Afraid Quotes
5719 quotes by 3276 authors
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Over the last few hours I've allowed myself to feel defeated, and just like she said if you allow yourself to feel the way you…
— Tori Amos
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She's afraid to tell me anything important, knowing I'll only turn around and write about it. In my mind, I'm like a friendly junkman, building…
— David Sedaris
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Not very good, I am afraid. But now really, do not you think Udolpho the nicest book in the world?" "The nicest—by which I suppose…
— Jane Austen
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We are always more afraid than we wish to be, but we can always be braver than we expect.
— Robert Jordan
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Why aren't you afraid of me? I've seen my death, and you're not it.
— Kim Harrison
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it's doors I'm afraid of because I can't see through them, its the door opening by itself in the wind I'm afraid of.
— Margaret Atwood
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Lia: "You've changed your mind about wanting to marry me. You're afraid I'll burn down your home. Embarrass you in front of all the other…
— Shana Abe
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I didn't want to hurt you," she blurted. "I never wanted to be someone you would regret. I'm not afraid for me. I'm afraid for…
— Susan Mallery
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You musn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.
— Christopher Nolan
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I developed a deep, abiding fear of jeans, which I still have. I hold my breath and shut my eyes when I pull on a…
— Marya Hornbacher
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Be famous. Be a big social experiment in getting what you don't want. Find value in what we've been taught is worthless. Find good in…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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Philosophizing is simply one way of being afraid, a cowardly pretense that doesn't get you anywhere.
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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We are so afraid of the idea of having to die… that we always try to find excuses for the dead, as if we were…
— Jose Saramago
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The truth is that life is hard and dangerous; that he who seeks his own happiness does not find it; that he who is weak…
— Joyce Cary
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I wish I could explain it so someone could understand it. I'm afraid it's something I can't put into words. There's just this heavy, overwhelming…
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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I am sorry,' he whispers. 'I am sorry I treated you so ill. I thought only to protect Duval.' 'It was not I who was…
— R.L. LaFevers
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As Val jumped down onto the litter-strewn concrete after them, she thought how insane it was to follow two people she didn't know into the…
— Holly Black
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What you are afraid of is never as bad as what you imagine. The fear you let build up in your mind is worse than…
— Spencer Johnson
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..."We were the pair. One too afraid to feel anything lest she lose control of her ironclad hold on her emotions, and the other so…
— Kim Harrison
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But it's daylight," she said at last. "Vampires can't go out in the sun, everyone knows that!" Bones chuckled. "Right And we shrink back from…
— Jeaniene Frost
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