Catastrophizing Quotes

I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.

Most of the things I worried about in life never happened.

Ninety per-cent of what we worry about never happens, yet we worry and worry. What a horrible way to go through life! What a horrible thing to do to your colon!

Some of the worst things in my life never even happened.

Most things I worry about never happen anyway.

Don't just sit there and worry. Be proactive. Do something - anything - about what's worrying you so you can gain information, focus and control over the situation. I've suffered a great many catastrophes in my life. Most of them never happened.

There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happened.

Don't spend a lot of time imagining the worst-case scenario. It rarely goes down as you imagine it will, and if by some fluke it does, you will have lived it twice.

No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse.

If you fixate on the worst-case scenario and it actually happens, you’ve lived it twice.

Just relax. When I was younger, I made myself the victim of catastrophic thinking. Anything that went wrong was the end of the world. But as I've gotten older, I've learned to stop myself and say, 'Hey babe, calm down. Tomorrow there will be sun.'

It's really easy to catastrophise everything. I'd like to think as I've gotten older, I do a bit better with that.

‎All my stupid little thoughts beget stupid little thoughts, rampantly speculating every possible outcome of every possible situation until they're all done to death and none of them could ever be true.

There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!

All the doomsayers were wrong…. People want to show they are more intelligent by predicting the worst case scenario.

Once we start believing that the apocalypse is coming, the amygdala goes on high alert, filtering out most anything that says otherwise.

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

Convince yourself that worrying about many situations will make them worse rather than improve them.

Fools, when their roof-tree falls, think it doomsday.

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.

I'm one of those people who lies awake all night and worries about all the horrible things that can go wrong, whether a comma was wrong.

Whining about your own, others', or the world's failings is a main element in what we usually call neurosis.

I'm in a complete state of panic before I begin something because I'm sure that it's going to be a complete disaster. I'm going to do a worse job than anybody could ever imagine anybody doing on the planet Earth.

Everything is 'colossalized' - events, fortunes, accidents, climate, conversation, ambitions - everything is in the extreme ... They can't even have a tram run off a line, which in England or France might kill one or two people, without its making a holocaust of half a street full. ... The thing which surprises me is they should still employ animals of normal size; one would expect to see elephants and mammoths drawing the hansoms and carts!

Negative thinking blows everything out of proportion.