Catastrophic Thinking Quotes

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

Everyone, deep in their hearts, is waiting for the end of the world to come.

We suffer more in imagination than in reality.

What you fear most will happen to you - that is the law.

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

Expect the worst and that's what you'll get only it will be much worse.

Well, that's why smart people get tripped up with worry and fear. Worry...fear...is just a misuse of the creative imagination that has been placed in each of us. Because we are smart and creative, we imagine all the things that could happen, that might happen, that will happen if this or that happens. See what I mean?

To fear to face an issue is to believe that the worst is true.

Worry over what has not occurred is a serious malady.

It's not the problem that causes our suffering; it's our thinking about the problem.

...All I want to talk about is the oncoming apocalypse in my brain.

What's the worst that can happen? A tidal wave? Glaciers with guns?

In doubt, fear is the worst of prophets.

You have a 12-foot fence. You know what'll happen? Thirteen foot ladders.

If I think, everything is lost.

What does worry accomplish except to breed more worry?

My mind goes to tragedy first.

I'm kind of this control freak that likes to create his own hells before the real one can get to him

The main trouble with despair is that it is self-fulfilling.

Most fears in life rarely come to fruition.

Worry is negative goal setting.

What happens with fear is that probability doesn't matter very much. That is, once I have raised the possibility that something terrible can happen to your child, even though the possibility is remote, you may find it very difficult to think of anything else. Emotion becomes dominant.

False fears are a plague, a modern plague!

Dread of disaster makes everybody act in the very way that increases the disaster. Psychologically the situation is analogous to that of people trampled to death when there is a panic in a theatre caused by a cry of 'Fire!'.

It occurred to Susan that men were always waiting for something cataclysmic-love or war or a giant asteroid. Every man wanted to be a hot-headed Bruce Willis character, fighting against the evil foreign enemy while despising the domestic bureaucracy. Men just wanted to focus on one big thing, leaving the thousands of smaller messes for the women around them to clean up.