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Quotes About Worry

GUILT COULD NOT change the past. Worry could not change the future. And yet, both followed Baden with relentless determination
~ Gena Showalter
Let's not borrow trouble till it's actually here.
~ Genevieve Cogman
J.C.'s friends sometimes wondered why her father was making all that noise. J.C. told them not to worry. That was just her father at work.
~ Geoff Edgers
Forget the past - the future will give you plenty to worry about.
~ George Allen Sr.
What's the use of worrying It never was worthwhile.
~ George Asaf
I want for people not to worry so much. Life ain't going to be perfect, but tings will work out. People come to visit and I always tell them not to worry. If you got something to eat, don't worry, be grateful. Just look at all those books. Those books aren't about food. They're to do with worrying about food.
~ George Dawson
Besides, dragons kidnap virgins, so I'm out." And why had I just told him I was not a virgin? Why did I even go there? "It doesn't matter if I'm the first. It only matters that I'll be the last.
~ Ilona Andrews
Where is your . . . significant other? He's around. He was never too far. Why, are you worried he'll find out about this romantic rendezvous? The vampire froze for a second. What? You're meeting me in secret on a lonely street in the middle of the night . . . Ghastek's voice was so sharp, if it were a knife, I would've been sliced to ribbons. I find your attempts at humor greatly distressing. Hee-hee. I assure you, this is strictly business. Sure it is, sweet cheeks.
~ Ilona Andrews
A familiar pang pierced me, worry mixed with anxiety and a dash of mourning.
~ Ilona Andrews
The door was slightly ajar and Madame Péricand could sense the presence of the other servants outside. Madeleine, the maid, was so beside herself with worry that she came right up to the doorway. To Madame Péricand, such a breach of the normal rules seemed a frightening indication of things to come. It was in just this manner that the different social classes all ended up on the top deck during a shipwreck.
~ Irene Nemirovsky
One lesson I've learned--worry doesn't change tomorrow, it only robs today of its joy.-Charley
~ Irene Hannon
We'll see you through, Martin, said Antonia . . . So do not be guilty or worried, darling Martin. I won't be guilty or worried, I'll be raving mad, I said. I don't want you to see me through. I want to be left alone by both of you at long last.
~ Iris Murdoch
It wasn't our bad habits which really scared us; we got too used to them, they only worried others. It was the odd, unpredictable, brutal impulse you fought to restrain, the one that the rest never even saw and hopefully never would.
~ Irvine Welsh
A fire eater must eat fire even if he has to kindle it himself. And you, Lee, have got to worry even if you must kill yourself to invent something to worry about.
~ Isaac Asimov
Sure you are. You're weak on logic, that's the trouble with you. You're like the guy in the story who was caught in a sudden shower and who ran to a grove of trees and got under one. He wasn't worried, you see, because he figured when one tree got wet through, he would just get under another one. (Lupov)
~ Isaac Asimov
Tal como decía Daniel Belalcázar, no vale la pena sufrir de antemano por las desgracias que posiblemente no ocurrirán.
~ Isabel Allende
I worry a bit about the unknowns when it comes to travelers to the war zones in Syria and Iraq. Who don't I see? And I worry about the people who may be in their basements radicalizing that I can't see.
~ James Comey
I think these difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way that so many things that one goes around worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.
~ Isak Dinesen
Do not think of all your anxieties, you will only make yourself ill.
~ The Shih King
Anxiety is fear of one's self.
~ Wilhelm Stekel
Anxiety is the interest paid on trouble before it is due.
~ Dean William R. Inge
Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.
~ Arthur Somers Roche
There is a difference between a psychopath and a neurotic. A psychopath thinks two and two are five. A neurotic knows that two and two are four, but he worries about it.
~ Anonymous
Worrying helps you some. It seems as if you are doing something when you're worrying.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery