Quotes About Afraid

I think it's really easy to approach a touchy subject head-on, but 'Sharp Objects' does it in a way that's subtle and it presents mental illness as something quite common and normalized. It's so common and shouldn't be a conversation we're afraid to talk about.

You'd think Peterson would be afraid of me, too, but that teacher wouldn't fear me even if I shoved a live grenade into her hands. "I don't got the money," Blake blurts out. "That answer ain't gonna cut it, man," Paco chimes in from the sidelines. He likes coming with me. He thinks of it as playing good cop/bad cop. Except we play bad gang member/worse gang member.

Not to be content with Life is the unsatisfactory state of those which destroy themselves; who being afraid to live, run blindly upon their own Death, which no Man fears by Experience.

I am leaving you with a gift—peace of mind and heart. And the peace I give is a gift the world cannot give. So don't be troubled or afraid. —JOHN 14: 27 NLT

This kind of peace is not a human achievement. It is a gift from above. "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid" (John 14:27 NIV).

Okay, be serious. Aren't you ever afraid of anything? Plenty of time, he said softly. Even when what you're afraid of defies all logic? Especially then. It's been my experience that fear doesn't have a set of parameters. We can't turn it off just by realizing we shouldn't be afraid.

How could we have been afraid of her? She was only dead. It's the living we fear.

Because he was too afraid of his father's household and the men of the city … he did it at night. Judges 6:27

I'm the one not caring. I'm the one pretending the Earth isn't shattering all around me because I don't want it to be. I don't want to know there was an earthquake in Missouri. I don't want to know the Midwest can die, also, that what's going on isn't just tides and tsunamis. I don't want to have any more to be afraid of. I didn't start this diary for it to be a record of death.

The children stared at him, awed and a little afraid. For a moment he was a stranger, someone they did not know. Jane had a sudden fantastic feeling that Great-Uncle Merry did not really exist at all, and would vanish away if they breathed or spoke.

I didn't want to hurt you, she blurted. I never wanted to be someone you would regret. I'm not afraid for me. I'm afraid for you.

Robin smiled meekly, as if she were confronting a mythical troll and was afraid to get too close.

I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.

Modern man, more afraid of embarrassment sometimes than safety, often ignores it at his own peril.

As one disillusioned ex-Trek official recently said, "You know why they cremated Gene? They were afraid people would come to piss on the grave.

An oppressive odor met us when we crossed the threshold, an odor I had met many times in rain-rotted gray houses where there are coal-oil lamps, water dippers, and unbleached domestic sheets. It always made me afraid, expectant, watchful.

Boys are good at personas. There are a certain number that you can get at the drugstore, like costumes before Halloween. Being cool is pretending that you're not afraid of anything. But everybody is afraid. Everybody is afraid.

I never had a desire to hurt anybody. I have at certain times had violent urges, but I don't think I ever have hurt anybody. Tried to a couple times, but I don't think I have. Yeah, guess I have. In high school. I was dirty then. Kick 'em. I might not've hurt 'em, though, they might've just been afraid of me.

The Democratic Party is very afraid of having competition that is actually unmuzzled and that can tell the truth, which is why they keep this fear voting system in place.

This is what I've been waiting for my whole life. A President who's not afraid to tell the truth about being a lying a**hole.

I didn't want to be left alone with Timothy, not because I was afraid of him but because I was afraid that somebody would come into the office and see us sitting there, two matching rejects in matching orange chairs.

You want to know something? Honestly, I was relieved. What a coward, huh? I don't think so. Oh, yes. I am. A big coward. That's why I just keep daring myself to do things I'm afraid of doing. He had a notion. Such things like? Like bringing you up here to my room.

I was beginning to understand.My grandmother's love was cold because she was afraid of things;that was why everything had to be perfect.

I love comedies. I love watching them. I think I've always been afraid of being on them a little bit.