, why do you have to pick at it until it bleeds all over again?

When a girl is silent, she's either over-thinking, tired of waiting, falling apart, crying inside, or all of the above.