Afraid Quote by Elizabeth Taylor

He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.

— Leo Tolstoy

He wanted this someone to see how much he hurt.

— Jonathan Franzen

There was something almost painful about that, the intensity of being so vulnerable and so intimate with him.

— Amanda Hocking

It's fear, Jack. The man deals with a huge amount of fear.' Because he got hurt?' No, not entirely. Fear comes with imagination, it's…

— Thomas Harris

Something in him was broken, and through that break spilled a blind cruelty, a need to hurt and to push away

— Cassandra Clare

He felt his heart, which no longer beat, contract, and he wondered if there was anything in the world as painful as not being…

— Cassandra Clare

He was being about as protective as a can-opener.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

As a child, he had hardened his heart and learned to take their punches. He had learned to spit back and take down anyone…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

He was no more, freed from being, entering into nowhere without even knowing it. Just as he'd feared from the start.

— Philip Roth

Suddenly it was too hard to be in his presence, too painful to know that he would belong to someone else.

— Julia Quinn

He was not afraid. He jumped up on the table with a smile and said he was ready for the rocket to take off…

— Jim Mattox

He was uncomfortable with the idea that use might not like him.

— Maggie Stiefvater