Afraid Quotes

5719 Afraid quotes by 3276 unique authors

You can say a lot of bad things about Alabama, but you can't say that Alabamans as a people are duly afraid of deep fryers. — John Green
If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be? Half the world is feminine--why is there resentment at a female-oriented art? Nobody… — May Sarton
People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to… — Terry Goodkind
When I was young, I was so interested in baseball that my family was afraid I'd waste my life and be a pitcher. Later they… — Robert Frost
A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong. — Raymond Chandler
Avoid the flourish. Do not be afraid to be weak. Do not be ashamed to be tired. You look good when you’re tired. You look… — Leonard Cohen
excuse me' he added, taking the opera glasses out of her hands and looking over her bare shoulder at the row of boxes opposite, 'i'm… — Leo Tolstoy
But if the gods do not exist at all - then we are lost,' I said. On the contrary - we are found!' said Aesop.… — Erica Jong
Would you mind repeating that? I'm afraid I might have lost my wits altogether and just hallucinated what I've longed to hear. — Jeaniene Frost
Fear is the loneliest feeling. You can be in a throng of people, but if you're afraid, you're on your own. — Michelle Paver
We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life.… — William James
There is no dishonor in losing the race. There is only dishonor in not racing because you are afraid to lose. — Garth Stein
Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away. — Thomas Fuller
Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life. — Jonathan Edwards
Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?' 'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father… — George R. R. Martin
the first quality of an honest man is contempt for religion, which would have us afraid of the most natural thing in the world, which… — Umberto Eco
I hate solitude, but I'm afraid of intimacy. The substance of my life is a private conversation with myself which to turn into a dialogue… — Iris Murdoch
You're so beautiful," said Alice. "I'm afraid of looking at you and not knowing who you are." "I think that even if you don't know… — Lisa Genova
Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular. But the realism… — Jonathan Franzen
I had always wanted to love Eve as Denny loved her, but I never had because I was afraid. She was my rain. She was… — Garth Stein
My grandfather used to say: Life is astoundingly short. To me, looking back over it, life seems so foreshortened that I scarcely understand, for instance,… — Franz Kafka
Faith in something greater than ourselves enables us to do what we have said we'll do, to press forward when we are tired or hurt… — Gordon B. Hinckley
Are you all right, Sir?" asked Hezekiah. "Just fighting over old battles in my mind," said John. "It's the problem with age. You have all… — Orson Scott Card
But I was afraid of the questions (much more than the accusations) you might both put to me. — J D Salinger
I am not afraid to keep on living. I am not afraid to walk this world alone. Honey if you stay you'll be forgiven, nothing… — Gerard Way

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