Worry Quotes

You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.

~ Walter Hagen

Worry about your own neck. Don’t waste time worrying what others may or may not think. If someone is rude, if they disrespect you, recognize that this is an issue with them and not you. Don’t let it change how you behave. Be the same kind, loving and compassionate person as always. Don’t fuel the negativity. Always strive to carry peace in your heart, wherever you go. It will help to keep you in a positive frame of mind.

~ Akiroq Brost

Ain't you thinkin' what's it gonna be like when we get there? Ain't you scared it won't be nice like we thought?No, she said quickly. No, I ain't. You can't do that. I can't do that. It's too much - livin' too many lives. Up ahead they's a thousan' lives we might live, but when it comes, it'll on'y be one.

~ John Steinbeck

Have you ever worried about something so much that it becomes debilitating? But when you finally accept there’s nothing you can do, when your choices are taken away, fear dissolves and you can finally relax…and perhaps even enjoy?

~ Brownell Landrum

Temperamentally anxious people can have a hard time staying motivated, period, because their intense focus on their worries distracts them from their goals.

~ Winifred Gallagher

Mix a little time with some space, and suddenly good things fall right into place. No worries, don't doubt it - just build!

~ T.f. Hodge

Worry is itself an illness, since worry is an accusation against Divine Wisdom, a criticism of Divine Mercy.

~ Bediüzzaman Said Nursî

A finger beckons.My choice is to turn away.It is a mistake.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

It's a waste of time worrying about something that worry won't fix. It's about as useful as trying to feed your pet rock.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

I wondered about my inner child. In fact, I was troubled. Did I even have an inner child, I asked myself, given that, in essence, I’d just been born?

~ Sol Luckman

You're trying to eat grass that isn't there. Why don't you give it a chance to grow?

~ Richard Adams

He realized that, despite the dangers and alarms of the day, waiting was perhaps the worst thing of all.

~ Dan Abnett

Don't worry about it. The right thing will come at the right time.

~ Danielle Steel

The shadow of the passions of the moment transversed this grand and gentle spirit occupied with eternal things.

~ Victor Hugo

We periodically return to the throne of God for a transfusion of reality. It helps us recall that the redemption of mankind doesn't depend on us. Sometimes we lose sight of that. A visit back to the throne also reminds us of the One who loves us and that he is in charge. All this helps to remove a self-imposed burden from our backs.

~ Dennis Garvin

In the immediate vicinity, there might well be stability and peace. In the garden, a breeze may be swaying the branches of the plum tree and dust may slowly be gathering on the bookshelves in the living room. But we are aware that such serenity does not do justice to the chaotic and violent fundamentals of existence and hence, after a time, it has a a habit of growing worrisome in its own way.

~ Alain De Botton

Worry adds no hours to a day, nor happiness to a smile, so it is not worth succumbing to, especially when it obscures the sight of potential.

~ Johnathan Jena

Worrying is carrying tomorrow's load with today's strength- carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.

~ Corrie Ten Boom

Her forehead was a maze of anxious little grooves, from a lifetime of wondering about whether everyone within range was OK.

~ Tana French

He might have been encased in a thick glass bubble, so separate did he feel from his three dining companions. It was a sensation with which he was only too familiar, that of walking in a giant sphere of worry, enclosed by it, watching his own terrors roll by, obscuring the outside world.

~ J.k. Rowling

When I don't have something to worry about, I worry. Nothing comes so naturally to a human being as anxiety and worry.

~ Brian Richardson

I watch worry and anxiety being pandered to through technology which is neutral.

~ Brian Richardson

Many things can cause us to worry, but a kind word or deed can do wonders. Sometimes that's all we need to feel better.

~ Kate Klise

All those years when Ronni thought she was sick, all those years convinced that every mole was melanoma, every cough was lung cancer, every case of heartburn was an oncoming heart attack, after all those years, when the gods finally stopped taking care of her she wasn't scared. What a pity, she thought after the doctor first diagnosed her. Then, when she refused to believe it, after the second, and the third, agreed, she thought again, what a pity I wasted all those years worrying about the worst. Somehow now that the worst was upon her, it was peaceful, calming, as if this was what she had always been waiting for. Now that it was here, it wasn't scary at all.

~ Jane Green

Be thankful when you find yourself worrying about the smallest things, for it often means there aren't any bigger things to truly worry about.

~ Joyce Rachelle

I think there’s something wrong with my lungs. Maybe I have an allergy or hay fever. I think it might even be a fracture they forgot to fix. I worry about it a lot. I can picture the broken rib impaling my lungs, my heart.

~ Jinat Rehana Begum

Nothing conquers the chaos around me like the calm assurance that I am at peace with God.

~ Ron Brackin

Standing alone, walking my own path. Rearranging my thoughts. Pushing worries away. Climbing out of the fog, towards freedom of mind.

~ Tinaj. Richardson

What delicious abandon in the sleep of the child. Where do we lose it?

~ Frank Herbert

A man may follow vanity as truly in the counting-house as in the theatre. If he be spending his life in amassing wealth, he passes his days in a vain show.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

It's because the door hasn't been closed yet that the nightmares still find their way in.

~ Joyce Rachelle

Because we have only one (life) we go about blundering along him nervous haste.

~ John Taliaferro

You're so haunted by other people's futures that you forget, the only future you cannot see is your own.

~ Minority Report (Tv Show)

Don't say I'm a worrier and this is just who I am....or I've always been a worrier, I can't help it; instead decide from this day forward to become someone who DOESN'T worry.

~ Miya Yamanouchi

No amount of regret can change the past. No amount of anxiety can change the future.

~ Karen Salmansohn

Scripture assumes that we will be afraid and anxious sometimes. What is important is where we turn, or to whom we turn when we are afraid. The God who calls you to trust in Him when you are afraid will spend a great deal of time showing you that you can trust Him.

~ Edward T. Welch

[I]n spite of her work as a reference librarian, she discovered that life isn't about knowing all the answers. The best we can do is make peace with our questions, learn who we are, know our strengths, and do the best we can with the gifts we've been given while we're here.

~ Kate Messner

If you smell fear - bite on it, it can't bite back.

~ T.f. Hodge

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

~ Michel De Montaigne

If I can trust the word of a friend, why do I question the word of the God of the universe? Go figure. Sin is truly bizarre. [Running Scared, p. 111]

~ Edward T. Welch