James Altucher Quotes

I can't ever seem to shake the feeling that when things are really good it essentially means that things are going to go really bad. When I feel calm and settled, there is always an underlying feeling of impending doom... I don't think that it's healthy.

I've had a lifelong waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop feeling when something good happens.

Welcome to fear, said Moist to himself. It's hope, turned inside out. You know it can't go wrong, you're sure it can't go wrong... But it might.

I'm scared of the unknown future.

I fear the future.

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.

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.

If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.

My dark secrets are life threatening. Pockets of unhappiness set in aspic that build and build. I have this primitive feeling that if something good happens, it is going to be followed by something bad. There is always a price to pay.

Uncertainty's not good for anybody.

Most of the things we are afraid will happen never do. Something to think about.

When things go well I'm always looking for the next hiccup.

I'm always on the worrying side.

Uncertainty always creates doubt, and doubt creates fear.

I'm scared about everything. I'm an anxious worrier. I worry about the downside of everything.

I never think I'm safe. I always live in fear I will lose.

In doubt, fear is the worst of prophets.

If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.

While there's life, there's fear.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

Fear of the unknown is a terrible fear.

I am always worried when someone says, 'This is perfect.'

I'm scared of everything. I think it's only sensible to be that way.

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

Dangers bring fears, and fears more dangers bring.