Afraid Quotes

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The root of things, what they were all afraid of saying, was that happiness is dirt cheap. You can have it for nothing. Beauty. — Virginia Woolf
...and she ran out of the diesel combustion and right to me and we held each other and we were not empty at all. "Holling,"… — Gary D. Schmidt
I am sorry I ran from you. I am still running, running from that knowledge, that eye, that love from which there is no refuge.… — Annie Dillard
Now, Mr. Great-heart was a strong man, so he was not afraid of a lion. — John Bunyan
Be afraid of nothing. Hating none, giving love to all, feeling the love of God, seeing His presence in everyone, and having but one desire… — Paramahansa Yogananda
I wanted to tell her everything, maybe if I'd been able to, we could have lived differently, maybe I'd be there with you now instead… — Jonathan Safran Foer
...in words and pickles, I have immortalized my memories, although distortions are inevitable in both methods. We must live, I'm afraid, with the shadows of… — Salman Rushdie
I was afraid you had deceased,' he said. 'Or gotten engrossed in a long book. — Garrison Keillor
Now the mountains were getting that pink tinge, I mean the rocks, they were just solid rock covered with the atoms of dust accumulated there… — Jack Kerouac
Maybe one night Iâ€™ll be asleep and Iâ€™ll feel a hand like a dove on my cheekbone and feel her breath cool like peppermints and… — Francesca Lia Block
When we're afraid, we lose all sense of analysis and reflection. Our fear paralyzes us. Besides, fear has always been the driving force behind all… — Marjane Satrapi
Do I fear death? No, I am not afraid of being dead because there's nothing to be afraid of, I won't know it. I fear… — Christopher Hitchens
I wanted to hold happiness in reserve, like a bottle of champagne. I postponed it because I was afraid, because I overvalued it, and then… — Curtis Sittenfeld
I've never been afraid of the dark. I'm more afraid of the day, of people. I love the night. The solitude. Well, I don't love… — Julie Anne Peters
Love is such a priceless treasure that you can buy the whole world with it, and redeem not only your own but other people's sins.… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
If you're afraid to die, you're afraid to live. You can't have one without the other. — Rita Mae Brown
I don't think you have time to waste not writing because you are afraid you won't be good at it. — Anne Lamott
Try to write in a directly emotional way, instead of being too subtle or oblique. Don't be afraid of your material or your past. Be… — Anne Lamott
Perhaps he could still weave together the broken threads of his life. And yet, I wanted him here now. I needed him here. In the… — Juliet Marillier
The ancients were afraid that if they went to the end of the earth they would fall off and be consumed by dragons. But once… — Francis Schaeffer

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