Lauren Oliver Quotes

I'm anxious about work, the future, friendships, past relationships... I'm just one of those people that, whatever I'm doing, it's a big worry.

Uncertainty's not good for anybody.

I worry about everything, which is silly because there's very little you can control anyway.

So perhaps the greatest worry of all was that one day you would realize that all the worries of your life amounted to one thing: the desire to just stop worrying.

I think I'm going to have a lot of trouble.

I'm scared of the unknown future.

My 20s was a sea of worry. I worried about benefit forms, about being thrown out of my flat. I never went on holiday because I thought: 'What if an audition comes up?' I was a nervous wreck.

To some degree we all find life difficult, perplexing, and oppressive. Even when it goes well, as it may for a time, we worry that it probably won't keep on that way.

I get nervous about everything. I think there's something wrong if you don't get nervous.

People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.

I woke up nights, worrying that Lotus was out of control - that no one would know what to do.

The older I get, the more nervous and anxiety-ridden I get. I don't know how to fix that.

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

I am at that age when you panic at the slightest thing.

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.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down.

I am always anxious to know what has happened while I've been asleep.

My only fear is the unknown.

Anything will worry me. I may not get a check for the light bill off in time and I just get to worrying. I'm a worrywart.

I hope, George, that you know what you're doing.

I worried too much when I was a kid.

Algeria keeps me awake at night. What about you?

With every film that you do, you're always so nervous. You feel exposed because you know people will see this eventually. You sort of have to put all that out of your head. What will be will be. But it's nerve wracking.

I think it's the nervousness and the worry that it won't last forever that keeps us working so hard.