Samuel Johnson Quotes About Worry

• Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize in the imagination, to raise phantoms of horror, or to beset life with supernumerary distresses.

  Samuel Johnson

  Passion, Evil, Imagination

  Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.113

• There is little peace or comfort in life if we are always anxious as to future events. He that worries himself with the dread of possible contingencies will never be at rest.

  Samuel Johnson

  Life, Peace, Future

• None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.

  Samuel Johnson

  Worry, Fool, Influence

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