Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives…

I never knew a man troubled with melancholy, who had plenty to do, and did it.

— Josh Billings

Man is troubled by what might be called the Dog Wish, a strange and involved compulsion to be as happy and carefree as a…

— James Thurber

If the work is going well and it's something that has value with some meaning to it, it gives back a lot.

— Richard Gere

“Meaning gives force and the more meaning this work has for you the more it will affect you emotionally and the more force will…

— Maurice Nicoll

Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them

— Epictetus

If we are not stupid or insincere when we say that the good or ill of man lies within his own will, and that…

— Epictetus

What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things…

— Epictetus

The real meaning of the word paranoia is--- a man or person who has the ability to link events that seemingly are not connected.

— John Coleman

The more forcibly I'm made aware of the fact that I'll never be the kind of storyteller I most admire, the less I'll be…

— Helen Oyeyemi

For those of us who cry out for gun control, our fears cannot be eliminated as long as the country remains an armed camp…

— Robert Dallek

I think some people do want to die, and they will get a disease. There are people who know their lives are so troubled,…

— Bernie Siegel

Across the troubled maelstrom of time, people always need a beer.

— Ellen Kushner

“Never before had I used my service to escape any woes that troubled me, but I did that day.”

— Jacqueline Carey

When the Savior Himself was born, there were troubled times.

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

Earthly majesty is always akin to the fallen angel, who is proud and unhappy, beautiful but troubled, and whose plans and efforts, though vast,…

— Otto von Bismarck