Worry Quotes

Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom sharpen the sensitivity and assure the presence of tension that is necessary to preserve human existence.

~ Rollo May

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck and ask anyone the house is never burgled and the ship never goes down.

~ Jean Anouilh

Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being.

~ Paul Tillich

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

~ Soren Kierkegaard

Anxiety is fear of one's self.

~ Wilhelm Stekel

Fear ringed by doubt is my eternal moon.

~ Malcolm Lowry

Worries go down better with soup than without.

~ Jewish Proverb

Neurotic means he is not as sensible as I am and psychotic means he's even worse than my brother-in-law.

~ Karl Menninger

Anxiety is the interest paid on trouble before it is due.

~ Dean William R. Inge

Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.

~ Arthur Somers Roche

There is a difference between a psychopath and a neurotic. A psychopath thinks two and two are five. A neurotic knows that two and two are four but he worries about it.

~ Anonymous

Worrying helps you some. It seems as if you are doing something when you're worrying.

~ Lucy Maud Montgomery

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces. Never will the world know all it owes to them nor all they have suffered to enrich us.

~ Marcel Proust

For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation.

~ Thornton Wilder

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

~ Howard Aiken

If there were rankings for press conferences, I wouldn't have to worry about dropping out of the top five, I hope.

~ Andy Roddick

Don't worry about what the people say; be yourself, say what you want to say with respect.

~ Mariano Rivera

There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.

~ Bertrand Russell

I never worry about people not taking my work seriously as a result of the humor. In the end, the comic's best trick is the illusion that comedy is effortless. That people imagine what he's doing is easy is an occupational hazard.

~ Richard Russo

There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.

~ Robert Benchley

Don't settle; don't compromise. Freeze your eggs, get your sociology doctorate, worry more about war and pestilence and the incredible inequality of geographical birth than finding your soulmate.

~ Nia Vardalos

If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.

~ H. Jackson Brown

Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something.

~ James Dyson

Fact: From quitting smoking to skiing, we succeed to the degree we try, fail, and learn. Studies show that people who worry about mistakes shut down, but those who are relaxed about doing badly soon learn to do well. Success is built on failure.

~ Martha Beck

As an outside; don't worry about failure, because failure will take care of itself. Focus on success.

~ Henry Cavill

Life is difficult for everyone; everyone has bad days. Everyone has trouble in their life, because it doesn't matter how rich you are: Sickness and trouble and worry and love, these things will mess with you at every level of life.

~ Domhnall Gleeson

My perfect guy wears converse, is totally laid back, and doesn't worry about being cool.

~ Selena Gómez

The thing is, it's not uncool to worry about people who seem like they're going on the wrong path. There's nothing cool about being self-destructive.

~ Patti Smith

It's not uncool to worry about people who seem like they're going on the wrong path. There's nothing cool about being self-destructive.

~ Patti Smith

I used to worry about being cool. Now I realize that I genuinely don't care.

~ Charli Xcx

I just worry about myself. I'm just gonna be me and do me. If people appreciate it, cool. If not, I'm gonna still be me.

~ Robbie Lawler

I have a huge ego - I know that. Do I worry about it? No, I think it's cool. I have a lot of fun.

~ Kim Dotcom

I'm not good at anything except writing jokes. I wasn't good at sports, I wasn't good at anything artsy, ever. I think there was a real worry for a while about what I would be good at. I was just this chubby little Indian kid who looked like a nerd.

~ Mindy Kaling

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.

~ Dale Carnegie

Don't worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.

~ Ice Cube

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

~ Robert Frost

You knew how humiliating that is as an experience for celebrities to be less of a celebrity. There's no class to adjust to being less famous, and you don't think you have to worry about it. But you do.

~ Carrie Fisher

I meet people who are in movies, and the stuff that they write is terrible, but nobody tells them that because they're famous. So I worry that my stuff might be like that, too.

~ Jesse Eisenberg

Forget the past - the future will give you plenty to worry about.

~ George Allen

By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry.

~ Jack Dempsey