Jessica Brown Findlay Quotes

I don't like to say anything good. I feel like I'll jinx myself.

My feeling about fears is, if you voice your fears, they may come true. I'm superstitious enough to believe that.

You'll find superstition a contagious thing. Some people let it get the better of them.

I think we are intrinsically prone to being irrational and superstitious. A lot of it comes from our fear of the unknown and the fear of a lack of control over our fate.

There is scarcely an occurrence in nature which, happening at a certain time, is not looked upon by some persons as a prognosticator either of good or evil. The latter are in the greatest number, so much more ingenious are we in tormenting ourselves than in discovering reasons for enjoyment in the things that surround us.

Ooooh," Kate groans, Kate herself now. "I'm so afraid." "I know." "What am I going to do?" "You mean right now?" "Yes." "We'll go to my car. Then we'll drive down to the French Market and get some coffee. Then we'll go home." "Is everything going to be all right?" "Yes." "Tell me. Say it." "Everything is going to be all right.

I'm scared of myself. I think I'd be a bad driver. I'm scared of cars, period. I've had too many friends killed now, and I've seen too many people killed in my life when I drove across the country when I was 12. I'm sure that has a lot to do with it. If you see a few real dead bodies with brains on the pavement, it does a lot to change your attitude. It means you can get it too. I've had a lot of relatives killed. I've had a lot of dear friends killed. It's stupid. The whole activity is stupid.

Fear paints pictures of ghosts and hangs them in the gallery of ignorance.

Suspicion often creates what it suspects.

You are so addicted and you have become so habituated that you cannot allow the cup to be empty even for a single moment. The moment you see emptiness anywhere you start filling it. You are so scared of emptiness, you are so afraid.: emptiness appears like death. You will fill it with anything, but you will fill it.

Worry is negative goal setting.

A peasant can no more help believing in a traditional superstition than a horse can help trembling when be sees a camel.

When you imagine mistakes, there can be no self-defense.

I'm superstitious a little bit.

When perfectionism is driving us, shame is riding shotgun and fear is that annoying backseat driver!

The only thing worried thoughts have the power to change is what the next thing will be for you to worry over!

My mind goes to tragedy first.

The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.

The future will be what it will, and fretting about it will only make your fears more likely to come true.

Worrying is just a prayer for the worst possible scenario.

If you scare somebody enough, they stop being rational.

In the daily lives of most men and women, fear plays a greater part than hope: they are more filled with the thought of the possessions that others may take from them, than of the joy that they might create in their own lives and in the lives with which they come in contact. It is not so that life should be lived.

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.