Seneca the Younger Quotes

It is foolish to conjure up woe where none exists.

Just as Daniel Balalcazar said, it makes no sense to suffer in advance a misfortune that may never occur.

Some people, no matter how robust their stock portfolios or how healthy their children, are always mentally preparing for doom. They are just born worriers, their brains forever anticipating the dropping of some dreaded other shoe.

Most things I worry about never happen anyway.

Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.

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

I'm always on the worrying side.

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

I have spent most of my life worrying about things that have never happened.

And think what worrying does: has anyone ever added a single hour to the length of his life by worrying about it?

If you fixate on the worst-case scenario and it actually happens, you’ve lived it twice.

Worrying is imagining that which you don't want.

It is folly to anticipate evils, and madness to create imaginary ones.

Worry is a dividend paid to disaster before it is due

Worrying is just a prayer for the worst possible scenario.

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

Ninety per-cent of what we worry about never happens, yet we worry and worry. What a horrible way to go through life! What a horrible thing to do to your colon!

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.

I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

I think of bad news as a huge bird, with the wings of a crow and the face of my Grade Four school teacher, sparse bun, rancid teeth, wrinkly frown, pursed mouth and all, sailing around the world under cover of darkness pleased to be the bearer of ill tidings, carrying a basket of rotten eggs, and knowing- as the sun comes up- exactly where to drop them. On me, for one.

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

I'm a worst-case scenario person. I'm only interested in a story because I kind of go, like a magnet, to the worst thing that can happen.

To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.

Anxiety is experiencing failure in advance. Tell yourself enough vivid stories about the worst possible outcome of your work and you'll soon come to believe them. Worry is not preparation, and anxiety doesn't make you better.

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