198 Quotes About Worrying

You always were such a worrier. It was as if you thought your worrying was all that held the world together, and if you stopped for a split second the whole thing would just fly apart.

(My ability to turn good news into anxiety is rivaled only by my ability to turn anxiety into chin acne.)

If you worry because bad things might happen, you suffer from the things that are yet to happen. If they don’t happen, it means you suffered for nothing and if they do happen, it means you suffered for nothing again

Well, he continues, if I could give you any bit of advice worth its salt, I'd tell you what I wish someone would have told me when I was your age.And what would that be?Stop worrying all the time.

If worrying were an Olympic sport, she thought ruefully, she’d have at least one gold medal, for sure.

If it won’t matter in a year or two, it’s not worth the worry.

It is one of the fruits of wisdom not to sweat even the big stuff.

Faith is illumination, faith is light. Worry, on the other hand, is darkness.

It is a great disadvantage to spend one’s time worrying about what may go wrong. When things do go wrong, one would think that worry would’ve prepared one in some way. This is not the case. Instead, the senseless disorder of one’s thoughts grows more and more uncontrollable as one rehearses the events that befell, to no good effect since nothing can undo the damage, no amount of muddled thinking can ever result in any other outcome.