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Quotes About Afraid

I didn't want to write this even to think of you afraid the thought would curl would tangle & make you common & factual as light.
~ Unknown
And it was respect he needed, infinitely more than love. Just not to have to worry about whether people respect you. Not ever to have to feel that people are being nice to you because they are sorry for you, or afraid of you.
~ James Agee
Her jagged breathing gave her away. She stood, a dark silhouette pressed against the trunk of a cottonwood tree. She was cornered in the yard. No place to go. Sweet goddess , he traced across her mind. I've only come to seal our destiny. You shouldn't feel so afraid of me . And yet her fear was what he enjoyed. He savored it.
~ Lynne Ewing
I'm afraid my voice is going to break. I am afraid she is going to hear how much this hurts.
~ Holly Black, Red Glove
The great fear I've had to overcome is the fear of failure. You have to be willing to be afraid, if you're going to be an artist.
~ Carmen Ejogo
When I hide my feelings it doesn't mean don't want to get hurt, it simply means I'm afraid of what you will think...
~ Unknown
You claim to be heartless, but you're always doing nice things for other people? You're just a sweetheart that's afraid to get hurt again.
~ Unknown
To love is something I was afraid to do but there is something different about you. You made me do something I swore not to do. You made me fall in love with you.
~ Unknown
Gansey had once told Adam that he was afraid most people didn't know how to handle Ronan. What he meant by this was that he was worried that one day someone would fall on Ronan and cut themselves.
~ Maggie Stiefvater
No you don't understand. I've been afraid my whole life. So Sorry, but may I ask of what? Of the future...of my path..I've..I've been afraid of so many things. Perhaps..Perhaps your days of being afraid are done.
~ John Shors
Whilst wretched Man is still in Arms for fear For fear he armes, and is of Armes afraid.
~ John Wilmot
I never cared, I was careless, Fear bein afraid or maybe I'm afraid to be fearless. Or fear bein' fearless but fearful, So even in my carelessness...gotta be careful.
~ Joe Budden
But come here, Fear. / I am alive! / And you are so afraid / of dying.
~ Joy Harjo
Coraline shivered. She preferred her other mother to have a location: if she were nowhere, then she could be anywhere. And, after all, it is always easier to be afraid of something you cannot see.
~ Neil Gaiman, Coraline
I'm either a mutant or a cripple, and I refuse to be a cripple. People pity cripples, but they're afraid of mutants [...] Fear implies respect.
~ Dean Koontz
I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade
~ W. H. Auden
You were afraid of shooting people?" "No," I say. "I was afraid of my considerable capacity to kill." How many young men fear that there is a monster inside of them?
~ Veronica Roth
I fear nomads. I am afraid of them and afraid for them too.
~ Jane Bowles
It's fear of being afraid that frightens me more than anything else.
~ Jerome Cady
It's like a haunted house we can't leave, ' Neil said.A haunted house we're afraid to leave, Tony thought.
~ Unknown
Yeah, but Marcus, aren't you afraid you've now introduced them to the competition?" If you're thinking this, let's be clear about something: If someone wants to know who your competitors are, roughly, how long will it take them to figure it out? Seconds, if they're slow! The reality is this: Consumer ignorance is no longer a viable sales and marketing strategy.
~ Unknown
Everyone has an opinion. And yet we feel more lost and afraid than ever
~ Margaret Silf
You (Millennials) are the generation most afraid of real community because it inevitably limits freedom and choice. Get over your fear.
~ Timothy J. Keller
I a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.
~ A. E. Housman