Afraid Quotes
5719 quotes by 3276 authors
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It's so, so stupid what we do to ourselves because we're afraid. It's so stupid.
— Sarah Dessen
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I've met talespinners before, Jake, and they're all cut more or less from the same cloth. They tell tales because they're afraid of life.
— Stephen King
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You are afraid to die, and you’re afraid to live. What a way to exist.
— Neale Donald Walsch
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Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.
— Barbara Kingsolver
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I told myself: 'I am surrounded by unknown things.' I imagined man without ears, suspecting the existence of sound as we suspect so many hidden…
— Guy de Maupassant
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It's more than you think it can be," she heard herself say. "It changes everything, and fixes everything that matters. Maybe you're never going to…
— Nora Roberts
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What are you afraid of? I'm afraid of not recognizing Paradise.
— Louise Penny
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But there was no hiding from Conscience. Not in new homes and new cars. In travel. In meditation or frantic activity. In children, in good…
— Louise Penny
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And in a small house five miles away was a man who held my mud-encrusted charm bracelet out to his wife. Look what I found…
— Alice Sebold
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You're so afraid of being hurt that you attack first. Only those who really care about you will weather the assault of your verbal attacks…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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You, sir, are a romantic, and I'm afraid the condition is incurable. -Eponymous Clent
— Frances Hardinge
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Down these mean streets a man must go who is neither tarnished nor afraid
— Raymond Chandler
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Don't ever have children, Tyler, unless you're ready to be afraid everyday for the rest of your life.
— Joe Hill
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No man should leave in the universe anything of which he is afraid.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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People are afraid of being more ignorant than their children―especially, apparantly, their daughters.
— Daniel Dennett
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All fear comes from trying to see the future, Biff. If you know what is coming, you aren't afraid.
— Christopher Moore
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I sped through heaven and saw god at work. I suffered holy pains. I dropped all my defenses and was afraid of nothing in the…
— Hermann Hesse
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It tore my heart out, because I heard his voice. The wolves sang slowly behind him, bittersweet harmony, but all I heard was Sam. His…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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For me, sleeping is a waste of time. I'm afraid to sleep. It's a form of death.
— Edith Piaf
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Macy: "Listen, I can't pretend to be the queen of good advice, here. I've had more boyfriends than I can count, and I'm not so…
— Megan Hart
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