Afraid Quotes
5719 quotes by 3276 authors
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It wasn't so much that he minded telling Leslie that he was afraid to go; it was that he minded being afraid. It was as…
— Katherine Paterson
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They're afraid of change, and we must change. They're afraid of the young, and we are the young. They're afraid of music, and music is…
— James Patterson
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This world, I am afraid, is designed for crashing bores.
— Steven Morrissey
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You wouldn’t be normal if you were never afraid. Even the bravest men experience fear. One of the biggest jobs we all face in combat…
— Joseph Heller
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What is afraid?' asked Peter longingly. He thought it must be some splendid thing. 'I do wish you would teach me how to be afraid,…
— James M. Barrie
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If you fear nothing, then you are not brave. You are merely too foolish to be afraid.
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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You know the days when you get the mean reds? Paul Varjak: The mean reds. You mean like the blues? Holly Golightly: No. The blues…
— Truman Capote
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If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it.
— Suzanne Collins
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My flesh was burning where the skin was scraped off my knees, and I was afraid that I couldn't be alive anymore with so much…
— Herta Muller
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When you stop being afraid you feel good
— Spencer Johnson
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And I can't say it now. I can't say what I want to say. I hold you-- I-- I clutch you, because I love you…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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Happy. And then I got afraid that it would vanish as quickly as it came. That it was accidental-- that I didn't deserve it. It's…
— Douglas Coupland
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She stared up at me, and there was something in her eyes, something that said we finally had an understanding. She was afraid of me,…
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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He said that hate makes the world go round People are afraid of what they really want They make enemies of all the things that…
— Henry Rollins
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You do know how to play pinochle?" Mr. D eyed me suspiciously. "I'm afraid not," I said. "I'm afraid not, sir," he said. "Well," he…
— Rick Riordan
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I said, I know why you’re afraid to fight with me.†"And why is that?†If he flexed again, I’d have to implement emergency measures.…
— Ilona Andrews
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You aren't afraid of throwing yourself in the path of danger, but you're terrified of letting anyone in.
— Richelle Mead
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Great minds may have cold hearts. Form but no color. It is an incompleteness. And so they are afraid of any woman who both thinks…
— Sena Jeter Naslund
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That's Collin."She panicked."He can't see you!" Don't tell me you're afraid of your own brother?"Staton seemed to think that was funny.She hated the smirk that…
— Lynne Ewing
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I am not laughing, Dorian; at least I am not laughing at you. But you should not say the greatest romance of your life. You…
— Oscar Wilde
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