89 Worry Quotes

Navigating the twists and turns of daily life often comes with a fair share of worries and anxieties. Whether it’s related to work, relationships, or personal growth, worry can sometimes feel overwhelming. To help ease your mind and offer a fresh perspective, we’ve compiled a curated collection of the top 89 worry quotes. These thought-provoking words of wisdom from a range of voices can provide solace, insight, and perhaps even a moment of clarity in trying times. So take a deep breath, and let these quotes remind you of the strength and resilience within.

1. “Life is in Fate's hands now. You made your choice to stay... it's too late to change that, so stop agonizing over it.... You're making my scales itch.Saphira, from "Eragon” - Christopher Paolini

2. “It's not time to worry yet” - Harper Lee

3. “If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it's not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever.” - Dalai Lama XIV

4. “If there is no solution to the problem then don't waste time worrying about it. If there is a solution to the problem then don't waste time worrying about it.” - Dalai Lama XIV

5. “Worry is a misuse of the imagination.” - Dan Zadra

6. “Drag your thoughts awayfrom your troubles...by the ears, by the heels,or any other way you can manage it.” - Mark Twain

7. “According to Vedanta, there are only two symptoms of enlightenment, just two indications that a transformation is taking place within you toward a higher consciousness. The first symptom is that you stop worrying. Things don't bother you anymore. You become light-hearted and full of joy. The second symptom is that you encounter more and more meaningful coincidences in your life, more and more synchronicities. And this accelerates to the point where you actually experience the miraculous. (quoted by Carol Lynn Pearson in Consider the Butterfly)” - Deepak Chopra

8. “If you have fear of some pain or suffering, you should examine whether there is anything you can do about it. If you can, there is no need to worry about it; if you cannot do anything, then there is also no need to worry.” - Dalai Lama XIV

9. “Times will change for the better when you change.” - Maxwell Maltz

10. “Worry is most often a prideful way of thinking that you have more control over life and its circumstances than you actually do.” - June Hunt

11. “Worrying is carrying tomorrow's load with today's strength- carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.” - Corrie Ten Boom

12. “Worry is the secret weapon perpetrated upon us by the dark forces of the world that lurk in the shape of fear, uncertainty, confusion, and loss.We, on the other hand, have our own secret weapon against these incorporeal fiends.It is laughter.” - Vera Nazarian

13. “And do you not think less of me for making my fortune insuch a way?” After all, her own sister did.He gave her an odd look. “There is no shame in being themistress of a king. It’s a position of great power and influence. I think less of Louis for letting you go.” - Jenna Maclaine

14. “Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.” - Leo Buscaglia

15. “The more you pray, the less you'll panic. The more you worship, the less you worry. You'll feel more patient and less pressured.” - Rick Warren

16. “Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.” - Marcus Aurelius

17. “If the problem can be solved why worry? If the problem cannot be solved worrying will do you no good.” - Shantideva

18. “Never worry alone. When anxiety grabs my mind, it is self-perpetuating. Worrisome thoughts reproduce faster than rabbits, so one of the most powerful ways to stop the spiral of worry is simply to disclose my worry to a friend... The simple act of reassurance from another human being [becomes] a tool of the Spirit to cast out fear -- because peace and fear are both contagious.” - John Ortberg

19. “When 1:45 came, half the class left, and Danny Hupfer whispered, "If she gives you a cream puff after we leave, I'm going to kill you" - which was not something that someone headed off to prepare for his bar mitzvah should be thinking.When 1:55 came and the other half of the class left, Meryl Lee whispered, "If she gives you one after we leave, I'm going to do Number 408 to you." I didn't remember what Number 408 was, but it was probably pretty close to what Danny Hupfer had promised.Even Mai Thi looked at me with narrowed eyes and said, "I know your home." Which sounded pretty ominous.” - Gary D. Schmidt

20. “I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. "Never worry about your heart till it stops beating. ” - E.B. White

21. “What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated with your problematic life situation that every day takes up most of your attention? A dash, one or two inches long, between the date of birth and date of death on your gravestone.” - Eckhart Tolle

22. “Let me assure you that my intent is not to offend or merely be provocative. I'm simply worried.” - Sam Harris

23. “News of Daniel's disappearance does not alarm me as it might have done a week ago. Given recent events, very little alarms me as it might have done a week ago. I feel as if my supply of alarm has been exhausted, at least temporarily.” - Patricia C. Wrede

24. “If I'd thought she was uninterested, I never would have worried so much - the prospect of screwing something up is much more daunting than that of screwing nothing up. I definitely thought there was something there, and so there was something to lose, you see.” - Adam Levin

25. “It makes me . . . anxious . . . to be away from you.” - Stephenie Meyer

26. “Temperamentally anxious people can have a hard time staying motivated, period, because their intense focus on their worries distracts them from their goals.” - Winifred Gallagher

27. “People who are diagnosed as having "generalized anxiety disorder" are afflicted by three major problems that many of us experience to a lesser extent from time to time. First and foremost, says Rapgay, the natural human inclination to focus on threats and bad news is strongly amplified in them, so that even significant positive events get suppressed. An inflexible mentality and tendency toward excessive verbalizing make therapeutic intervention a further challenge.” - Winifred Gallagher

28. “Whatever is going to happen will happen, whether we worry or not.” - Ana Monnar

29. “Sometimes I tend to worry too much and at the end of all the preoccupation nothing goes wrong.” - Ana Monnar

30. “It's about the quality of the worry," I said. "I have happier worries now than I used to.” - David Gilmour

31. “Roger. Be Safe. We'll be there when we can, over.” - Kalee Thompson

32. “There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.” - Michel de Montaigne

33. “We would worry less if we praised more. Thanksgiving is the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction.” - Harry A. Ironside

34. “Worry is itself an illness, since worry is an accusation against Divine Wisdom, a criticism of Divine Mercy.” - Said Nursi

35. “Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose” - Eckhart Tolle

36. “If I was a worrier I'd worry, but not being a worrier I'm just sort of confused and pissed off.” - Mykle Hansen

37. “Only 8% of our worry will come to pass. 92% of our worry is wasted. DON'T PANIC” - Mark Gorman

38. “Unpopular, lonely and loving, Elinor need not trouble, For if she were not so loving, She would not be so miserable.” - Stevie Smith

39. “Her forehead was a maze of anxious little grooves, from a lifetime of wondering about whether everyone within range was OK.” - Tana French

40. “Basically, if the mind stays in the present, it’s impossible to worry. Upon careful consideration, it becomes clear that human beings are capable of worrying only about an event that has already transpired or one that may take place in the future (although the occurrence might have just happened or may be about to happen in the next instant). The present moment contains no time or space for worry.” - H.E. Davey

41. “Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

42. “I wanted to get away,' said she; 'everybody wants to plague and worry me about nothing. They'll be all right tomorrow. What's worrying them?''They are sacrificing to our Canadian God,' said Solly. 'We all believe that if we fret and abuse ourselves sufficiently, Providence will take pity and smile upon anything we attempt. A light heart, or a consciousness of desert, attracts ill luck. You have been away from your native land too long. You have forgotten our folkways. Listen to that gang over there; they are scanning the heavens and hoping aloud that it won't rain tomorrow. That is to placate the Mean Old Man in the Sky, and persuade him to be kind to us.” - Robertson Davies

43. “You worry too much. Eat some bacon...what? No, I got no idea if it'll make you feel better, I just made too much bacon.” - Justin Halpern

44. “Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don't happen at all.” - Thomas Carlyle

45. “It wasn't that the Gospel proved useful for my many worries but that the Gospel proved the uselessness of my worries and so refocused my whole attention.” - Henri J.M. Nouwen

46. “Am I worried about the future? I don't know. When I think of the word it's like seeing a cavity, a space where a tooth used to be.” - Kirsty Eagar

47. “The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it's no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won't come.” - J. R. R. Tolkien

48. “To me, comedy is a great occupation because I don't really worry that much about what other people think of me.” - Joe Rogan

49. “Worry was my mother's mechanic, her mechanism for engaging with the machinery of living. Worry was an anchor for her, a hook, something to clutch on to in the world. Worry was a box to live inside of, worry a mechanism for evading the present, for re-creating the past, for dealing with the future.” - Charles Yu

50. “Don't worry much about the after-life, Just like you don't worry about your before-Life. Worry (and be grateful) about THIS life. This one DOES count” - Pablo

51. “Don't lose today by worrying about tomorrow!!!” - John F. Herbert

52. “Don't worry. Worry is useless. I worried anyway” - John Green

53. “Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.” - Keith Caserta

54. “Worry is like a rocking-chair. It gives you something to do buy gets you nowhere.” - Wayne Bennett

55. “Worry divides the mind.” - Max Lucado

56. “Pray, hope, and don't worry. Worry is useless. God is merciful and will hear your prayer.” - Padre Pio

57. “All this wondering was the weather vane on top of the building of unrest and of discontent” - Steinbeck

58. “When I don't have something to worry about, I worry. Nothing comes so naturally to a human being as anxiety and worry.” - Brian Richardson

59. “I watch worry and anxiety being pandered to through technology which is neutral.” - Brian Richardson

60. “For most of my life I've been a listener. At least in the beginning, I think the reason I listened so intently was to have a chance of hearing the train before it ran over me.” - Steve Rasnic Tem

61. “She knows that feeling too. Of believing that each time someone says her name, it’s to tell her that something bad has happened.” - Melina Marchetta

62. “Life...as God intended it enables us to live above the drag of fear, superstition, shame, pessimism, guilt, anxiety, worry, and all the negativity that keeps people from seizing each day as a gift from Him.” - Swindoll Charles R.

63. “The devil, darkness, and death may swagger and boast, the pangs of life will sting for a while longer, but don't worry; the forces of evil are breathing their last. Not to worry...He's risen!” - Swindoll Charles R.

64. “God has called His creation to find satisfaction in a personal relationship with Him, and stop trying to manage the world by conforming it to our expectations, and to allow Him to govern His creation. He continues to say through an ancient Hebrew worship song, "Be still and know that I am God!” - Swindoll Charles R.

65. “Worrying doesn't make any difference, but working does and spirituality gives one the strength to work” - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

66. “...I'm constantly agitated, restless - I work moments like worry beads until I see your face...” - John Geddes

67. “Sometimes, even when I'm trying to keep the load light it just feels so heavy. Like the sky is a ton of bricks waiting to fall and anything I might do, think or feel could cause it to come crashing down.” - Jane Devin

68. “He might have been encased in a thick glass bubble, so separate did he feel from his three dining companions. It was a sensation with which he was only too familiar, that of walking in a giant sphere of worry, enclosed by it, watching his own terrors roll by, obscuring the outside world.” - J.K. Rowling

69. “Let's worry like mad. Shall we start on a worldwide basis and work down to ourselves, or start with ourselves and spread?""I'm going to do me-and-Peter and that dead man.""All right. I'm just going to do a wee one about Bunny and then I'll join you. Always creeping around telling tales and stealing people's tights! How can anyone be that scrofulous and live? Now if somebody bumped him off, that would make sense.” - Pamela Branch

70. “Don't go looking for worry. It finds you on its own.” - Autumn Jordon

71. “The speaker indicts our unbelieving responses to Jesus' COMMAND not to worry. We take it less seriously than His commands about overt actions and justify ourselves that we would not worry if He kept us from any circumstance we might worry about.” - Jim Savastio

72. “The way to misuse our possessions is to use them as an insurance against the morrow. Anxiety is always directed to the morrow, whereas goods are in the strictest sense meant to be used only for to-day.” - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

73. “Worry is absence of faith.” - Paul Palnik

74. “Worry is down payment on a problem that hasn't happened. Trust Jesus!” - Jarrid Wilson

75. “Dwell in the past, worry about the future and find misery in the present.” - Wayne Gerard Trotman

76. “The apprehension of this blessed truth (God's faithfulness) will check our murmurings. The Lord knows what is best for each of us, and one effect or resting on this truth will be the silencing of our petulant complainings. God is greatly honored when, under trial and chastening, we have good thoughts of Him, vindicate His wisdom and justice, and recognize His love in His very rebukes.” - A. W. Pink

77. “I was terrified of death by the time I was three or four, actively if not lucidly. I had frequent nightmares about snakes and scary neighbors. By the age of four or five, I was terrified by my thoughts. By the time I was five, the migraines began. I was so sensitive about myself and the world that I cried or shriveled up at the slightest hurt. People always told me, "You've got to get a thicker skin," like now they might say, jovially, "Let go and let God." Believe me, if I could, I would, and in the meantime I feel like stabbing you in the forehead. Teachers wrote on my report cards that I was too sensitive, excessively worried, as if this were an easily correctable condition, as if I were wearing too much of the violet toilet water little girls wore then.” - Anne Lamott

78. “I had not the least idea of a gamekeeper's occupation being so dangerous - there had never been such a person employed on the Longbourn estate - and just as I had spent half the previous night wondering about Peter, I spent half the next one worrying about him.” - Jennifer Paynter

79. “When I was young I wanted so much to be like her. What a blessing are those moments when there is nothing to worry about, no thought of trouble or grief in the world.” - Belinda Jeffrey

80. “We are, perhaps uniquely among the earth’s creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take the idea of dying, unable to sit still.” - Lewis Thomas

81. “For every evil under the sun,There is a remedy, or there is none.If there be one, try and find it;If there be none, never mind it.” - Mother Goose Rhymes

82. “We imagine that a little anxiety and worry is an indication of how wise we really are; it may be an indication of how wicked we really are.” - Oswald Chambers

83. “Rather than having regrets over events in the past, or worrying whether or not the future will bring you what you need or desire, allow yourself to rest in the present, the now. Understand that all that has transpired has brought you to this moment, and in this very moment, riches that far outweigh those of the world already lie within you.” - Kristi Bowman

84. “One of life's great truths is this: when one is about to be struck by a speeding six-hundred pound Coke machine, one need worry about little else.” - Stephen King

85. “If you would stop worrying about things you don’t control and release what God has put into you, you will change everything around you.” - Steve Maraboli

86. “Paranoia is at most annoying!” - Anthony Liccione

87. “Greater is Your care for me than all the care I am able to take from myself.” - Thomas A. Kempis

88. “Don't panic. Say, Hey, no problem. Run a hand through your hair like the whiteboys do even though the only thing that runs easily through your hair is Africa.” - Junot Diaz

89. “She inhaled a worry. She exhaled a prayer." Mary Lou Quinlan, author” - Mary Lou Quinlan