Quotes About Overthinking

I barely ever reread the chapter before posting, because I overthink things, and I feel like overediting or trying to use too many words can ruin the story.

If I make assumptions about the audience and start overthinking things, I can drive myself crazy about how the audience perceives me. I try not to do that anymore.

I overthink everything. I'm just like, 'Wait, why do they want to hear me?' I start doubting myself. Other times, I'll just get so emotional during a song. Sometimes I'll cry while I'm singing. It's so weird. I'm such a baby.

You look confused," said Adrian. I shook my head and sighed. "I think I'm just overthinking things." He nodded solemnly. "That's why I try to never do it.

I can't shut my brain off. It's like a hamster wheel." ~ Justin

He was a deep thinker from an early age; it was a problem that would plague him throughout his life - he could be overly sensitive and prone to thinking about things too much.

Do 'ifs' really make Flutterbudgets? I think the 'ifs' help, he answered seriously. Foolish fears, and worries over nothing, with a mixture of nerves and ifs, will soon make a Flutterbudget of any one.

Instead of eating too much, I'm thinking too much and I need to throw up some of these thoughts before something vile happens.

Don't play the what-if game, Grace. You'll lose every time.

All worrying will do is make you live through the misery twice.

Worry is not the same as fear; it's the practice of indulging fear, clinging to it, feeding and serving

You could waste your whole life worrying, you know that?

I think that a lot of the time, we get in our own heads and make up what other people are thinking, but no one actually cares about the thing you think they care about. You just gotta take that weight off your shoulders and be nice to yourself and be yourself. People will fall in love with who that is.

Public speaking is not something my mind and body are able to do easily. I sweat profusely with shaky hands to match a voice that sometimes cracks. I wake up in the middle of the night obsessing over what I said and if it sounded weird or if I shouldn't have said that.

I criticise myself an awful lot. I do worry to the point that I don't think it's very healthy. I'm always picking my flaws. It's a terrible anxiety I have. I wish I could pretend nothing fazes me, but it does.

Football is a game. And sometimes I think about it way too much over situations that could be, you know, deadly.

I think it's harder to forgive ourselves for mistakes that we made because we keep dwelling on it. We want to know how it affects other people, if they liked us for it, if they didn't like us. I think we stress over it, we replay it in our mind. It becomes an old tape that years later we continue to play it in our mind.

Anxiety, the next gumption trap, is sort of the opposite of ego. You're so sure that you'll do everything wrong you're afraid to do anything at all…You fix things that don't need fixing, and chase after imaginary ailments. You jump to wild conclusions and build all kinds of errors into the machine because of your own nervousness. These errors, when made, tend to confirm your original underestimation of yourself.

If you think too much about a thing, it is no longer innocent even if, in truth, it began that way

Only the fearful mind goes to catastrophic fantasies.

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.

Most of my life has been one tragedy after another, most of which hasn't happened.

At night when I'm lying awake because my brain won't shut off due to all there is to think about.

I'm definitely a person who worries too much over every little thing.