Afraid Quotes

The biggest problem is people are afraid of poetry, think they can't understand it or that it will be boring.

When I was younger, many of my romantic escapades were just a means of simply avoiding being by myself. I was afraid of feeling lonely, afraid I wouldn't know what to say to myself.

I'm not a great deductive thinker, but I will admit to having competence in a very wide range of things - not being afraid to try to write about baseball, choral music and dinosaurs in the same week and see connections among them.

It started when I woke up, all I wanted to do is jump out of the window. I didn't want to eat anymore, because I was afraid that I might poison myself somehow.

It's not that we fly by the seat of our pants. We're not afraid of failure.

I think sometimes that people think brave means not being afraid, which of course it doesn't mean that at all. It means that you're afraid, but you move past that and do it anyway, do what you think is right.

I thought, If I'm so afraid of a bikini, there's something wrong. And so I had to get back into one!

In terms of fear, I still am most afraid of Freddie Kruger.

There's the great line: the definition of a liberal is someone who's afraid to take their own side in a fight. And that's my problem with my fellow liberals.

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

It's fear of being afraid that frightens me more than anything else.

America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children.

If you're afraid to live your life in a glass bubble, how can you do what we do in this industry?

I wrote a book called The Taste of New Wine because I couldn't find a book that talked about the reality of the situation and how we were dishonest and afraid.

People pay a million dollars to be recognized, but nobody cares about them. They cared about me because I did things other men were afraid to do. That's why my fans identified with me.

I'm deathly afraid of rats.

You know, I don't read the blogs, or go on the internet, and I really just don't know what people are saying because... well I guess I'm afraid to.

The most important thing I think we need to remember is that we're a work in progress. Do not be ashamed or afraid to ask for help. That's what I did. I asked for help.

Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin.

We shouldn't any of us be afraid of teaching protective measures to save lives.

Because I am afraid of commitment. This movie certainly has some bearing and is some reflection of my real feeling about relationships, because I do have commitment issues. My friends tell me I have intimacy problems, but they don't know me, so who cares what they think?

And I'm afraid, in this day and age, trust, which I count so, you know, I love loyalty. I love trust.

I began to ration my writing, for fear I would dream through life as my father had done. I was afraid I had inherited a poisoned gene from him, a vocation without a gift.

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.

When I was a kid, I was afraid of other kids.

We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ignorant, to keep ourselves from not shining. We are so afraid of our beauty and radiance and brilliance because it scared the adults around us when we were children.

I am not afraid of being sued by white businessmen. In fact, I should welcome such a law suit.

I believe it is my duty as a performer to raise issues in the world of things we're afraid to look at.

If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.