Philip Pullman Quotes

The older I get, the more nervous and anxiety-ridden I get. I don't know how to fix that.

Most of the things I worried about in life never happened.

I would say off the cuff that I am an anxious person. I worry about everything. I need to know everything. I tend to live in a state of anxiety with the feeling that life is some kind of great catastrophe.

Quit worrying about your health. It will go away.

I highly recommend worrying. It is much more effective than dieting.

When you try to worry about missteps and all that kind of stuff, that's not the healthiest way to be.

Ninety per-cent of what we worry about never happens, yet we worry and worry. What a horrible way to go through life! What a horrible thing to do to your colon!

Anxiety is loves greatest killer.

Worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum.

Unfortunately, on one or both of my shoulders sits lots of anxiety and that is a controlling factor in my life.

Most men have worried about things which never happened, and more men have been killed by worry than by hard work.

Worry means the mind is controlling you. Worry is always pointless. A solution never comes out of worry.

Anxiety is the illness of our age. We worry about ourselves, our family, our friends, our work, and our state of the world. If we allow worry to fill our hearts, sooner or later we will get sick.

WORRYING does not take away tomorrow's TROUBLES, it takes away today's PEACE.

So 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.

I really don't know what to do when my life is not chaotic.

Worrying can be a kind of caring, and as such is a healthy part of a balanced emotional life.

I'm anxious about work, the future, friendships, past relationships... I'm just one of those people that, whatever I'm doing, it's a big worry.

I'm a worrywart, so I'm always a bit more stressed out than I should be or wish I was.

'What if?' statements throw fuel on the fire of stress and worry. Things can go in a million different directions, and the more time you spend worrying about the possibilities, the less time you'll spend focusing on taking action that will calm you down and keep your stress under control.

Why would you live your life worrying about something that's not going to happen?

I would dearly love to resist the temptation, if you can call it that, to worry. It's boring, it's anti-social, it's unproductive and it's depressing.

I worry about everything, which is silly because there's very little you can control anyway.

I think the stress will kill me. I think it will be the stress.

I was so stressed, man. When I was 17, I was so worried about what the hell was going to happen.