Steven Wright Quotes

Sometimes when you are trying not to think about something it keeps popping back in your head you can't help it you think about it and think about it and think about it until your brain feels like a squashed pea.

I'll let myself obsess over things.

I didn't think much about that statement then. But later I would-I still do. I think about it and think about it until I think I'm going crazy.

I think I, like a lot of people, have that type of brain where I find it interesting or fulfilling to worry about something.

If you sit there and dwell on the fact that you did something... you will lose your mind.

I over-think stuff a lot.

I have a mind that never stops working. As a matter of fact, it torments me.

I get anxious about a lot of things, that's the trouble. I get anxious about everything. I just can't stop thinking about things all the time. And here's the really destructive part - it's always retrospective. I waste time thinking of what I should have said or done.

I think so much about everything. I'm obsessive.

Once you start worrying, it's hard to stop.

I would say I'm too guilty of dwelling on things too long.

I just can't turn off the part me that asks that question over and over.

Try not to think too often, you'll only hurt yourself

Worry is simply thinking the same thing over and over again and not doing anything about it.

The mania of thinking renders one unfit for every activity.

Or is it that I think too much?

I couldn't bear to think about it; and yet, somehow, I couldn't think about nothing else.

I feel sorry for players who are always lying awake at night, brooding over their games.

I'm just thinking all the time. There are times when I don't really need to think. You know what I mean? If you think about stuff for five hours, you really only need to do like five minutes and the rest of sort of rehashing it and dramatically going over it.

There are times when thinking about something is the worst possible policy.

Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe.

When I turned two I was really anxious, because I'd doubled my age in a year. I thought, if this keeps up, by the time I'm six I'll be ninety.

It had that kind of open-ended fear to it - like that feeling you get when you're driving and you see a cop. And you're not speeding. You don't have drugs. But you're just thinking, I hope he doesn't notice I'm driving.

It was Adam Appleby's misfortune that at the moment of awakening from sleep his consciousness was immediately flooded with everything he least wanted to think about

I am wired on some deep level to seek out something to be worried and obsess about.