Afraid Quotes

5719 Afraid quotes by 3276 unique authors

But you have friends. You have a lot of friends. What do you offer your friends to make them so supportave. What do you offer… — Sarah Kane
Fear is the original sin. Almost all of the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
She said, 'I'm so afraid.' And I said, 'why?,' and she said, 'Because I'm so profoundly happy, Dr. Rasul. Happiness like this is frightening.' I… — Khaled Hosseini
Doctor, I had never had anybody like her in my life, she was the fulfillment of my most lascivious adolescent dreams– but marry her, can… — Philip Roth
Do not be afraid to take a chance on peace, to teach peace, to live peace...Peace will be the last word of history. — Pope John Paul II
Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made. Our times are in… — Robert Browning
Every time the phone rang, my heart jumped. Was it Alexander? And when it wasn't him my heart would break into a million pieces. It… — Ellen Schreiber
When a man must be afraid to drink freely from his country's river and streams that country is no longer fit to live in. — Edward Abbey
I talk about going to [George W. Bush's] Inauguration and crying when he took the oath, 'cause I was so afraid he was going to… — Sarah Vowell
We read to learn and to grow, to laugh, to be motivated, and to understand things we've never been exposed to. We read for strength… — Joan Bauer
It wasn't so much that I was afraid of the place itself, but I was afraid of the creatures who masqueraded as people. — Natsuo Kirino
I have my own set of survival techniques. I am patient. I know how to pack light. But my one might travel talent is that… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Late last night and the night before, tommyknockers, tommyknockers knocking on my door. I wanna go out, don't know if I can 'cuz I'm so… — Stephen King
He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and… — Aristotle
Coraline shivered. She preferred her other mother to have a location: if she were nowhere, then she could be anywhere. And, after all, it is… — Neil Gaiman
Congratulations. You have met your conscience. In my experience, the world is divided between those who have one and those who don't. And the ones… — Jean Ferris
I look sad because I don't have the courage to escape from you. And I think I don't want to understand the truth: for you,… — Consuelo de Saint-ExupÃ©ry
One of the cheapest commodities in the world is unfulfilled genius. All of us want to be known as a unique individual, the one who… — Leon Uris
I shall really be very unhappy unless you give me the sort of courage that makes one forget he is afraid. — L. Frank Baum
You don't have to be afraid of looking into my face. We've done nothing to each other that time will not erase. — Bob Dylan
You stayed around your children as long as you could, inhaling the ambient gold shavings of their childhood, and at the last minute you tried… — Meg Wolitzer
Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Desperate? So what? I'm desperate, too!" Fenoglio snapped at her. "My story is foundering in misfortune, and these hands here," he said holding them out… — Cornelia Funke
She is a girl and would not be afraid to walk the whole world with herself. — Lady Gregory
There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river;… — Marina Tsvetaeva

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