Quotes About Overthinking

I shuddered at the thought and from that point on did my best to stop thinking.

In the middle of the night, waiting for daylight feels like forever, a forever where you're stuck going over every bad thought in your head with a fine-tooth comb.

Catastrophizing is my general approach to all social events: how, when, and why it will implode are the first things I think about

Once you exceed the measure, there is no limit. This is the major problem with overthinking. Things are out of your control.

The thought process is beautiful and so is the action. But too much thinking without taking action will easily lead to overthinking.

I waste at least an hour every day lying in bed. Then I waste time pacing. I waste time thinking. I waste time being quiet and not saying anything because I'm afraid I'll stutter.

Life can paralyze us, freeze us into statues if we think about things too long.

Analysis paralysis occurs when you overthink and underwork.

Doesn't a part of you think you're making a big deal out of not very much? That if you were somehow not so weak, you could be happy and free just like everyone else?

What were you thinking?" Bast said with an odd mixture of confusion and concern. Coat was a long while in answering. "I tend to think too much Bast. My greatest successes tended to come when I stopped thinking and simply did what felt right, even if there was no explantion for what I did.

I took the time to fret uselessly about things I had no control over.

If I think, everything is lost.

One is reminded of the old joke about the centipede who was asked how he managed to coordinate his 100 legs : He started thinking about it and could never walk properly again.

I've had lots of troubles in my life, but most of 'em never happened.