Rebecca Solnit Quotes

I don't know what anxiety is like anymore.

You can't sit there and worry about everything.

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

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

Nothing in the world causes so much misery as uncertainty.

Everything I ever worried about turned out exactly as it was going to, despite my anxious moments to the contrary.

When someone doesn't show up, the people who wait sometimes tell stories about what might have happened and come to half believe the desertion, the abduction, the accident. Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don't--and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we prefer ugly scenarios to the pure unknown. Perhaps fantasy is what you fill up maps with rather than saying that they too contain the unknown.

Worrying is just a prayer for the worst possible scenario.

I'm scared of the unknown future.

If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious.

Most things I worry about never happen anyway.

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 stress, worry, get nervous and I start to over-think about a lot of things, but I think a little bit of doubt and nervousness always keeps me on my feet.

Asuka is just insane, and she has such a different background and things I've never seen before, so I'd say I'm a little bit more worried of Asuka because I don't know much about her.

As usual, my mind is spinning in circles...is it me? Am I making mountains out of molehills? Being too analytical? Worrying about nothing? Being emotional?

Has worrying about tomorrow every changed it?

Stop being scared of the unknown, because anything I worried about didn't happen. Other stuff happened. The unknown, we can't do anything about.

Fear is the workout we give ourselves imagining what will happen if things don't work out. . . . Worry is our effort to imagine every possible way to avoid the outcome that is causing us fear, and failing that, to survive the thing that we fear if it comes to fruition.

Worry is a cloud which rains destruction.

I could worry about pretty much anything you put in front of me, so I'm not actually sort of anti-technology. So it doesn't sort of come out of that. It's not like a fear of the future. It's a fear of everything.

Thou hast seen many sorrows, travel-stained pilgrim of the world, But that which hath vexed thee most, hath been the looking for evil; And though calamities have crossed thee, and misery been heaped on thy head, Yet ills that never happened, have chiefly made thee wretched.

We fear only what we haven’t understood.

In doubt, fear is the worst of prophets.

Worrying is imagining that which you don't want.

You're scared of what you can't control