Quotes about worry
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Meher Baba (1894–1969) Indian mystic

Lord Meher http://www.lordmeher.org/index.jsp?pageBase=page.jsp&nextPage=6742, by Bhau Kalchuri, pp. 5770, 5970, 6742. The famous Bobby McFerrin song was based on this phrase often used by Meher Baba. Variants: Don't Worry; be Happy! Remember Me; I will help you. As quoted in Showers of Grace (1984) by Bal Natu, p. 92 Do your best, then don't worry, be happy. Leave the rest to me. As quoted in The Homeopathic Revolution : Why Famous People and Cultural Heroes Choose Homeopathy (2007) by Dana Ullman, p. 367. General sources Variant: Don't worry, be happy.

Happiness

“So I saw that there was only me. There was only me who could worry about what was happening here, inside these walls of my life. Other people had their own worlds to worry about, and in the end, they had to fend for themselves, just like us.”

Markus Zusak (1975) Australian author

Source: Underdog

Life, People, World

“I think you don't grow up until you stop worrying about other people's purposes or lack of them and find the purposes you believe in for yourself.”

Orson Scott Card book Xenocide

Source: Xenocide

People, Thinking

“It's amazing that something as simple as a kiss can overpower the worst of worries.”

Neal Shusterman book Unwind

Source: Unwind

Kiss

“I am worried about our tendency to over invest in things and under invest in people.”

John Kenneth Galbraith (1908–2006) American economist and diplomat

People

“Worrying doesn't make any difference, but working does and spirituality gives one the strength to work”

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (1956) spiritual leader

“Hoping to Fall Out:
Leaning out as far as she can, hoping she'll fall soon, so she can stop worrying about whether it will happen or not.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

Hope

“When I begin to doubt my ability to work the word, I simply read another writer and know I have nothing to worry about. My contest is only with myself, to do it right, with power, and force, and delight, and gamble.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Reading

“Once you decide not to worry about that stuff anymore, dating and relationships and love and all that, it's like you're free to get on with real life.”

David Nicholls book One Day

Source: One Day

Love, Life

“In the end, we get older, we kill everyone who loves us through the worries we give them, through the troubled tenderness we inspire in them, and the fears we ceaselessly cause.”

Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) German literary critic, philosopher and social critic (1892-1940)

Love, Fear

“Mr. Sagunuma: We can never escape who we are. Instead of wasting time worrying about it, why don't you cut to he chase and love yourself?”

Bisco Hatori (1975) Japanese manga artist

Source: Ouran High School Host Club, Vol. 4

Love, Time

“The only thing a cat worries about is what's happening right now. As we tell the kittens, you can only wash one paw at a time.”

Lloyd Alexander (1924–2007) American children's writer

Source: Time Cat

Cats, Time

“Or - perhaps - I should just worry about my own behavior and let others be who they are.”

Louise Penny (1958) Canadian woman writer

Behavior

“Tonight I'm happy. I will worry about tomorrow when tomorrow comes. But I'm getting there…”

Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist

Happiness

“Why worry about minor little details like clean air, clean water, safe ports and the safety net when Jesus is going to give the world an "Extreme Makeover: Planet Edition" right after he finishes putting Satan in his place once and for all?”

Arianna Huffington (1950) Greek-American author and syndicated columnist

World, Water

“Here," she said. "This is for you."
"I didn't really get you anything," I sputtered. "I mean, I didn't know that you were going to be here, and--"
"Don't worry. It's your embarrassment at not having the thought that counts.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

“Remember? Ohh, I wouldn't do that! Remembering's dangerous. I find the past such a worrying, anxious place.

"The past tense", I supposed you'd call it. Ha ha ha.”

Alan Moore book Batman: The Killing Joke

Source: Batman: The Killing Joke

Past

“There are so many more important things to worry about than how you're perceived by strangers.”

Dennis Lehane (1965) Novelist

“Simon watched a kelpie skip past, carrying a glass of blue fluid, and raised an eyebrow.
“It’s not like Magnus’s party,” Isabelle reassured him. “Everything here ought to be safe to drink.”
“Ought to be?” Aline look worried.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

Drink, Past

“He was a worried man (I'm stretching the term a bit here, I know. By now, in his mid to late teens, he might just about have passed for a man. When seen from behind. At a distance. On a very dark night).”

Jonathan Stroud book Ptolemy's Gate

Source: Ptolemy's Gate

Night

“When things are perfect, that's when you need to worry most.”

Drew Barrymore (1975) American actress, director and producer

Perfection

“If you're doing your best, you won't have time to worry about failure.”

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (1940) American writer

Failure, Time

“There's so many problems in our world, so much negativity. Don't worry about the darkness — turn on the light and the darkness automatically goes.”

David Lynch (1946) American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor

On the Alex Jones Radio show, as quoted in "David Lynch Questions 9/11 On National U.S. Radio" in Prison Planet (25 January 2007)
Source: Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity
Context: There's so many problems in our world, so much negativity. Don't worry about the darkness — turn on the light and the darkness automatically goes. Ramp up the light of unity within — help do that for yourself, help do that for the world and then we're really doing something, we're doing something that brings that light of unity.

World, Problem, Light

“My sister, with her ratty red-highlighted hair and her linen pajamas and her combat boots—how could she possibly worry about being possessed by a goddess? What goddess would want her, except the goddess of chewing gum?”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

Sister

“In the end, I worry that my arrogance shall destroy us all.”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Source: The Final Empire

“You're cute when you're worried," she muttered. "Your eyebrows get all scrunched together."

You aregoing to die while I owe you a favor," I said. "Why did you take that knife?"

You would've done the same for me.”

Rick Riordan book The Last Olympian

Source: The Last Olympian

“I looked at Rachel. "You're not going to do anything stupid, are you? I mean…. you talked to Chiron, right?"
She managed a faint smile. "You're worried aboutdoing something stupid?”

Rick Riordan book The Last Olympian

Source: The Last Olympian

Stupidity, Smile

“Mercy," he said,"in a fair fight between near equals, I'll back you every time. It's the demons, vampires, and river devils I worry about, and I'm working on that.”

Patricia Briggs book River Marked

Source: River Marked

Time, Fight

“Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all thirty feet tall.”

Larry Wilde (1928) American comedian

Variant: Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall

Children, Tree, Christmas

“Worry drains the mind of its power and, sooner or later, it injures the soul”

Robin S. Sharma (1965) Canadian self help writer

Source: The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams Reaching Your Destiny

Soul

“Emotions come and go and can't be controlled so there's no reason to worry about them. That in the end, people should be judged by their actions since in the end it was actions that defined everyone.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Last Song

Source: The Last Song

People

“Worry is a waste of emotional reserve".”

Ayn Rand book The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

“Dont worry, Roza, I'm not afraid. I'll take whatever heat they give me over being with you. It's worth it.”

Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice

Source: Last Sacrifice

“When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Universe

“Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain't got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.”

William Faulkner book Light in August

Source: Light in August

Courage, Time

“I was too busy fighting the river to worry about adjusting my beliefs in accordance to reality.”

Patricia Briggs book River Marked

Source: River Marked

Business, Reality, Fight

“I'm not worried about tomorrow, because God is there already, waiting for me.”

Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra

Source: Manuscript Found in Accra

God, Waiting

“Sometimes I am afraid for people like you who have to know things. Your kind will dig and hunt and worry at it until one day you will find what is hidden, waiting for you.”

Isobelle Carmody book Obernewtyn

Source: Obernewtyn

People, Waiting

“I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worries and only half the royalties.”

Agatha Christie (1890–1976) English mystery and detective writer

People, Books

“It’s good for you to think of this, son. Ponder. Worry. Stay up nights, frightened for the casualties of your ideology. It will do you good to realize the price of fighting.”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Source: Steelheart

Thinking, Fight, Night

“…the amount of maintenance involving hair is genuinely overwhelming. Sometimes I think that not having to worry about your hair anymore is the secret upside of death.”

Nora Ephron (1941–2012) Film director, author screenwriter

Source: I Feel Bad about My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman

Death, Secret, Thinking

“What worries me is, what if this guy is really the one for me and I just haven't had enough therapy yet for me to be comfortable with having found him.”

Carrie Fisher book Postcards from the Edge

Source: Postcards from the Edge

Guy

“He took one look at me and said, ‘Damn, you cleaned up better than I thought you would.’ (Grace)
I worry about the men of your time, Grace. They all seem to be great fools. (Julian)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon Fantasy Lover

Source: Fantasy Lover

Men, Fools, Time

“I have lost my smile,
but don't worry.
The dandelion has it.”

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist

Source: Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

Smile

“… You can only subject people to anguish who have a conscience. You can only punish people who have hopes to frustrate or attachments to sever; who worry what you think of them. You can really only punish people who are already a little bit good.”

Lionel Shriver book We Need to Talk About Kevin

Source: We Need to Talk About Kevin

People, Hope, Thinking

“Don't worry, chief. We've got these Tualaghi surrounded - from the inside."
"Exactly," Erak replied dryly.”

John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower

“Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday.”

Ann Brashares The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

Source: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

“Ryoji: It's either that she doesn't know how to lean on someone or she's simply that selfless. She won't give me a space to worry about her. Beyond that, she'll protect others instinctively.”

Bisco Hatori (1975) Japanese manga artist

Source: Ouran High School Host Club, Vol. 4

“If I gave my mother a knitted scarf she'd be worried I was wasting my time doing stupid stuff like knitting instead of school work. Presenting a homemade knitted object to my parents was actually like handing them a detailed backlog of my idleness.”

Mindy Kaling book Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

Source: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

Stupidity, School, Parent, Time

“The baboon is driving,” I noted. “Should I be worried?”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

“No I'm worrying about people taking pictures and putting them on Facebook. That crap never dies. Kind of like you Mikey.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Ghost Town

People

“Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Wise, Time

“Don’t worry. I won’t send you off without warning. Just stand there and be awed by my beauty. It’s the safest mode around me. (Savitar)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Dark Side of the Moon

Beauty

“Why are you hanging around, then? Aren't you worried about getting hit?"
"Aw, you'd never hurt me. My face is too pretty.”

Richelle Mead Shadow Kiss

Source: Shadow Kiss

Hurt

“It doesn’t seem right? Another part of him wondered, Since when do I worry about what’s right?”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

Source: The Blood of Olympus

Parting

“You could put your confusion and upset and worries into whatever book you were reading. You could sort of set them down in there, and you could come out with your head on a little straighter. I don't why stories worked that way, but they did.”

Deb Caletti (1963) American writer

Source: The Story of Us

Books, Way, Reading

“The threads of circumstance that lead to tomorrow are so tenuous that all the fussing and worrying about decisions is futile compared to the pure randomness of existence.”

Nick Bantock (1949) British artist

Decision

“Fred: "Is that brick wall your boyfriend?"
Doug: "Only in my dreams."
Fred: "Oh, you too? I'm Fred."
Doug: "Doug. I should mention, in all fairness though that Christy's boyfriend is my best friend. He's the brick wall you should be worried about.”

Robin Jones Gunn (1955) American writer

Source: A Time to Cherish

Dreams

“Sometimes I think I won't ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand. Three more days to get through until I don't have to worry about life anymore.”

Gillian Flynn book Sharp Objects

Source: Sharp Objects

Life, Feeling, Thinking

“I always love seeing what worries you. Strigoi? No. Questionable food? Yes.”

Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice

Source: Last Sacrifice

Love, Food, Question

“To live is to have worries and uncertainties. Keep them inside, and they will destroy you for certain--leaving behind a person so callused that emotion can find no root in his heart.”

Brandon Sanderson Elantris

Source: Elantris

Heart, Personality

“Someday is someday, and maybe it will be or maybe it won't. This is a human thing, to worry about things that may or may not come to be. You can't eat meat until you've killed it.”

Robin Hobb book Assassin's Quest

Source: Assassin's Quest

“You needn't worry about your appearance, my dear, because true beauty springs from the heart and dwells in the eyes.”

Judith McNaught (1944) American writer

Source: Something Wonderful

Beauty, Spring, Appearance, Heart

“If you think God’s there, He is. If you don’t, He isn’t. And if that’s what God’s like, I wouldn’t worry about it.”

Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore

Source: Kafka on the Shore (2002), Chapter 30, Colonel Sanders
Context: Listen- God only exists in people's minds. Especially in Japan, God's always been kind of a flexible concept. Look at what happened after the war. Douglas MacArthur ordered the divine emperor to quit being God, and he did, making a speech saying he was just an ordinary person. So after 1946 he wasn't God anymore. That's what Japanese gods are like-they can be tweaked and adjusted. Some American chomping on a cheap pipe gives the order and presto change-o - God's no longer God. A very postmodern kind of thing. If you think God's there, He is. If you don't, He isn't. And if that's what God's like, I wouldn't worry about it.

God, Thinking

“help conquer the IQ shortage worry less and think more”

Robert Anton Wilson book The Illuminati Papers

Source: The Illuminati Papers

Thinking, Help

“Do not worry about tomorrow until you have to.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Longest Ride

Source: The Longest Ride

“Out there things can happen, and frequently do,
To people as brainy and footsy as you.
And when things start to happen, don't worry, don't stew.
Just go right along, you'll start happening too!”

Dr. Seuss Oh, the Places You'll Go!

Oh, the Places You'll Go! (1990)
Source: Oh, The Places You'll Go!

People

“In terms of evolutionary history, it was only yesterday that men learned to walk around on two legs and get in trouble thinking complicated thoughts. So don't worry, you'll burn out.”

Haruki Murakami book The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Men, History, Thinking, Learning

“A small fact:
You are going to die…. does this worry you?”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Variant: ***HERE IS A SMALL FACT***
You are going to die.
Source: The Book Thief

“Don't Worry, Be Hapi.”

Rick Riordan (1964) American writer

“You're cute when you're worried, your eyebrows get all scrunched together.”

Rick Riordan book The Last Olympian

Source: The Last Olympian

“If I look upon my whole life, I cannot think of another time when I felt more comfortable: when I had no worries, fears, or desires, when my life seemed as soft and lovely as lying inside a cocoon of rose silk.”

Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

Source: The Joy Luck Club

Love, Life, Fear, Lying

“I’ve learned not to worry about what might come next.”

Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist

Learning

“Don't worry. You're safe now. You've got nothing left to steal.”

Joan D. Vinge book Catspaw

Source: Catspaw

“If privacy had a gravestone it might read: “Don't Worry. This Was for Your Own Good.””

John Twelve Hawks book The Dark River

Source: Fourth Realm Trilogy (2005-2009), The Dark River (2007)

Reading

“Destiny is a worrying concept. I don't want to be fated, I want to choose.”

Jeanette Winterson (1959) English writer

Source: Written on the Body

Fate

“Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago? How did they work out? Didn't you waste a lot of fruitless energy on account of most of them? Didn't most of them turn out all right after all?”

Dale Carnegie (1888–1955) American writer and lecturer

“Individual human beings are all tools, that the others use to help us all survive.” “That’s a lie.” “No. It’s just a half truth. You can worry about the other half after we win this war.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

War, Truth, Lie, Help

“I don't want to care. If I care about things, it'll just be worse, it'll just be another thing to worry about. It's less painful if I don't care.”

Bret Easton Ellis book Less Than Zero

Source: Less Than Zero

Pain, Sad

“I always worried someone would notice me, and then when no one did, I felt lonely.”

Curtis Sittenfeld book Prep

Source: Prep

“To me faith means not worrying”

John Dewey (1859–1952) American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer

Faith

“Donʹt worry now about what you canʹt change. Rest when you can so youʹll be ready for tomorrowʹs battles”

Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice

Source: Last Sacrifice

Change

“Beneath all of her thoughts and worries, beneath the complication of conflicting identities and needs, maybe it's as simple as loving the way some other person looks when they're sleeping.”

Joe Meno The Great Perhaps

Source: The Great Perhaps

Love, Way, Sleep, Personality

“Because that was what you did with family when you'd been worried about them, you grabbed them and held on to them and told them how much they'd pissed you off, and it was okay, because no matter how angry you got, they still belonged to you.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

Family

“It's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written.”

Judy Blume (1938) American children's writer

As quoted in Literature for Today's Young Adults (1997) by Kenneth L. Donelson and Alleen Pace Nilsen, p. 392
Context: It's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.

Books

“Logical thinking keeps you from wasting time worrying, or hoping. It prevents disappointment. Imagination, on the other hand, only gets you hyped up over things that will never realistically happen.”

Jodi Picoult book House Rules

Source: House Rules

Hope, Disappointment, Imagination, Thinking

“I know you have nothing to worry about. I wasn't in love with Mark. I'll never be in love with anyone again who isn't you.”

Cassandra Clare book Lord of Shadows

Source: Lord of Shadows

Love

“Pride is allowed to have an element of worry, especially when you are a mother.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Two Boys Kissing

“i worried he'd let go, but he didn't. We held hands like this the whole rest of the way home.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: It's Not Summer Without You

Way, Home

“And when things start to happen, don't worry, don't stew.
Just go right along, you'll start happening too!”

Dr. Seuss Oh, the Places You'll Go!

Oh, the Places You'll Go! (1990)
Context: Out there things can happen, and frequently do,
To people as brainy and footsy as you.
And when things start to happen, don't worry, don't stew.
Just go right along, you'll start happening too!

“What about you, Sage? I know we don't have to worry about you violating the dress code. Did you have fun at your Alchemist spa this weekend?”

Richelle Mead book The Golden Lily

Source: The Golden Lily

“Jace hated it when other people were worried on his behalf. It made him feel like maybe there really was something to worry about.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

Hate, People, Feeling