Quotes About Worry

The trouble is that I have grown accustomed to worrying about you.

You know how people say, Don't borrow trouble? Well, said Morgan, I guess it's the opposite of that. Doc is borrowing happiness.

You aren't worried about tomorrow, are you?" "What do you think?" He propped himself up on his elbows and studied my face. "You told me last spring it was the easiest thing in the whole wide world. You could hardly wait to jump. Why, even when you got sick you worried you'd die without having a chance to do it." "I must have been a raving lunatic," I muttered.

The two more useless words in the English language - Don't worry.

Exposed to the world for what she was; numbed with worry and fear; trying to answer the question... The same question the police had thrown at her over and over seven years ago.....Where are the Children?

The first stone represents the past—worries, bad memories, remorse. Understand?" "I do," I say. "The second stone stands for the present. The third pebble is a wish for the future.

Worry lives a long way from rational thought.---Self

What does this tell us about sharks? Should women be worried? Hard to say. How crazy are sharks for seal meat? Do dead groupers smell like used tampons? Unknown. I'd stay in my deck chair, if I were menstruating you.

I dared not advance, dreading a thousand nameless evils that made me tremble, although I was unable to define them.

You're overthinking it.' 'I have anxiety. I have no other type of thinking available.

So much of anxiety was anxiety about having anxiety.

Anxiety is very accommodating. Minutes ago, Stevie's anxiety was all about failure. It neatly converted itself into worry about places called Bounce Houses and not having hot water or air-conditioning. It was perfectly ready to bring the snakes to the party. It's a big tent. All problems are welcome.

It makes you very cool, he said, taking big, jumping steps to get in front of me. CNN would interview you, for sure. Daughter of Flobie! But don't worry. I'll keep them back!

Why was she so anxious? Because she had anxiety.

Worry is a waste of emotional reserves. Very foolish. Unworthy of an enlightened person. Since we are merely the creatures of our chemical metabolism and of the economic factors of our background, there's not a damn thing we can do about anything whatever.

The man was starting to get on my nerves. I asked him if he ever worried about becoming too calculating, if the idea of probing people's psyches and gaining their trust just to build an organization ever felt manipulative. He sighed. "I'm not a poet, Barack. I'm an organizer.

I don't see kids smiling around here no more. You look at 'em listen to 'em… they seem worried all the time, mad about something. They got nothing they trust. Not their parents. Not God. Not themselves. And that's not right. That just ain't the way things supposed to be… kids not smiling

This is why we have families.... So we never have to go a single day without worrying ourselves sick.

Willa believed in the power of worry to keep another human from flying out of orbit.

I stayed scared about the bus for a whole week. And last night when my mother tucked me into bed, I still felt sickish about it.

After all, to worry, at a minimum you have to care.

there's no sense worrying about what you can't control. Doing that is a good way to go crazy.

Recuerda, hoy es el mañana acerca del cual te preocupabas ayer. DALE CARNEGIE, ESCRITOR

People who are motivated away from things often experience a lot of pain and worry before they're motivated to act.