Worry Quotes

“For every evil under the sun,
There is a remedy, or there is none.
If there be one, try and find it;
If there be none, never mind it.”
― Mother Goose Rhymes, Mother Goose Rhy Color

“Q: When is the perfect time? A: Who can say, but probably somewhere between haste and delay - and it's usually most wise to start today.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“Let your cares drive you to God. I shall not mind if you have many of them if each one leads you to prayer. If every fret makes you lean more on the Beloved, it will be a benefit.”
― Charles H. Spurgeon

“Worrying doesn't make any difference, but working does and spirituality gives one the strength to work”
― Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

“We are, perhaps uniquely among the earth’s creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take the idea of dying, unable to sit still.”
― Lewis Thomas

“You worry about hurting me, but you never seem to worry about me hurting you. And I’m the one with the killer touch.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Cursed

“I was terrified of death by the time I was three or four, actively if not lucidly. I had frequent nightmares about snakes and scary neighbors. By the age of four or five, I was terrified by my thoughts. By the time I was five, the migraines began. I was so sensitive about myself and the world that I cried or shriveled up at the slightest hurt. People always told me, "You've got to get a thicker skin," like now they might say, jovially, "Let go and let God." Believe me, if I could, I would, and in the meantime I feel like stabbing you in the forehead. Teachers wrote on my report cards that I was too sensitive, excessively worried, as if this were an easily correctable condition, as if I were wearing too much of the violet toilet water little girls wore then.”
― Anne Lamott, Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers

“The way to misuse our possessions is to use them as an insurance against the morrow. Anxiety is always directed to the morrow, whereas goods are in the strictest sense meant to be used only for to-day.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship

“...I'm constantly agitated, restless - I work moments like worry beads until I see your face...”
― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain

“We imagine that a little anxiety and worry is an indication of how wise we really are; it may be an indication of how wicked we really are.”
― Oswald Chambers, God's Workmanship

“The best way to get rid of the negative thoughts is to crowd them out with something else bigger and more beautiful: worship of the One who holds everything in His powerful and capable hands.”
― Jocelyn Green, Faith Deployed...Again: More Daily Encouragement for Military Wives

“Don't panic. Say, Hey, no problem. Run a hand through your hair like the whiteboys do even though the only thing that runs easily through your hair is Africa.”
― Junot Díaz, Drown

“Instinctively I started to panic when Dr. Martinez strapped my arm down, and
then the panic just melted away, la la la.
Someone took my other hand. Fang. I felt his calluses, his bones, his
strength.
“I’m so glad you’re here,” I slurred, smiling dopily up at him. I took in
his startled, worried expression but dismissed it. “I know everything’s fine
if you’re here.”
I thought I saw his cheeks flush, but I wasn’t too sure of anything anymore.”
― James Patterson

“Dwell in the past, worry about the future and find misery in the present.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman, Veterans of the Psychic Wars

“Don’t worry about the little stuff. None of it matters. Only love matters. If you remember this, that love is always present; it will be a good life”
― Bronnie Ware, The Top Five Regrets of the Dying: A Life Transformed by the Dearly Departing

“It is no good worrying about things that are out of your hands”
― Matt Thomas

“Don't go looking for worry. It finds you on its own.”
― Autumn Jordon, Perfect

“Rather than having regrets over events in the past, or worrying whether or not the future will bring you what you need or desire, allow yourself to rest in the present, the now. Understand that all that has transpired has brought you to this moment, and in this very moment, riches that far outweigh those of the world already lie within you.”
― Kristi Bowman

“One of life's great truths is this: when one is about to be struck by a speeding six-hundred pound Coke machine, one need worry about little else.”
― Stephen King

“If you would stop worrying about things you don’t control and release what God has put into you, you will change everything around you.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“Greater is Your care for me than all the care I am able to take from myself.”
― Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ

“Worry is absence of faith.”
― Paul Palnik, Eternaloons: The Palnik Anthology

“Worry is down payment on a problem that hasn't happened. Trust Jesus!”
― Jarrid Wilson

“Paranoia is at most annoying!”
― Anthony Liccione

“Worry acts like a squatter, sneaks in and tries to stay without paying rent!" EL.”
― Evlinda Lepins

“Petunia only ever went to the doctor reluctantly, and her motive in doing so was always the same: she did it in order to feel less anxious about things. The doctor was supposed to make the worry go away; she did quite enough worrying without actually having something to worry about. When she came out feeling no less anxious, as this time, something had gone wrong. The basic contract had been broken.”
― John Lanchester, Capital

“She inhaled a worry. She exhaled a prayer." Mary Lou Quinlan, author”
― Mary Lou Quinlan

“Let's worry like mad. Shall we start on a worldwide basis and work down to ourselves, or start with ourselves and spread?"

"I'm going to do me-and-Peter and that dead man."

"All right. I'm just going to do a wee one about Bunny and then I'll join you. Always creeping around telling tales and stealing people's tights! How can anyone be that scrofulous and live? Now if somebody bumped him off, that would make sense.”
― Pamela Branch, The Wooden Overcoat

“I had not the least idea of a gamekeeper's occupation being so dangerous - there had never been such a person employed on the Longbourn estate - and just as I had spent half the previous night wondering about Peter, I spent half the next one worrying about him.”
― Jennifer Paynter, Mary Bennet

“My native tense is future conditional, a low simmer of unspecified worry being the usual condition.”
― Michael Pollan, Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation