Quotes About Worry

I have always had my mum and wife worry about me and ask about retiring - but it was different hearing it from my son.

If you live with a certain amount of dread for your own personal safety every day, that is anxiety.

Drugs scared me.

I'm scared of screwing up my kids.

I'm scared of a lot of things.

I worry about my face not having expression. I've never been known for glamour, so it's probably easier for me than it is for someone who has been known for her incredible beauty and glamour. I always wanted to be Geraldine Page, who was just a fabulous actress with just a nice, normal, expressive face.

There's no fun in a bag if it's not kicked around so that it looks as if the cat's been sitting on it - and it usually has. The cat may even be in it! I always put on stickers and beads and worry beads. You can get them from Greece, Israel, Palestine - from anywhere in the world.

I know what paranoia is like. I know what it is like to worry about what people are saying about you and become obsessed with what people are saying about you.

I've gotten a lot more paranoid in my older age.

I'm sometimes a little bit paranoid.

Anyone who's a parent dreads that call in the middle of the night. I have four grown children and I still dread it.

A connoisseur of woe needs fresh worries from time to time, or he will become complacent.

The nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise and is not preceded by a period of worry and depression.' John Harvey Jones

There's an old Jewish saying: "Two things in the world you absolutely should not worry about: what can be fixed and what cannot be fixed. What can be fixed should be fixed at once, without worry. What cannot be fixed, can't be fixed - so why worry about it?

Worry is like a kettle full of water, it felt as if my mind was on the boil at a ferocious intensity with no opportunity to let off steam. There is nothing you can do but get through it as best you can.

All memories fade away in the end. Then, only dreams are left. And because they are all we have, we confide our life's worries to them.

Those with no problems must find them to use the worry parts of their brains.

Every day my anxiety is higher, every day the grief more mortal. Today more than yesterday terror exalts me…

I'm scared of everything. I think it's only sensible to be that way.

If you are very nervous, it is going to affect you and you start feeling tired or anxiety sets in.

All bad things are exaggerated in the middle of the night. When you lie awake, you only think of bad things.

I've learnt that from stand-up - you should always worry that it's going to go badly, otherwise you're too laissez faire.

TRY: Noticing the resistance to the impulse to give, the worries about the future, the feeling that you may be giving too much, or the thought that it won't be appreciated "enough," or that you will be exhausted from the effort, or that you won't get anything out of it, or that you don't have enough yourself.

if you're beginning to feel worried that you may be a psychopath, if you recognize some of those traits in yourself, if you're feeling a creeping anxiety about it, that means you are not one.