Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes

In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.

Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

Worry itself is one of the most painful conditions.

I know firsthand how agonizing waiting can be.

I was extremely timid and to be made to feel that I was not wanted, although in a place where I had every right to be, even months afterwards caused me sometimes weeks of pain. Every time any one of these disagreeable incidents came into my mind, my heart sank, and I was anew tortured by the thought of what I had endured, almost as much as the incident itself.

Stress is a form of suffering.

Worry is one of the most destructive scourges of mankind.

Not treasured wealth, nor the consul's lictor, can dispel the mind's bitter conflicts and the cares that flit, like bats, about your fretted roofs.

Among those evils which befall us, there are many which have been more painful to us in the prospect than by their actual pressure.

Worry is a form of fear.

I drag myself out of nightmares each morning and find there's no relief in waking.

Evils come not, then our fears are vain; And if they do fear but augments the pain.

He sobbed in desperation at the burden of fear he carried with him every day of his life.

Any expectation is what pain is.

Somehow the anticipation of pain can be even more troubling, more a misery than the pain itself.

Now it is nothing but torture.

Blues fallin' down like hail And the day keeps on worryin' me There's a hell hound on my trail.

Fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.

He who foresees calamities, suffers them twice over.

I spent four days and four nights just covered in blood, falling in the water.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

Everybody has their burdens, their grief that they carry with them.

What can be more stupid than to be in pain about future things and absent ones which at present are not felt?

What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?

I had my bully, and it was excruciating. Not only the bully, but the intimidation I felt.