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Quotes About Fret

The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret. [Fred. Free.]
~ Terry Pratchett
was always me worrying about Chloe
~ Kate White
Full with frets I die, but not slain by you. My chest drains itself, painlessly. Is all this not blood? Oh, Lord—it's dew! The dawn, weeping, washes over me.
~ Gabriele d'Annunzio
I can make you blind and senseless to them, but it'll be in your nature to fret about that strange emptiness. As if you're always on the edge of realization, but never able to reach it. It could drive you to distraction, Acquitor. Besides, the body remembers. You'll react to things you see, smell, taste, and you won't know why. It'll gnaw away at you. Your whole personality will change.
~ Steven Erikson
Often, the very fact that you are worrying about something means that it isn't likely to happen.
~ Gavin de Becker
None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
~ Samuel Johnson
But I still don't have knowledge, interpreting the surprises that others don't know about, that will drive a new narrative. You have to work and think and stress and fret to surmise the surprises by first fathoming the pulse.
~ George Gilder
O fret not after knowledge - I have none, and yet my song comes native with the warmth. O fret not after knowledge - I have none, and yet the Evening listens.
~ John Keats
Intelligent people, as some say, in their openness, are indeed slow to criticize, but conversely, in their openness to the concerns of others, the genuine are slow to fret about being criticized.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza. Worry: Something to make you unnecessarily ill.
~ Idries Shah, Caravan of Dreams
This is the monkey mind of which Zen speaks: the mind that worries, doubts, frets about the past, makes lists, all the time chattering like a monkey.
~ Patricia Monaghan
The fields are fair in autumn yet, and the sun's still shining there, but we bow our heads and we brood and fret, because of the masks we wear, Or we nod and smile the social while, and we say we're doing well, But we break our herts! For the things we must not tell.
~ Henry Lawson
do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, yet you cannot play upon me.
~ William Shakespeare
Call me what instrume you will,though you can fret me,yet you cannot play upon me.
~ William Shakespeare
The most futile thing a man can do is to ponder the alternatives, to stew and fret over the life that might have been lived if circumstances had not pointed his future in a certain direction.
~ William Styron
Ah, why should tears the pale cheek fretFor aught that waneth here below.Let go, let go!
~ Herman Melville
I yawned and I stretched. I sure was needing some sleep, but I guess I'm always in need of sleep like I'm always in need of food. Because my labors were mighty ones--ol' Hercules didn't know what hard work was--and what is there to do but eat and sleep? And when you're eatin' and sleepin' you don't have to fret about things you can't do nothing about. And what else is there to do but laugh an' joke...how else can you bear up under the unbearable?
~ Jim Thompson
The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Have you been bolstering up that stupid soul of yours with the idea that your circumstances are too much for God? Put all "supposing" on one side and dwell in the shadow of the Almighty. Deliberately tell God that you will not fret about that thing. All our fret and worry is caused by calculating without God.
~ Oswald Chambers
When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
TOWARD THE END OF the summer I accidentally overheard a conversation that shook me out of my state of blissful ignorance. When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
I took the time to fret uselessly about things I had no control over.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.
~ Patrick Rothfuss