Afraid Quotes

5719 Afraid quotes by 3276 unique authors

If I'm afraid of someone on the street, I'll turn to him (it's always a boy) and say, "Excuse me, do you happen to know… — Rebecca Stead
A big enough artist, I say, can eat anything, must eat everything and then alchemize it. Only the feeble writer is afraid of expansion. — Anais Nin
If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you. — Natalie Goldberg
It is only on the battlefield of ideas that the best ones can be recognized and ultimately prevail. Only those afraid of the truth seek… — Glenn Beck
I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I'm not afraid, but it seems as if I… — Louisa May Alcott
I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they're not alive. — Jane Austen
Some are young people who don't know who they are, what they can be or even want to be. They are afraid, but they don't… — Thomas S. Monson
A past may chase you if you try to escape from it... but once you confront it, it's just an old memory inside you. There's… — Kazuya Minekura
He'd pulled back a little, just with his lower half, and I was afraid the scorch in my cheeks would set fire to the rest… — Lilith Saintcrow
I shan't be lonely now. I was lonely; I was afraid. But the emptiness and the darkness are gone; when I turn back into myself… — Edith Wharton
It's so, so stupid what we do to ourselves because we're afraid. It's so stupid. — Sarah Dessen
I've met talespinners before, Jake, and they're all cut more or less from the same cloth. They tell tales because they're afraid of life. — Stephen King
You are afraid to die, and you’re afraid to live. What a way to exist. — Neale Donald Walsch
Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember. — Barbara Kingsolver
I told myself: 'I am surrounded by unknown things.' I imagined man without ears, suspecting the existence of sound as we suspect so many hidden… — Guy de Maupassant
It's more than you think it can be," she heard herself say. "It changes everything, and fixes everything that matters. Maybe you're never going to… — Nora Roberts
What are you afraid of? I'm afraid of not recognizing Paradise. — Louise Penny
But there was no hiding from Conscience. Not in new homes and new cars. In travel. In meditation or frantic activity. In children, in good… — Louise Penny
And in a small house five miles away was a man who held my mud-encrusted charm bracelet out to his wife. Look what I found… — Alice Sebold
You're so afraid of being hurt that you attack first. Only those who really care about you will weather the assault of your verbal attacks… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
You, sir, are a romantic, and I'm afraid the condition is incurable. -Eponymous Clent — Frances Hardinge
Down these mean streets a man must go who is neither tarnished nor afraid — Raymond Chandler
Don't ever have children, Tyler, unless you're ready to be afraid everyday for the rest of your life. — Joe Hill
No man should leave in the universe anything of which he is afraid. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
People are afraid of being more ignorant than their children―especially, apparantly, their daughters. — Daniel Dennett

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