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Quotes About Afraid

i could see the veins through your skin like a map to inside you. how could skin be that thin? i was so afraid you might drop and break. i stopped breathing so you wouldn't.
~ Francesca Lia Block
You aren't tired at all, just restless, just afraid of taking one step on this Earth teeming with pitfalls, which is why you always keep both feet in the air at once, you aren't tired, just afraid of the terrible fatigue which will follow this terrible restlessness ...
~ Franz Kafka
Steve was so wonderful to bring wildlife into our living rooms and let us see that animals we used to be afraid of are so important.
~ Terri Irwin
It's like everyone you talk to in Bachelor Nation had their Hannah Brown story. The reason you haven't heard that from Bachelor people, to be totally honest, is they're afraid of Hannah and her fans and, specifically, they are afraid of Hannah's willingness to steer her fans' energy in the direction of her critics.
~ Nick Viall
I was kind of like the Rhea Perlman of the bar. I was like Carla on 'Cheers.' People were more afraid of me. There was a point where I got a little surly. There were only so many chicken wings I could serve before losing the smile on my face.
~ Melissa Rauch
You should have called me. I could have helped." "I was afraid to get involved with someone I didn't know. I already screwed up on that once. You could be a lunatic for all I know." "I could be, but I'm not." "I
~ Robyn Carr
No, I mean your quandary. An iffy dimension where I'm afraid for or worried about one of my daughters, like you, where I cross a boundary and then she gets pissed.' 'So you're saying what happened is normal?' 'I think so. It's easy to overstep out of worry. It can infuriate them, though sometimes they understand later on.' I was
~ Louise Erdrich
And I can't say it now. I can't say what I want to say. I hold you-- I-- I clutch you, because I love you so desperately, and time is so short, we have such a little time in which to live and be young, even at best, and I put my arms around you and hold you because I want to love you while I can and I want to know I'm loving you, only it doesn't mean anything because you aren't afraid. You aren't frightened so that you want to clutch it all while you can.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
All of them, you see, misfits, all good for nothing, cowards, baboons, meek wolves, parasites, every man jack of them, people afraid to face their own responsibilities, fight their own fight, ready to go anywhere, as Tolstoy well perceived—
~ Malcolm Lowry
I do not want to recollect. I should be afraid of preventing the future and of allowing the past to encroach on me. It is out of the utter forgetfulness of yesterday that I create every new hour's freshness. It is never enough for me to have been happy. I do not believe in dead things and cannot distinguish between being no more and never having been.
~ Andre Gide
I don't like this idea It is too much focus on something I am trying to forget I am afraid that this attention to detail will only fuel my anxiety
~ Samantha Schutz
I'm afraid to breathe in case I break the spell.
~ Sara Gruen
Listen, the truth is, nothing is guaranteed. You know that more than anybody. So don't be afraid. Be alive.
~ Sarah Dessen
But I was afraid I'd have to give up on an ideal explanation of her past life. Oh well, there didn't have to be one necessarily.
~ Saul Bellow
The lifestyle of Christians matched their teachings, so that many early Christians were not afraid to say, 'Imitate us as we imitate Christ.' Unfortunately, in contemporary evangelicalism sometimes people say, 'Don't look at us, look at Christ,' because we are worried what people will find if our own lives are scrutinized.
~ John D. Woodbridge
I really hope that all librarians aren't like Gladys Morgan. Because I'd really like , at some point, to walk into a library and not be afraid for my life.
~ Patrick Carman
My compliance without participation began to disorientate him. I thought, as always in those circumstances, that I should pretend a yearning and uncontrolled passion or push him away. But I didn't dare to either one or the other: I was afraid I would throw up, because the result would be earthquake-like waves. I had only to wait.
~ Elena Ferrante
I ran... I didn't trust the government. I was really afraid. I believe now that that was the fatal mistake of my life.
~ Susan Rosenberg
A surgeon is surrounded by people who are sick, discouraged, afraid, embittered, dying - but also courageous, loving, wise, compassionate and alive.
~ Bernie Siegel
This is my third ABC show over the last four years, so we were afraid that nobody would find it. ABC was really struggling and so we just weren't very confident that it would find an audience.
~ James Denton
Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.
~ George Bernard Shaw
He therefore that forsakes the law, is a fugitive. So is he, whosoever he be, that is either sorry, angry, or afraid
~ Marcus Aurelius
And yet, as to where the blame for this misunderstanding resides, I can more easily conceive than write: since I am afraid that, while defending my own relations, I should not spare yours.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
The house was so quiet, as if everyone had been spirited out of sight. I had a feeling of moving through time itself. I saw myself as a small, scurrying animal rushing into my future. But I was not afraid.
~ Ann Rinaldi