Daily Inspiration Quote by Lucy Maud Montgomery

A quiet rebuke to the hobby of catastrophizing, Montgomery’s line lands with the calm authority of someone who has seen how worry can become a second job. The phrasing is deliberately plain - “unpleasant things,” “no use” - refusing the melodrama that anxious minds often crave. That restraint is the point. She isn’t denying hardship; she’s policing the border between what life actually delivers and what we volunteer to manufacture in our heads.

The subtext has the texture of an educator’s voice: practical, almost household-management in its logic. “Already” does heavy lifting, reminding the reader that suffering doesn’t need our creative assistance. “Imagining” is the quiet villain here, not imagination as art or ambition, but imagination as a runaway engine: rehearsing worst-case scenarios, pre-living grief, treating dread as preparation. Montgomery frames that as inefficiency, even indulgence. If pain is inevitable, self-inflicted pain is optional.

Context matters. Writing and teaching in the early 20th century - an era shadowed by war, influenza, and economic instability - Montgomery knew the world supplied ample reasons to despair. Her work often balances darkness with luminous steadiness, especially in communities where women were expected to keep life emotionally habitable. This sentence is a survival tactic disguised as common sense: an argument for conserving attention, for refusing to let fear colonize the hours you still control. It’s not naïve optimism; it’s triage.