Quotes About Worry

Here I was, locked inside this creepy old library with a monster, and I was worried about getting scolded for being late for dinner!

Because I knew it was happening again.

I'm worried he's going to...do something crazy. He lives in a hole in the ground, dresses funny and occasionally eats his assistants, Eve said. Define crazy . Claire closed her eyes. Okay. I think he wants to put my brain in a jar and wire it into the machine. Dead silence.

You're seriously going to worry about what people think right now? No, I'm worrying about people taking pictures and putting them on Facebook. That crap never dies. Kind of like you, Mikey. Michael, straight-faced, said, He's got a point, because I would definitely take pictures. So would you. Eve had to grin. Yeah, I would. Okay, then. But you'd look glam. I could fix you up with silver eye shadow to match.

No I'm worrying about people taking pictures and putting them on Facebook. That crap never dies. Kind of like you Mikey.

I'm worried he's going to . . . do something crazy. He lives in a hole in the ground, dresses funny, and occasionally eats his assistants, Evesaid. Define crazy. Claire closed her eyes. Okay. I think he wants to put my brain in a jar and wire it intothe machine.

I'm more worried about you, she said. You and trouble... yeah. She heard the smile in his voice. We're like that.

How can you not be concerned that I might have cancer?" I ask. "I found a lump on my breast." Touch it, Ely. Touch it. "Lie. Not only are you biting your lip, which you always do when you lie, but your mom told me about the alleged lump in the elevator this morning. The doctor said it was an overgrown pimple." Monkeys!

We make so many of our own troubles, from mere mishaps to disasters, by dwelling on the possibility of them until the possible becomes inevitable.

What we fear too much we often bring to pass.

I trusted providence to prevent a sneeze, refused to worry, declined to dwell on negative possibilities, and I did not sneeze, did not sneeze, still did not sneeze, but then I farted.

Bleachy ozone tingled in my sinuses, but I trusted providence to prevent a sneeze, refused to worry, declined to dwell on negative possibilities, and I did not sneeze, did not sneeze, still did not sneeze, but then I farted.

What's dropped your heart into your shoes?

Without faith to act as a governor, the human mind is a runaway worry generator, a dynamo of negative expectations.

What does worry accomplish, except to breed more worry.

Tension, apprehension, and dissension

It was human nature to obsess on negatives, to worry the smallest of sparks into infernos.

disquietude

Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, and faith looks up.

WORRY serves no useful purpose is of no value and doesn't change a thing.

I don't think you need to worry about me marrying Jack," she assured him. He parked at the curb and cut the engine and then said the oddest thing. "Good." Good? He didn't want her to remarry? What a strange reaction, considering that he'd been married to Marge for fourteen years.

When we worry," Drew continued, "we take reality and move it into the realm of fiction. What is real is transferred into the land of monsters and dragons, which seem far bigger and more frightening than they really are.

She was guilty, after all, of success, a success that stemmed from birthright and privilege. She took hope for granted, saw opportunity as her due, and had never really had to worry about vanishing into a sea of unseen faces and unseen voices.

I didn't say you shouldn't worry, do you think I don't worry? But no, you probably can't do anything about me.' 'Well, maybe no, Sassenach, and maybe so. But I've lived a long enough time now to think it maybe doesna matter so much-- so long as I can love you.' -Claire & Jamie Fraser