logo

Quotes About Worry

The world is still spinning and so are we and so are you. When the spinning stops - that'll be the time to worry. Not before.
~ John Lennon
You have to understand you cannot have faith and fear at the same time; you can only have one or the other.
~ Napoleon Hill
I'm worried about everything at all times.
~ Odeya Rush
If we took Congress seriously, we would be worrying all the time.
~ Will Rogers
I just don't want you to worry about me, or think you've met me, or waste your time anymore.
~ Stephen Chbosky
Was it still paranoia if all his fears were justified?
~ Margaret Peterson Haddix
Tm worried about my tests.
~ Margaret Peterson Haddix
A very considerate veterinarian once told a friend whose dog was sick that she must remember that animals do not worry, that they have no fear as to what may be ahead when they are sick and that they just take each day as it comes. This is doubtless true of birds as well as animals, and it is a comforting thought.
~ Margaret Stanger
Oh, the dread. The horrible, awful, dreadful, dready dread.
~ Marian Keyes
mind her when I'm away?' I stayed overnight in
~ Marian Keyes
My father was right. He told me once, The creatures want their lives. Every one of them. When this creature has an empty belly, he finds something to put in it. So, no need to worry.
~ Marilynne Robinson
We lost track of which was which, but we were fairly sure that some of the creatures had been borne away still in the darkness of paganism, and that worried us a good deal.
~ Marilynne Robinson
Mothers are like cops. They always believe the worst.
~ Mario Puzo
He was not a bad man, he was a good husband and father, but constant worry about his investments, about the money he earned, about the inevitable expenses that came with being a man of property had worn his nerves to a frazzle so that he was in a constant state of irritation
~ Mario Puzo
It must be asked here: why does the patient go on being worried by this that belongs to the past? The answer must be that the original experience of primitive agony cannot get into the past tense unless the ego can first gather it into its own present time experience….
~ Mark Epstein
most people are almost blind and they don't see most things and there is lots of spare capacity in their heads and it is filled with things which aren't connected and are silly, like, "I'm worried that I might have left the gas cooker on.
~ Mark Haddon
Of all the things to worry about; the Wookie has no pants.
~ Mark Hamill
They say, Write what you know. What do you know? Love, anger, despair, enmity, fear, empathy, lust, worry, trust & more. You know life.
~ Mark Rubinstein
If I've sounded a wee bit overwrought in recent columns, it's because America is seizing up before our eyes. And I'm a little bewildered by how many Americans can't see it. I see that chap at LaGuardia with Don't Tread on Me on his chest and government bureaucrats in his pants. And I wonder if America's exceptional attitudinal swagger isn't providing a discreet cover for the withering of liberty. Sometimes an in-your-face attitude blinds you to what's going on under your nose.
~ Mark Steyn
But he also looked as if by then he knew what worry was, something certainly unknown to him in the past.
~ Anthony Powell
most fears in life rarely come to fruition.
~ Anthony Robbins
There was indeed fear in hoping
~ Anya Seton
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
~ Aristotle
And if you don't like that you can acquaint yourself with the axioms that neither you nor anybody else are the centre of the universe and that what you call complications are simply another name for life itself. Worry is life, and life is worry. And the absence of worry is death.
~ Arnold Bennett