Afraid Quotes

• I just wanted to say things that women wanted to say, but were afraid to.

  

  Sylvia
  • Women
  • Say
  • Afraid

• There's nothing I'm afraid of like scared people.

  

  Robert Frost
  • People
  • Afraid
  • Scared

• I was so afraid of upsetting people, and not being liked for saying something that was not to everyone's taste.

  

  Geri Halliwell Spice Girls
  • People
  • Afraid
  • Taste

• We are afraid that we have not lived. We are not afraid of dying.

  

  Allen Tate
  • Dying
  • Afraid
  • Lived

• Don't be afraid to ask people 'why,' 'what if.' Don't be afraid to attack your career. Get in the game, don't stay on the sidelines.

  

  Beth Mowins
  • Game
  • Career
  • Attack

• All heaven is interested in the cross of Christ, all hell terribly afraid of it, while men are the only beings who more or less ignore its meaning.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Men
  • Heaven
  • Ignore

• I try to open up my heart as much as I can and keep a real keen eye out that I don't get sentimental. I think we're all afraid to reveal our hearts. It's not at all in fashion.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Afraid
  • My Heart
  • Sentimental

• ... I had a latent impression that there was something decidedly fine in Mr. Wopsle's elocution - not for old associations' sake, I am afraid, but because it was very slow, very dreary, very up-hill and down-hill, and very unlike any way in which any man in any natural circumstances of life or death ever expressed himself about anything.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Life
  • Death
  • Elocution

• Don't be afraid to take risks. Make the most of your journey. Make it fun and exciting.

  

  Bernie Williams
  • Journey
  • Afraid
  • Risks

• One shouldn't be afraid of the humans. Well, I am not afraid of the humans, but of what is inhuman in them.

  

  Ivo Andric
  • Humans
  • Afraid

• I think that it's fear. The musicians themselves don't seem to know enough about why they're in the positions they're in, so they're afraid to lose those positions. If you're 22 years old and you can't believe you're even in the position to have a career making music, the first thing you're going to think is: Maintain. Don't lose it. And that's precisely what causes you to lose everything.

  

  Steven Soderbergh
  • Lose
  • Musicians
  • Can't Believe

• It's sort of like turning a light on in the dark closet to show a kid that there's nothing really there, there's nothing to be afraid of.

  

  Chet Zar
  • Light
  • Nothing
  • To Be

• Do not be afraid of perfection - you will never attain it.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Afraid
  • Perfection
  • Attain

• America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • America
  • Success
  • Experiment

• Be brave. Don't be afraid to be stupid.

  

  Matt Smith Poison
  • Stupid
  • Brave
  • Afraid

• I can never remember being afraid of an audience. If the audience could do better, they'd be up here on stage and I'd be out there watching them.

  

  Ethel Merman
  • Remember
  • Audience
  • Afraid

• I feel like it's not Africans who are afraid of China's rise in Africa. It's the West that's afraid of China's rise in Africa.

  

  Uzodinma Iweala
  • Afraid
  • I Feel Like
  • Africans

• I think with all of us, sometimes we're afraid to recognize that we're here.

  

  Andy Kim
  • Afraid
  • Here
  • Recognize

• I lied to Julia, I didn't know what else to do because you - you make me feel..." I had to stop. Not because I didn't have words. I did. But I was afraid to say them. He looked at me, and I knew then I could love him. That if I let myself I would. "You make me feel too," he said, and held out one hand.

  

  Elizabeth Scott
  • Love
  • Words
  • Stop

• If there really is no new way to be found, we are not afraid to stick with the old one that we found previously. So, I do not make every building different.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Different
  • Way
  • Building

• People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that's bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they're afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It's all in how you carry it.

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • People
  • Afraid
  • Themselves

• Especially at night she was afraid of waking up and finding him formless in the bed, transformed into excrescences that burst out because of too much fluid, the flesh melted and dripping, and with it everything around, the furniture, the entire apartment and she herself, his wife, broken, sucked into that stream polluted by living matter.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Night
  • Wife
  • Transformed

• Mrs. Mitcham had seen more love about in the flat than she could remember during the whole of poor Mr. Cumfrit’s time in it. She couldn’t help wondering what that poor gentleman would say if he could see what was happening in his flat. He wouldn’t much like it, she was afraid; but perhaps hardly anybody who was dead would much like what they would see, supposing they were able to come back and look.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Love
  • Remember
  • Gentleman

• You can't be afraid until you have no other option but to be afraid.

  

  Nile Rodgers Chic
  • Afraid
  • Option

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