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Quotes About Worry

Paranoid?" she inquired solicitously. "Getting more so by the minute. Having Mad Emperor Yuri in my family tree doesn't help a bit. I'm always wondering if I'm starting to come down with his disease. Can you be paranoid about being paranoid?" She smiled sweetly. "If anyone can, it's you.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Grocery shopping, Kira's gaze raked over him. Well, honey, one thing about it, I don't think you have to worry about buying beef while you're out. It looks like you have plenty in residence as it is.
~ Lora Leigh
It had started to worry me that if I wasn't careful my meekness could become a habit, a tic, something hardwired that my mannerisms would continue to express throughout my life regardless of my efforts - the way a drunk who, though in the wagon, still staggers and slurs like a drunk.
~ Lorrie Moore
But if all we have to do is worry," chides the Mother, "every day for a hundred years, it'll be easy. It'll be nothing. I'll take all the worry in the world, if it wards off the thing itself.
~ Lorrie Moore
When you believe that your fear has more power than God, your fear is sinful.
~ Lou Priolo
It seems to me that the more money one has the more one worries about little unimportant things.
~ Louis L'Amour
What worried him the most, however, wasn't that it was too late. What worried him the most, what really ate at his insides, was the fear that it wasn't too late.
~ Louis Sachar
I've been so bothered with my property, that I'm tired of it, and don't mean to save up any more, but give it away as I go along, and then nobody will envy me, or want to steal it, and I shan't be suspecting folks and worrying about my old cash.
~ Louisa May Alcott
But I am afraid I don't
~ Louisa May Alcott
Why in the world should you spend your money, worry your family, and turn the house upside down for a parcel of girls who don't care a sixpence for you? I
~ Louisa May Alcott
Many terrible things begin with B: blindness, boilers, bats, bridges, and brain tumors. But no one brings any of those to a party to up the fun quotient. When I look at a balloon, all I see is an imminent explosion. Where's the fun in that?
~ Roz Chast
It's the cold fish dying in your stomach feeling. You try to forget about it, but as soon as you do, the fish starts flopping around under your heart and reminds you that something truly horrible is happening.
~ Ruth Ozeki
It's the cold fish dying in your stomach feeling. You try to forget about it, but as soon as you do, the fish starts flopping around under your heart and reminds you that something truly horrible is happening.
~ Ruth Ozeki
Do all kids have to worry about their parents' mental health?
~ Ruth Ozeki
Let me assure you that my intent is not to offend or merely be provocative. I'm simply worried.
~ Sam Harris
The problem is that most people, most of the time, are desperate to believe ridiculous and divisive ideas for patently emotional reasons,and while rarely explicit what they're really worried about is death
~ Sam Harris
We grasp at transitory pleasures. We brood about the past and worry about the future. We continually seek to prop up and defend an egoic self that doesn't exist.
~ Sam Harris
Any person who lies awake at night worrying about the private pleasures of other consenting adults has more than just too much time on his hands; he has some unjustifiable beliefs about the nature of right and wrong.
~ Sam Harris
Man's strength is but little, and futile his concerns.
~ Simonides of Ceos
I think I was like [a game of] skittles, knocked apart by this wooden ball, and there's a strength to that: you're not too self-conscious about what you're doing, so you're not too worried about it.
~ David Toop
Stress and worry is a residual of relying on yourself and being your own god, in control of everything. Worship allows us to rely on God's power to steer us through life.
~ T. D. Jakes
If the problem can be solved why worry? If the problem cannot be solved worrying will do you no good.
~ ??ntideva
If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it.
~ George Burns
Worry is worthless. It can't change the past or control the future. It only spoils the moment.
~ Darrin Patrick