Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Second Neurotic's Notebook"
Quotations
Worry
As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see.
-Julius Caesar
He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
-Michel De Montaigne
"Essays"
Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.
-James Russell Lowell
Worry is a misuse of imagination.
-Dan Zadra
People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.
-George Bernard Shaw
Don't think you are getting worried because it is a matter of 'worry'; as the same
news yields different intensities of worries in each person.
-Deep Trivedi
Little minds have little worries; big minds have no time for worries.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times.
-Dean Smith
We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.
-John Lancaster Spalding
