Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Second Neurotic's Notebook"
Quotations
Worry
We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.
-John Lancaster Spalding
He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
-Michel De Montaigne
"Essays"
There are two days in the week about which and upon which I never worry... Yesterday and Tomorrow.
-Robert Jones Burdette
Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Neurotic's Notebook"
Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.
-James Russell Lowell
We all worry about the population explosion, but we don’t worry about it at the right time.
-Arthur Hoppe
Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.
-E. W. Howe
As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see.
-Julius Caesar
Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.
-William Inge
