Afraid Quotes
5719 Afraid quotes by 3276 unique authors
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I'm afraid not." Hades sighed. "My son here convinced me that perhaps I should prioritize my list of enemies." He glared at me with distaste.…
— Rick Riordan
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Sometimes, when you don't ask questions, it's not because you are afraid that someone will lie to your face. It's because you're afraid they'll tell…
— Jodi Picoult
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I really suggest the Pendragon series to all readers unless you are afraid of gore!
— D. J. MacHale
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What we want most is to be held...and told..that everything (everything is a funny thing, is baby milk and papa's eyes, is roaring logs on…
— Truman Capote
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A kind of light spread out from her. And everything changed color. And the world opened out. And a day was good to awaken to.…
— John Steinbeck
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I don't think pandemics make us afraid of death, I think they make us afraid of oblivion. They force us to grapple with the futility…
— John Green
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When He [God] talks of their losing their selves, He means only abandoning the clamour of self-will; once they have done that, He really gives…
— C.S. Lewis
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When you open yourself to the continually changing, impermanent, dynamic nature of your own being and of reality, you increase your capacity to love and…
— Pema Chodron
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Talent is a universal gift, but it takes a lot of courage to use it. Don't be afraid to be the best.
— Paulo Coelho
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It is how it has always been. We will accept the legacy of our ancestors,' Asha says, smiling, and in her smile I do not…
— Libba Bray
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Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the…
— Woodrow Wilson
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Sometimes, we are afraid of something because we're afraid of something else.
— Pascal Mercier
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Those big blue eyes were swimming, and he was afraid that if the first tear fell, he would break and carry her off anywhere she…
— Nora Roberts
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His right ear still held both studs, and I wondered who had the missing earring. I would have asked, but was afraid he’d tell me…
— Kim Harrison
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Ironically enough, in the same way that fear brings to pass what one is afraid of, likewise a forced intention makes impossible what one forcibly…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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It's inappropriate for the queen of the dead to be afraid of ghosts.
— MaryJanice Davidson
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Don't they get afraid, then?" "They have a religion for that.
— Ray Bradbury
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There were now and then, though rarely, the hours that brought the welcome shock, pulled down the walls and brought me back again from my…
— Hermann Hesse
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A work in progress quickly becomes feral. It reverts to a wild state overnight. It is barely domesticated, a mustang on which you one day…
— Annie Dillard
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Pieces. A bit for someone here. A bit there. And sometimes they don't add up to anything whole. But you are so busy dancing. Delivering.…
— Mary E. Pearson
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Often a man wishes to be alone and a girl wishes to be alone too and if they love each other they are jealous of…
— Ernest Hemingway
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The door closed behind her (Phoebe), and the two men regarded each other for a moment. Viktor spoke first. "I must have your promise, Coach,…
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips
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If I canot know your name, may I light a lamp so I can see your face?' If you sould ever see my face, you…
— Julius Lester
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I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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What is my life for and what am I going to do with it? I don't know and I'm afraid. I can never read all…
— Sylvia Plath
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