Afraid Quotes
5719 Afraid quotes by 3276 unique authors
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Your mind is turbulent because you're filled with desires, frustrations. You want too many things. You are afraid of too many things. It is necessary…
— Frederick Lenz
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Everyone is afraid of enlightenment, knowledge, completion. People are afraid of being exposed.
— Frederick Lenz
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Many people excuse themselves by claiming that they don't have to do work anymore because they are beyond it. They are simply afraid of getting…
— Frederick Lenz
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Don't be afraid to take a chance, to jump. Because death will always swallow you up anyway. Death is a friend; it encourages us to…
— Frederick Lenz
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To be afraid of our next life because we don't feel we've done a good job with this life is not wise. It creates unhappiness…
— Frederick Lenz
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If people say harsh words to me though, I don't care. It's a risk to my life. The Taliban don't want us to be working,…
— Malina Suliman
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I went to school, and I remember that you had to do these tests to find out what set you're in - how clever you…
— Kit Harington
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Art must make you laugh a little and make you a little afraid. Anything as long as it doesn't bore,
— Jean Dubuffet
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You cease to be afraid when you cease to hope; for hope is accompanied by fear.
— Seneca the Younger
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The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear, and with good reason; that passion alone, in the trouble of it, exceeding…
— Michel de Montaigne
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Zen people love Buddha so tremendously that they can even play jokes upon him. It is out of great love; they are not afraid.
— Rajneesh
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What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Conservatism is sometimes a symptom of sterility. Those who have nothing in them that can grow and develop must cling to what they have in…
— Eric Hoffer
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We do that in our zeal our calmer moment would be afraid to answer.
— Walter Scott
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I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.
— Rainbow Rowell
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Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
— Sallust
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Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901 Be not afraid to pray... to pray is right. Pray if thou canst with hope;…
— Hartley Coleridge
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Women are most adorable when they are afraid; that's why they frighten so easily.
— Ludwig Borne
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Life is just the same as learning to swim. Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how…
— Alfred Adler
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I always have a curious sort of feeling about some of my things - I hate to show them - I am perfectly inconsistent about…
— Georgia O'Keeffe
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Darwin was not afraid to look deeply into the void. His bold view can be seen as either noble and pessimistic or noble and admirable.…
— Primo Levi
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Soon I'll be old and I've done precious little in this world for lack of time. I am always afraid I'll become senile before I've…
— Paul Gauguin
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Slyly, banteringly, but also overbearingly, the critic - the one who does not swallow anything whole, who waits until posterity has consecrated it before... howling…
— Paul Gauguin
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I haven't yet managed to capture the colour of this landscape; there are moments when I'm appalled at the colours I'm having to use, I'm…
— Claude Monet
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One can understand why Surrealism was not afraid to make for itself a tenet of total revolt, complete insubordination, of sabotage according to rule, and…
— Andre Breton
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