John Ruskin Quotes

Most things I worry about never happen anyway.

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

There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.

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

So many people worry about something that never actually happens and you spend all your time worrying and living in fear.

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

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

Worrying is using your imagination to create something you don't want.

Imaginary evils soon become real ones by indulging our reflections on them; as he who in a melancholy fancy sees something like a face on the wall or the wainscot can, by two or three touches with a lead pencil, make it look visible, and agreeing with what he fancied.

Worries find you easily enough without inviting them.

Don't spend a lot of time imagining the worst-case scenario. It rarely goes down as you imagine it will, and if by some fluke it does, you will have lived it twice.

I worry too much.

It only seems as if you're doing something when you worry.

I have an advanced degree in procrastination and another one in paranoia.

Your mind always does worse things than people can show in a movie.

I have always worried about things more than I should.

It is a queer thing, but imaginary troubles are harder to bear than actual ones.

In general, I think I'm quick to worry about disasters of all kinds.

Your mind can do wonders, so scary movies are not the healthiest for me because it does freak me out.

I'm totally an anxious mess all the time. There's a constant dialogue going on in my brain, and it's just reminding me of all the failures that I have had, and all of the things I need to do, and all of the things I'm not doing good enough.

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.

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

I overthink a lot of things.

If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious.

Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.