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Worry Quotes - Page 63

want won't kill you half as quick as worry will.

Zora Neale Hurston (1995). “Zora Neale Hurston: Novels and Stories: Jonah's Gourd Vine / Their Eyes Were Watching God / Moses, Man of the Mountain / Seraph on the Suwanee / Selected Stories”

Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.

Washington Irving (1842). “A History of New-York: From the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty : Containing Among Many Surprising and Curious Matters, the Unutterable Ponderings of Walter the Doubter, the Disastrous Projects of William, the Testy, and the Chivalric Achievements of Peter, the Headstrong--the Three Dutch Governors of New Amsterdam : Being the Only Authentic History of the Times that Ever Hath Been Or Ever Will be Published”, p.157

Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.

Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1987). “Les misérables”, Dutton Adult

I used to be more paranoid and stressed, constantly worrying about my Plan B. But the truth is I don't have one.

"Uma Thurman says her life is like a reality TV show as she promotes new movie The Life Before Her Eyes". www.mirror.co.uk. March 27, 2009.

I worry constantly and obsess over things, but I just don't let fear stand in the way of doing something that I really want to do.

"Tom Ford's Home on the Range". Interview with Lisa Eisner, www.gq.com.au. January 25, 2012.