Afraid Quotes
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People are more afraid to love than they are to kill.
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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.
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I am probably afraid that some spectator will not understand my photography - therefore I proceed to make it really less understandable by writing defensibly about it.
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He was afraid that he was becoming just like his father, who was always angry and rarely talked with his children—except to compare them unfavorably with his comrades who had lost their lives around Christmas 1944, during the Battle of the Bulge.
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I'm afraid I'm very optimistic - and moralistic.
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Don't be afraid to have nothing.
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There isn’t anything I have to be afraid of, love is the answer.
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Women are afraid. It is unpopular to question the bible. They are creatures of tradition. They fear to question their position in the testament, as they feared to advocate suffrage fifty years ago. Now they are quarreling as to which were among the first to advocate it. You see they are not used to abuse as I am. In Albany, fifty years ago, when I went before the legislature to plead for a married woman's right to her own property, the women whom I met in society crossed the street rather than speak to me.
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Are you afraid of the good you might do?
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Knowing how to age and not being afraid of aging is very healthy.
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I don't like the dark. I really am afraid of the dark.
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Are you afraid? Remember the "fear nots" of the Bible.
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I had gone through life thinking that I was better than everyone else and at the same time, being afraid of everyone. I was afraid to be me.
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Don't be afraid to make horrendous errors. Don't be scared to go with your gut feeling.
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They wanted to know, you see. They were afraid that with our typical Austrian faces, we might be able to pass. They didn’t want to be fooled. Even then, in the 1920s, they wanted to be able to tell who was a Jew.
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Do you think I was born in a wood to be afraid of an owl?
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As long as enough people can be frightened, then all people can be ruled. I am afraid that's how it works in a democracy.
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He was on fire, she could almost touch the rage. He could scare people. He could make anyone afraid, if he wanted to.
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Sometimes when you sing someone else's song over and over again or songs that have been given to you, you're afraid to go out there and write one yourself.
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I've always been more afraid of being left alone or left out than of things that go bump in the night.
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As for sacred polyphony, there is no reason to be afraid of it.
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We’ve been so afraid; so hell bent on destroying enemies; both foreign and domestic, we’ve hurt ourselves and our democracy. Time to wake up.
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A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.
