Alain de Botton Quotes About Worry

Quotes about: Worry

• Socrates, on being insulted in the marketplace, asked by a passerby, "Don't you worry about being called names?" retorted, "Why? Do you think I should resent it if an ass had kicked me?

  Alain de Botton

  Thinking, Names, Worry

  Alain De Botton (2008). “Status Anxiety”, p.112, Vintage

• The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness".

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  Sadness, Worry, Personality

• Though it may feel otherwise, enjoying life is no more dangerous than apprehending it with continuous anxiety and gloom.

  Alain de Botton

  Worry, Enjoy Life, Anxiety

  Twitter post from Oct 12, 2012

• Status Anxiety: A worry, so pernicious as to be capable of ruining extended stretches of our lives, that we are in danger of failing to conform to the ideals of success laid down by our society and that we may as a result be stripped of dignity and respect; a worry that we are currently occupying too modest a rung or are about to fall to a lower one.

  Alain de Botton

  Happiness, Success, Fall

• In the works of Lucretius, we find two reasons why we shouldn't worry about death. If you have had a successful life, Lucretius tell us, there's no reason to mind its end. And, if you haven't had a good time, "Why do you seek to add more years, which would also pass but ill?"

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  Successful, Years, Two

• What should worry us is not the number of people that oppose us, but how good their reasons are for doing so.

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  Numbers, People, Worry

  Alain de Botton (2001). “The Consolations of Philosophy”, p.33, Penguin UK

• It seems the only way to write a half decent book is to worry oneself sick on an hourly basis that one is producing a complete disaster.

  Alain de Botton

  Book, Writing, Sick

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