Quotes About Worry

My kids are my life and the thought of someone taking them away from me is my worst nightmare.

For most of my life, I was a worrier and an over-thinker. I had pretty bad social anxiety.

I was a little worried that the familiarity would be a little weird, but I think for me everything is musical in my life. For me, timing is a rhythm.

I suffer from the sense that everything good in my life is about to go away.

Worry, whatever its source, weakens, takes away courage, and shortens life.

So perhaps the greatest worry of all was that one day you would realize that all the worries of your life amounted to one thing: the desire to just stop worrying.

Most of the things I worried about in life never happened.

While there's life, there's fear.

I'm watching the Weather Channel more than I've ever watched it. I'm scared to death it's going to rain.

Don't worry, chief. We've got these Tualaghi surrounded - from the inside." "Exactly," Erak replied dryly.

Oh dear, oh deary me!" Thorn said in a ridiculous falsetto voice. "What are we going to do? It's twelve big hairy guardsmen and Mahmel in a natty green hat." It was all very well to joke about it, Hal thought, but the situation was serious.

Let's get something to eat." It was the best way he could think of to stop Horace worrying about his daughter.

They'd still be outnumbered by the pirates, he thought. But then a savage grin lit his face. Being outnumbered didn't worry him. They were Skandians, after all.

The Lawyer went down to the dressing room before a match, only to catch Platini puffing on a cigarette. 'That worries me,' Agnelli said to Platini. Instantly, a riposte came back. 'You only need to worry if he starts smoking,' said Platini, pointing at Massimo Bonini, the tireless midfield ball-winner in that Juventus team.

For me it's important to be in balance. To not let fear get in the way of things, to not worry so much about protecting yourself all the time.

That tendency...to lie awake between the hours of two and four, when the chrysalis of faint misgiving becomes so readily the butterfly of panic.

I'm constantly agitated, restless - I work moments like worry beads until I see your face...

Money cannot buy happiness, but it buys the conditions for happiness: time, occasional freedom from constant worry, a moment of breath to plan for the future, and the ability to be generous.

People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.

The neurotic rich, as one doctor he knew used to term his clientele. The worried well.

Una pesadilla es algo de lo que puedes despertar...pero los pensamientos y las ideas que permanecen después de que tus terrores hayan desaparecido son algo bastante peor.

Far too many policies President Reagan enacted during his two terms boasted this "Don't Worry, Be Happy"/"Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid" schizophrenia.

We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.

Petunia only ever went to the doctor reluctantly, and her motive in doing so was always the same: she did it in order to feel less anxious about things. The doctor was supposed to make the worry go away; she did quite enough worrying without actually having something to worry about. When she came out feeling no less anxious, as this time, something had gone wrong. The basic contract had been broken.