Worry Quotes

Worry was my mother's mechanic, her mechanism for engaging with the machinery of living. Worry was an anchor for her, a hook, something to clutch on to in the world. Worry was a box to live inside of, worry a mechanism for evading the present, for re-creating the past, for dealing with the future.

~ Charles Yu

Roger. Be Safe. We'll be there when we can, over.

~ Kalee Thompson

Worrying was painful .... but compared to the alternative, a privilege

~ Laura Moriarty

Worry in the dark can make it even darker.

~ Camron Wright

Worry is like a squatter: it sneaks in and tries to stay without paying rent! Serve it eviction papers! HS/el

~ Evinda Lepins

It wasn't that the Gospel proved useful for my many worries but that the Gospel proved the uselessness of my worries and so refocused my whole attention.

~ Henri J.m. Nouwen

I wanted to get away,' said she; 'everybody wants to plague and worry me about nothing. They'll be all right tomorrow. What's worrying them?''They are sacrificing to our Canadian God,' said Solly. 'We all believe that if we fret and abuse ourselves sufficiently, Providence will take pity and smile upon anything we attempt. A light heart, or a consciousness of desert, attracts ill luck. You have been away from your native land too long. You have forgotten our folkways. Listen to that gang over there; they are scanning the heavens and hoping aloud that it won't rain tomorrow. That is to placate the Mean Old Man in the Sky, and persuade him to be kind to us.

~ Robertson Davies

But if that was going to happen, it was going to happen whether or not he worried about it.

~ N.d. Wilson

Many of us have been taught to show caring by worrying about the other person, which doesn't truly create closeness because it prompts her to prove that everything is okay with her to ease your discomfort. In addition, we may try to show caring through advising or attempting to fix the other person's problems, which doesn't work for creating closeness because it places you in a superior position, the one who can fix things, seeding resentment in the other person.

~ Kira Asatryan

Claire's face looking pretty and serene, as if she were gifted with a madness that left her ignorant of worry.

~ R.j. Lawrence

Why Worry?If its better when simpler.

~ Mahrukh

Don’t be worried about the future. Live this moment so totally that the next moment comes out of it golden.

~ Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

This is the problem about thinking about something else to take your mind off something. It works for a little while, but in the end you always come back to the thing you were trying not to think about, only now whatever it was is worse.

~ Marcelo Figueras

I should have learned mindfulness, and it’s too late now because it’s no good learning it when you’re already in crisis: you have to start when things are good. But only the very, very oddest would think, Hey, my life is perfect. I know! I’ll sit and waste twenty minutes Observing My Thoughts without Judgement.

~ Marian Keyes

Perhaps the greatest worry of all was that one day you would realize that all the worries of your life amounted to one thing: the desire to just stop worrying.

~ Justin Cronin

My friend, stay positive! It is really good to always stay positive. You don’t really give a damn to negative people, circumstances and things! You only learn lessons from them that can help you take precautions to always stay positive for positive footprints!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Worry leads to worry.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

What worried him worst at the moment - for it is often little things that are hardest to stand - was that his lip was bleeding where they had hit him and he couldn't wipe the little trickle of blood away although it tickled him.

~ C.s. Lewis

It's never too soon to worry. Worry spurs preparation.

~ Laini Taylor

You worry too much. Because you worry not enough.

~ A.e. Kirk

The house was safe again, although a little bit more untidy, but at least Vluffy didn’t have to worry about big nasty two headed roaches chasing him down the hall anymore.

~ Christina Engela

When I really worry about something, I don´t just fool around. I even have to go to the bathroom when I worry about something. Only, I don´t go. I´m too worried to go. I don´t want to interrupt my worrying to go.

~ J.d. Salinger

Smoking does not make one ill, but worrying makes. Drinking two pegs in the evening would not make you ill, but sleeping with tensions and worries would definitely do that.

~ Girdhar Joshi

As we review our worries, we should make it a habit each day to God, what is it I should focus on today?

~ Eddie Capparucci

Worrying about something you can't control has less benefit than a mosquito's existence.

~ Mark Cortes

Try not to worry, for time is a great healer.' Such words were futile.

~ Catherine Cookson

If you have clutter in your real life, your tangible life, then it really adds to the emotional clutter in your mind.

~ Giuliana Rancic

A good antidote to the reasons why you worry is never to worry about the reasons why you worry, for the reasons why you worry will always make you worry about the reasons why you worry

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Worrying about something you can’t control has less benefit than a mosquito.

~ Mark Cortes

I love that you're worried,' she says, 'but you're worried about all the wrong things.

~ Patrick Ness

It all scares me, and it's all like clothes in a dryer that just keep rolling around in my head from one day to the next.

~ Patrick Carman

His childhood passed in quiet anxiety.

~ Jen Pollock Michel

I have decided the two choices open to me are (1) to torment myself or (2) to trust the Lord. There is no earthly solution to the problems that confront me. But I can add to my problems, as I believe I have done, by dwelling on them. So, no more of that.

~ Marilynne Robinson

Worry’s magnetic attraction can only be broken by a stronger attraction, and David is saying [in Psalm 27] we can only find that attraction in God Himself.

~ Edward T. Welch

Yeah, I worry what will happen when we stop running. When we go back to school. When she meets other boys. Boys who don’t argue and snap at her. Boys who don’t obsessively worry about her. Boys that could take her to a movie and stay right until the end, not have to leave halfway through because he started turning into a wolf. But she wouldn’t pick up some random guy in the mall. Ever.So why was I over-reacting? I don’t know. I saw the guy and something ignited in my brain, a flash-fire that burned away reason and common sense. If Simon hadn’t stopped me, I’d have made an idiot of myself and called attention to us. Worse, I’d have embarrassed Chloe. I was over-protective enough as it was. Frothing at the mouth because a guy talked to her? Really not going help us get to that next anniversary.

~ Kelley Armstrong

Worry is a habit that shatters our peace of mind and needlessly drains our energy, a form of mental masturbation without any benefits.

~ Sue Patton Thoele

We ask ourselves: have we made progress? We are almost never aware of it. Only with effort and discipline do we become fully conscious. If we keep a journal, now and then we are startled when we peruse past entries. Worries, fears, preoccupations of the previous year seem to have evanesced. The greatest terrors and strongest urgencies of five years ago now surprise, embarrass, or encourage us. Was this me? Why was it that I could not gauge it as it was lived?

~ John F. Kavanaugh

You’re not responsible for everything. Your brother is an adult. So are Winnifred and Poppy. They agreed with your decision, didn’t they?” “Yes, but Leo wasn’t in his right mind. He still isn’t. And Win is frail, and—” “You like to blame yourself, don’t you? Come walk with me.” She set her empty wine cup at the corner of the stall, feeling light-headed. The second cup of wine had been a mistake. And going anywhere with Rohan, with night deepening and revelry all around them, would be yet another. But as she looked into his hazel eyes, she felt absurdly reckless. Just a few stolen minutes … she couldn’t resist the lawless mischief of his smile. “My family will worry if I don’t rejoin them soon.” “They know you’re with me.” “That’s why they’ll worry,” she said, making him laugh.

~ Lisa Kleypas

Are you worried? Jesus says there is nothing to worry about. It isn’t our kingdom, it’s God’s. We take our cue from the King, and the King is not fretting over anything. He is in complete control.

~ Edward T. Welch

The thing about Americans,” she said, “is that you’re very concerned about everything all the time.

~ Will Schwalbe