"Evil is a disease; and worry over disease is itself an additional form of disease, which only adds to the original complaint."
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"Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensue but moody and dull melancholy, kinsman to grim and comfortless despair."
"I just wanted to make something in the world and worry about the rest of it later and not get too caught up in rules."
"It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear; about two of them nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying; and two perhaps can be settled."
"The way young people are joining communities online, and agreeing and separating themselves and creating their own facts about things like vaccination, is worrying."
"Don't want to discuss it, I think it's time for a change You may get disgusted, some think that I'm strange In that case I'll go underground, get some heavy rest Never have to worry, about what is worst and what is best."
"She must love me, to worry about me. She must still be capable of love."
"Try to sleep. Tomorrow’s coming, whether we worry about it or not."
"I am so afraid of people's words.They describe so distinctly everything: And this they call dog and that they call house, here the start and there the end. I worry about their mockery with words, they know everything, what will be, what was; no mountain is still miraculous; and their house and yard lead right up to God. I want to warn and object: Let the things be! I enjoy listening to the sound they are making. But you always touch: and they hush and stand still. That's how you kill."
"My favourite thing about live shows is you can make up new songs on the spot. Never played before, never again. And that's wonderful for me, because it frees me up to not have to worry about lyrics and stuff."
"The one place where I'm allowed to rebel, and the one place where I'm allowed to not worry about censoring myself is my music."
"In being realistic we do not always have to be pessimistic. Christ never blinked his eyes at bad things. But he never became so obsessed with human evil that he lost faith in man."
"For loneliness, worries, difficulties, the unsatisfied need for kindness and sympathy - that is what is hard to bear."
"With sex scenes and intense scenes, in general, a lot of it is preparation before the scenes happen, so that you don't have to worry about it on set."
"I worry that the Senate is working to consider a series of little-noticed provisions in comprehensive immigration reform that may provide a pathway to a national ID card for all individuals present in the United States - citizens and noncitizens."
"Our intervention to destabilize the Assad regime has really made the chaos worse in Syria. And if you were to get rid of Assad today, I would actually worry about the 2 million Christians that are protected by Assad."
"It's not morbid to talk about death. Most people don't worry about death, they worry about a bad death."
"- DON’T WORRY, IT WON’T BE FOREVER. - Good. - IT MAY SEEM LIKE FOREVER."
"SOONER OR LATER ALL MEN MUST DIE. EVERYTHING DIES IN THE END. I CAN BE ROBBED BUT NEVER DENIED, I TOLD MYSELF. WHY WORRY? “I too cannot be cheated,” snapped Fate."
"Be bold and don't worry about what people think. They don't do it that often anyway."