Quotes About Worry

The statements that make people mad are the ones they worry might be believed. I suspect the statements that make people maddest are those they worry might be true.

Worry is absence of faith.

I guessed it was a migratory bird, too innocent to be wary of the spiders in the jungle grass. It worried be to think that we were a little like that bird

I could tell he was worried by what I would ask to do next. I spent the rest of the day trying to elude him and his deputy, and at last, in the market, I succeeded. It was late in the afternoon. We were all (Mr. Fang, his deputy, the driver and I) admiring a stack of vegetables, and when I saw they were transfixed by a shaggy mound of blue cabbages I slipped away.

Yes, my mind was wandering. I wished I were there with someone who could bring peace to my heart someone with whom I could spend a little time without being afraid that i would lose him the next day. With that reassurance, the time would pass more slowly. We could be silent for a while because we'd know we had the rest of our lives together for conversation. I wouldn't have to worry about serious matters, about difficult decisions and hard words.

Over-anxiety ultimately banishes every trace of joy from life.

But human beings are like that, she thought. We've replaced nearly all our emotions with fear.

We've replaced nearly all our emotions with fear

It's as if you were in a spaceship going to the moon, and you looked back at this tiny planet Earth and realized that things were vaster than any mind could conceive and you just couldn't handle it, so you started worrying about what you were going to have for lunch. There you are in outer space with this sense of the world being so vast, and then you bring it all down into this very tiny world of worrying about what's for lunch... We do this all the time.

It occurred to her, in a moment of sudden clarity, that what had always caused her anxiety, or stress, or worry, was not any one force, nothing independent and external- it wasn't danger to herself or the constant calamity of other people and their problems. It was internal: it was subjective: it was not knowing.

We've become a nation of indoor cats, he'd said. A nation of doubters, worriers, overthinkers. Thank God these weren't the kind of Americans who settled this country. They were a different breed! They crossed the country in wagons with wooden wheels! People croaked along the way, and they barely stopped. Back then, you buried your dead and kept moving.

The art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of our great men. —Capt. J. A. Hatfield

Anxiety results from the perception of danger. You can't feel anxious unless you tell yourself that something terrible is about to happen.

Yes, I'm paranoid — but am I paranoid enough?

I felt the sort of soaring, ceilingless tedium that transcends tedium and becomes worry.

Charles Tavis knows what James Incandenza could not have cared about less: the key to the successful administration of a top-level junior tennis academy lies in cultivating a kind of reverse-Buddhism, a state of Total Worry.

YES, I'M PARANOID—BUT AM I PARANOID ENOUGH?

Knowing that internal stress could cause failure on the exam merely set up internal stress about the prospect of internal stress.

I think I was very often bored as a child, but boredom is not what I knew it as—what I knew was that I worried a lot

I fear this feeling more than I fear anything, man. More than pain, or my mom dying, or environmental toxicity. Anything.

It's like he's frozen on this anxiety, unable to move on to more advanced anxieties.

Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie.

Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.

Best safety lies in fear.