Top 100 Been Afraid Quotes
#1. The truth is, I've always been afraid of letting anyone get too close. I built a wall around me, a barricade to hide behind those few times someone wanted entry to my heart.
Ellen Hopkins
#2. I've been afraid of people playing their life away with too many toys.
Ray Bradbury
#3. Mad woman on another tour;
Everything she is she spits out on the floor.
An old man tells me she's sicker than the rest.
God I've never been afraid like this.
Mark Z. Danielewski
#4. I'm not afraid," Rafi said.
"Why not?"
"If I die tomorrow it will have been useless to have been afraid today.
Mark Helprin
#5. When you've been afraid of something for long enough and it comes to pass, the terrible thing is a release. For in the belly of the badness there is no more fear.
Lionel Shriver
#6. I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
Nadine Gordimer
#8. The truth is, I'm so deep in love with you, I can't see straight. The truth is, I've been afraid to admit it to myself, let alone you. The truth is, I'm terrified.
Fisher Amelie
#9. I've never been afraid to step out and to reach out and to move out in order to make things happen.
Victoria Gray Adams
#10. By the time he got around to meaning it, the words had sounded fraudulent to him and he'd been afraid to pronounce them.
Margaret Atwood
#11. If I'd been afraid," she said, "I never would have started out in the first place."--Grandma Emma Gatewood
Ben Montgomery
#12. Now, don't be angry after you've been afraid. That's the worst kind of cowardice.
Rudyard Kipling
#13. Tim Cook has not been afraid to confront the government on issues he considers morally important.
Laura Sydell
#14. It's interesting that music in this country ... we sort of sold something to America with The Beatles and they sold something back. And we've never been afraid to embrace American style rock 'n' roll and make it our own over here.
Ricky Gervais
#15. I don't normally do big movies. I'm new to this world. And I've always been afraid that jumping onto a big budget film, you would lose the relationships in favour of special effects.
Anne Hathaway
#16. I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.
Taya Kyle
#17. I was no longer, if I had ever been, afraid to die: I was now afraid not to die.
Joan Didion
#18. Every writer in the history of the world has been afraid to put words on the page. But we only remember those who overcame that fear.
M. Kirin
#19. I have never been afraid of making patriots; but I disdain and despise all their efforts.
Robert Walpole
#20. So often I have felt alone in my journey, yet I've been afraid to let anyone see my fear and weakness.
Lynn Austin
#21. Sometimes words spoken are the ones you've been afraid to think,
but once they're said aloud there's no way to make them
disappear
Alice Hoffman
#22. I've always been attracted to things that are taboo. I've never been afraid to go to that dark place.
Ricky Williams
#23. I think I've always been afraid of painting, really. Right from the beginning. All my paintings are about painting without a painter. Like a kind of mechanical form of painting.
Damien Hirst
#24. I wanted to find my limitations so I decided to do Shylock. And if I fail? I've never been afraid of that. I have other fears - doing bad work knowingly is the worst fear.
Dustin Hoffman
#25. Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.
Margaret Mead
#26. All my life,I've been afraid of things, as a child and a woman must be. I lied about it naturally. I fancied myself a witch and walked in dark streets to punish myself for my doubts. But I knew what it meant to be afraid.
Anne Rice
#27. Only those who have never known fear are allowed to think less of others for being afraid. Frankly, I think anyone who has never been afraid of anything in their entire life is either a liar or lacks imagination.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#28. I think I've been afraid most of my life to be myself.
J.A. Redmerski
#29. My parents were angry, but they were relieved that I was in good condition. They had been afraid the Russians would torture me. They told me not to do it again!
Mathias Rust
#30. I've been afraid every single day of my life, but I've gone ahead and done it anyway.
Georgia O'Keeffe
#31. I've never been afraid of much, and like any normal kid, I liked to push the limits of what I could do.
Kacy Catanzaro
#32. loving you was like throwing a lasso around a tornado i tried to hold on to you took a ride on a tilt-a-whirl that sits on top of the world i thought i could show you i've always been afraid of flying but you can't blame a girl for trying
The Band Perrry
#33. Do something today you've been afraid to do. A decision based on fear is the wrong decision.
Nathan Fillion
#34. I've never been a waitress, hostess, bartender or any of the typical side jobs you'd expect an actor to have. This is partly because I've always been afraid of dropping plates on customer's heads.
Candace Kita
#35. Seems to me you must always have been afraid to be young. It takes courage, I can tell you that,
L.M. Montgomery
#36. I've been afraid so many times that I am no longer scared to be afraid again.
What can't be cured must be endured.
Robert A. Heinlein
#37. His soul really shone in the dark desperation of our prison ... [Bonhoeffer] had always been afraid that he would not be strong enough to stand such a test but now he knew there was nothing in life of which one need ever be afraid.
Payne Best
#38. And I saw then again, and for good, what I had always been afraid to see, and had pretended not to see in him: that he was a woman as well as a man. Any need to explain the sources of that fear vanished with the fear; what I was left with was, at last, acceptance of him as he was.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#39. She had never been afraid of the dark, but then she had never known a dark like this before.
Alan Brennert
#40. One thing I have is that I have never been afraid to expose myself in a way, and I really think I got that from my mother. That's a great gift you can give to a child, that they have confidence in their abilities.
John Turturro
#41. I've always been afraid that someone would steal my identity some day and be more successful at being me than I am!!
Neil Leckman
#42. To write the essay is to be haunted by our own lies. No story is the whole story. Everything we know is shadowed by what we've missed, forgotten, or been afraid to see.
Sallie Tisdale
#43. They had been afraid of the man with the beautifil eyes. And we were afraid then that all troughout our lives things like that would happen, that nobody wanted anybody to be strong and beautiful like that, that others will never allow it, and that many people will have to die.
Charles Bukowski
#44. My insides contract- bad. "who are you?" I ask right out loud. And he says what I've been afraid of since I killed Lester's father. Haven't you guessed? I'm you. The real you.
Bonnie Shimko
#45. I've always been afraid that somewhere, future time travelers flip through our mirrors as if they were t.v. screens, catching our most awkward and personal moments.
Fran Krause
#46. I have no fear of being less beautiful, I've always been afraid of not being beautiful.
Isabelle Adjani
#47. I had been afraid of the primitive, had wanted it broken gently, but here it came on us in a breath, as we stumbled up through the dung and the cramped and stinking huts to our lampless sleeping place among the rats. It was the worst one need fear, and it was bearable because it was inescapable.
Graham Greene
#48. What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
Audre Lorde
#49. With regard to ghosts, while we have never believed in them, we have always been afraid of them.
Don Marquis
#50. I have never been afraid to go a bit out there with what I am wearing on film. I tend to be a bit more conservative in real life, with mountains of black in my closet.
Jane Badler
#51. We live in a world where, for whatever reason, the conversations that tend to stick are the ones where 'if it bleeds, it leads.' But we've always been afraid of new technologies in spite of the fact that they've helped improve our lives in countless ways.
Jason Silva
#52. The source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have been afraid to think ... Let us dare to read, think, speak, write.
David McCullough
#53. It's not a morbid thing, but I think I've never been afraid of death, which is maybe why I love writing about it.
Aoife O'Donovan
#54. I've never been afraid of them. Not once. Because I had you.
Nicholas Sparks
#56. When things go bad, it's easy to point fingers. People who attempt to switch the blame are afraid to fail. We've all been afraid to fail before a game, but it shouldn't stop us from continuing, and from doing what we have to do to get the job done.
John Elway
#57. Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means making
trouble. There's only one way of escaping trouble; and that's killing things.
George Bernard Shaw
#58. I might have been afraid that if I really loved someone and needed her, one day she might suddenly disappear without a word, and I'd be left all alone.
Haruki Murakami
#59. I have often been afraid, but I would not give in to it. I made myself act as though I was not afraid and gradually my fear disappeared.
Theodore Roosevelt
#60. I have never been afraid to stand up to the leadership on issues where we disagree. If you chose to keep Cambridge Labour, then I can continue to press the Government for the things that matter to you, in a way that members of the opposition are unable to.
Anne Campbell
#61. I know I'm not an easy She-dragon to. not fear." "I'm not afraid of you, Ghleanna. I've never been afraid of you. To be quite honest. I think you're amazing. I always have. Since the first time you ignored me.
G.A. Aiken
#62. I wish I were like you pa. I wish I had not been afraid, all my life! Pg.55
Obehi Peter Ewanfoh
#63. I had been afraid of breast cancer, as I suspect most women are, from the time I hit adolescence. At that age, when our emerging sexuality is our central preoccupation, the idea of disfigurement of a breast is particularly horrifying.
Geraldine Brooks
#64. what they'd been afraid of was running out of self. On the contrary the more they loved the more there was to love.
Helen Oyeyemi
#65. At the same time, I've never been afraid of death or the concept of death.
Alex Lifeson
#66. How could we have been afraid of her? She was only dead. It's the living we fear.
Mercedes Lackey
#67. I have been afraid of putting air in a tire ever since I saw a tractor tire blow up and throw Newt Hardbine's father over the top of the Standard Oil sign.
Barbara Kingsolver
#68. The United States has never been afraid of a challenge. In times of crisis, it is American innovation and ingenuity that has forged the path to progress and prosperity.
Diana DeGette
#69. The one thing I have never been afraid of is standing before important people and speaking my mind. I represent women who may never have the opportunity to go to the UN or meet with a president. I'm never afraid to speak truth to power.
Leymah Gbowee
#70. The ref blew the whistle and the pack took off. The "jostling" from earlier had turned into a "melee" Sun Tzu would have been afraid of.
Shelly Laurenston
#71. 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
#72. I have never been afraid of dying, I have only been afraid of not living fully.
Jeffrey Fry
#73. I've been afraid of changing
cause I built my life around you
Stevie Nicks
#74. No matter what I've Done. And I've done a lot. He's never been afraid of me. Never hated me. You've got to love a person for that. Unconditional Devotion is Blue-moon rare.
April Genevieve Tucholke
#75. I had a book of essays out in 1997 in which I talked about the increasing virtuality of our lives. I've always been afraid of that in my own life.
Steven Heighton
#76. My mom gave me unconditional support and unfailing love. You can't get any better than that. That's why I've never been afraid to lose.
Mike Krzyzewski
#77. I'd grown up fearing the lynch mobs of the Ku Klux Klan; as an adult I was starting to wonder if I'd been afraid of the wrong white people all along - where I was being pursued not by bigots in white robes, but by left-wing zealots draped in flowing sanctimony.
Clarence Thomas
#78. And I saw that all my life I had known that this was going to happen, and that I'd been afraid for a long time, I'd been afraid for a long time. There's fear, of course, with everybody. But now it had grown, it had grown gigantic; it filled me and it filled the whole world.
Jean Rhys
#79. Not being a genius, I believe in collaboration, and my background as a problem solver means I've never been afraid to work with people cleverer than myself.
Daniel Barber
#80. And it seemed to me, too, that I've always been afraid when I was in the company of people ... afraid of saying something stupid ... afraid of being laughed at.
L.M. Montgomery
#81. As a child I was the best tree climber in our neighbourhood, I was like a little monkey. I've never been afraid of hurting myself or a little physical discomfort.
Rachel Weisz
#82. Well, I've been afraid of changing
'Cause I've built my life around you
But time makes you bolder
Even children get older
And I'm getting older too
Stevie Nicks
#83. Southerners have never been afraid of seasoning. It's kind of the other way around; our seasoning is afraid of us.
Paula Deen
#84. If you've never been afraid, you haven't had your moment of bravery just yet
Lauren DeStefano
#85. I think men have always been afraid of women's sexuality, and the restrictions they put on women testify to that.
Erica Jong
#86. He considered the hard times in his life. All the things he had been afraid of. All those years wasted, he told himself, because I was terrified of being different. That's why all us fifty-four-year-olds end up looking so much alike. All of us are terrified of being different.
Stuart McLean
#87. I'm not the kind of person that would step on people just to get where I wanted to be, but I have crossed moral boundaries when I've either been afraid or desperate.
Rene Russo
#88. I've always been afraid of saying no to people because I don't want them to be disappointed and dislike me.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#89. Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.
Abigail Adams
#90. Joy. Fear. Fear, most of all." His hand came up and smoothed my curls away from his nose
"I havena been afraid for a verra long time, Sassenach," he whispered. "But now I think I am. For there is something to be lost, now." Page 394
Diana Gabaldon
#91. In the darkness, I had been afraid that he was evil. At dawn, I realized he had been my friend and guardian, watching over me all night long.
Andrew Klavan
#92. I've been around since the beginning of time, and I've never been afraid until I met you.
Kaitlin Bevis
#93. If you have ever been afraid, you may want to read my memoir.
If you have never been afraid, you may want to read it twice.
Peter Kurt Haarmeyer
#94. I've never been afraid of big moments. I get butterflies.. I get nervous and anxious, but I think those are all good signs that I'm ready for the moment.
Stephen Curry
#95. She did not hate Clent for the way he had spoken. For most of her life she had been at the mercy of stronger and more powerful people who cared nothing for her. She had always been afraid, and her fear had made her angry.
Frances Hardinge
#96. I've never been afraid to fall in love, nor impatient to find it.
Trevor Noah
#97. I have seen sights and travelled in countries you cannot imagine. I have been afraid and I have been in danger, and I have never for one moment thought that I would throw myself at at a man for his help.
Philippa Gregory
#98. What we get when we turn pro is, we find our power. We find our will and our voice and we find our self-respect. We become who we always were but had, until then, been afraid to embrace and to live out.
Steven Pressfield
#99. I've never been afraid of being alone. For the sake of my work, I must be!
Ochiai Naoyuki
#100. I've not been afraid to take risks, be resolute and passionate about purpose, and inspire people to do things that maybe they thought weren't possible.
Mindy Grossman
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