Robin Marantz Henig Quotes

I worry a lot. I'm a catastrophizer by nature.

I can't ever seem to shake the feeling that when things are really good it essentially means that things are going to go really bad. When I feel calm and settled, there is always an underlying feeling of impending doom... I don't think that it's healthy.

I've had a lifelong waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop feeling when something good happens.

I'm always on the worrying side.

Some of the worst things in my life never even happened.

Whenever things are good, I always worry about what could go wrong.

I'm a worry-wart, I'd say.

It's hard for me to be happy because I'm always worried about something going awry or what could happen to screw it up. It's hard for me to sit and look around, going, 'Ah, I'm really happy.' I'm not that kind of person.

Most things I worry about never happen anyway.

I'm one of those people who lies awake all night and worries about all the horrible things that can go wrong, whether a comma was wrong.

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

I'm scared about everything. I'm an anxious worrier. I worry about the downside of everything.

All worry is fear-based.

I'm such a worrier.

I'm a worrier by nature. My husband says that if I'm not worried about something, I'm worried about what I've forgotten to be worried about.

Worrying is imagining that which you don't want.

I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.

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

Convince yourself that worrying about many situations will make them worse rather than improve them.

Worrying makes you cross the bridge before you come to it.

I worry too much.

I'm always thinking 'Don't mess this up.'

I have always worried about things more than I should.

I'm a bit of a worrier, to an extreme. I'll crack a joke, then worry if I've offended someone - even when they're laughing. I have a guilt complex, always worrying.

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