Top 100 I Am Afraid Of Quotes
#1. I am AFRAID OF TALKING WITH PEOPLE... MAINLY BECAUSE WORDS LOSE WEIGHT... MAINLY BECAUSE PEOPLE DON'T PUT VALUE ON THEM.
Deyth Banger
#2. Yes," he whispered harshly, "I am afraid. But I will defeat you, all the same. It is you who cannot - will not be allowed to prevail. I swear this by the living Name of the One.
D.R. Ranshaw
#4. My dad was a Presbyterian minister. Yes, I am one of those dreaded P.K.s - Preacher's Kids. Be afraid.
Libba Bray
#5. I am scared of spiders! And I still get a little afraid every time I have to do something new or have to get out in front of a big crowd. The first time I sang "Swag It Out" live, I was really scared.
Zendaya
#6. I will be the Vampire Lestat for all to see. A symbol, a freak of nature - something loved, something despised all of those things. I tell you I can't give it up. I can't miss. And quite frankly I am not in the least afraid.
- Lestat, The Vampire Lestat, p. 532
Anne Rice
#7. I am not afraid of death, Abigail. I am afraid that I might draw back and not be bold in proclaiming the gospel." He hesitated, then said, "And I am afraid that I might not stand firm. That under the heel of the enemy, in pain, I might deny my Lord.
Janette Oke
#8. Behind all of the "I can'ts" are merely "I won'ts." The "I won'ts" mean "I am afraid to" or "I am ashamed to" or "I have too much pride to try, for fear I might fail." Behind that is anger at ourselves and circumstances engendered by pride.
David R. Hawkins
#9. I am only interested in the ideas that become obsessive and make me feel uneasy. The ideas that I'm afraid of.
Marina Abramovic
#10. I am nervous. I'm afraid. But I will stand here in the white hot heat of you.
Pleasefindthis
#11. I am normally afraid of birds and have never dreamt of any bird in my life.
Ingmar Bergman
#12. Nothing to be honest. I am a fighter. I'm crazy already. I'm not afraid of ghosts or anything.
Danny Garcia
#13. I am so afraid that strangers with think me good! and there is a degree of hypocrisy in appearing much better than one is. - Hannah More
Karen Swallow Prior
#14. I don't like the dark. I really am afraid of the dark.
Monica Keena
#15. One day work is hard, and another day it is easy; but if I had waited for inspiration I am afraid I should have done nothing. The miner does not sit at the top of the shaft waiting for the coal to come bubbling up to the surface. One must go deep down, and work out every vein carefully.
Sir Arthur Sullivan
#16. Why am I more cautious as I age instead of the other way around? I wonder if it's all tied in to failure. I tend to forget my gains and remember only the losses. The failures have piled up, wreaking havoc with my confidence until, as an adult, I've become afraid to take chances.
Joan Anderson
#17. People believe in life after death because they are afraid of dying... But I do not believe in life after death BECAUSE I am afraid of dying.
Hiroshi Yamamoto
#18. So long as the most vulnerable people in our population are consigned to places that the rest of us will always shun and flee and view with fear, I am afraid that educational denial, medical and economic devastation, and aesthetic degradation will be inevitable.
Jonathan Kozol
#19. Towers in a modern town are a frill and a survival; they seem like the raised hands of the various churches, afraid of being overlooked, and saying to the forgetful public, Here I am! Or perhaps they are rival lightning rods, saying to the emanations of divine grace, Please strike here!
George Santayana
#20. You say that I'm afraid of being alone, and it's true. I am. And I'm not proud of it. But you need to take a good look at yourself, Anna, because I am NOT the only one in this room who suffers this problem.
Stephanie Perkins
#21. Machines seem to sense that I am afraid of them. It makes them hostile.
Sharyn McCrumb
#22. I am not afraid of my enemies, but by God, you must look out when you get among your friends.
Cornelius Vanderbilt
#23. How was I to be a scientist, father Lion?' Science is knowing. What could I have known? Others always did the knowing, knew what was in me, what should come out of me, what was best for me. I didn't know who I was, what I wanted. I know less now, and I am afraid.
Russell Hoban
#24. Some men are afraid of women who challenge them and demand respect and answers. That's who I am and will always be.
LisaRaye McCoy-Misick
#26. I do have nightmares. So what? I wouldn't trade places with any of the f**kers I killed. Am I afraid of Hell? No. I've been. It's worse than advertised but not as bad as imagined. ~ Brandon Hull
Jayden Hunter
#27. I ... am always half afraid of finding a clever novel too clever
& of finding my own story & my own people all forestalled.
Jane Austen
#28. When He [God] talks of their losing their selves, He means only abandoning the clamour of self-will; once they have done that, He really gives them back all their personality, and boasts (I am afraid, sincerely) that when they are wholly His they will be more themselves than ever.
C.S. Lewis
#29. I think that when you're taking pictures with my principles, you can try anything. Dare to do a lot of things - dare with sexuality, dare to break taboos as long as it remains photogenic. As long as I find an elegance and beauty in it, I am not afraid to tackle anything.
Carine Roitfeld
#30. What is death? Either a transition or an end. I am not afraid of coming to an end, this being the same as never having begun, nor of transition, for I shall never be in confinement quite so cramped anywhere else as I am here.
Seneca.
#31. Reason in language - oh, what an old deceptive female she is! I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have faith in grammar.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#32. I did not say that I am afraid. He is, though, I think. Afraid of his own desire for power.
Megan Whalen Turner
#33. I am very indecisive. I'm always afraid of making the wrong decision.
Katie Leung
#34. I am much afraid that we shall have very greatly hastened the decline and ruin of the New World by our contagion, and that we willhave sold it our opinions and our arts very dear.
Michel De Montaigne
#35. Stop whatever you're doing for a moment and ask yourself: Am I afraid of death because I won't be able to do this anymore?
Marcus Aurelius
#36. I am not so much afraid of death, as ashamed thereof, 'tis the very disgrace and ignominy of our natures.
Thomas Browne
#37. I'm afraid I talk a lot, too much, perhaps. I should have been a lawyer or a college professor or a windy politician, though I'm glad I am not any of these.
Tom Glazer
#38. What I am afraid of is ... Gandhi. He has brains and always tried to put me in the wrong. I have to be on guard and alert all the time.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
#39. It should be, but you're still hesitating. Why?" "I'm afraid of losing who I am, and being only what he lets me be.
Lisa Renee Jones
#40. The thing I am most afraid of is love. When you say you love someone you are giving them license to hurt you.
Dorothy Koomson
#41. God wants to cast out the fear and doubt in your life. Go before Him right now and say, "Lord, this is what I am afraid of ... "
Charles Stanley
#42. Should we force science down the throats of those that have no taste for it ? Is it our duty to drag them kicking and screaming into the twenty-first century ? I am afraid that it is.
George Porter
#43. I myself am not afraid of ghosts; I am afraid of people.
Emilie Autumn
#44. I have built up so much stuff , I am afraid I would cry forever, or have to go to sleep for weeks, or I would want to make some changes, and it is all just so overwhelming that we just keep going and going and going. It's a problem. It creates all kinds of illnesses of the physical and mental kind.
Elizabeth Lesser
#45. I am not afraid of death. What I am afraid of is that I will meet the Saviour and He will say, 'You could have done better'
Spencer W. Kimball
#46. I am very afraid of the devil. A strange confession from the lips of an unbeliever.
Witold Gombrowicz
#47. But you-aren't afraid of me?"
Elliot forced himself not to look away. "Oh I am. But for different reasons."
They stared at each other for a long, agonising moment . Elliot's throat went dry.
Astrid Amara
#48. I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of.
Joss Whedon
#49. A supermodel is kind of that first-name recognition, but I'm not quite ready for that super part yet, and I'm afraid that by the time I am, I'm going to be too old anyway.
Christine Teigen
#50. I am not afraid of nightmares, because mine came true and I lived through them.
Victoria Schwab
#51. I am not afraid of much. I kill all the spiders in my house, and I'm planning to go skydiving. I am into girl power, and I'm very self-sufficient.
Elizabeth Banks
#52. Am I going to be this way for the rest of my life, always waiting for something bad to happen? Will I never truly be able to trust anyone? I worry that when I'm older, I'll be so afraid that people won't like me that I'll have trouble believing it when they actually do.
Jodee Blanco
#53. Some people will have to be afraid. Those who plunder the nation, deliver injustice, will have to feel scared of me. And I am not afraid of admitting this. Government cannot be so lenient that it forgives them.
Narendra Modi
#54. Bob," I say, "a man who is no longer interested in the genetics of inbred hillbilly water unicorns is a man who is no longer interested in life. I am afraid for your priorities, son."
T. Kingfisher
#55. I am not afraid of death, which after all can't be far away. What does frighten me, though, is the halfway stage.
Rosie Thomas
#56. I am afraid of losing what I have already valued.
Rosie Thomas
#57. Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors.
Edsger Dijkstra
#58. I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from cooking three meals a dayspare me from the relentless cage of routine and rote.
Sylvia Plath
#59. I am perfectly qualified to give you an injection. You're not going to tell me you're afraid of a little prick?"
"I wouldn't call you that ...
Anthony Horowitz
#60. Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see
Men not afraid of God afraid of me.
Alexander Pope
#61. I am not afraid of dying. I have lived longer than most people in the world. What scares me is to have a body that works but a brain that is waving goodbye. If that happens, I hope I die quickly.
Henning Mankell
#62. Do not say, 'I am only a boy'; for you shall go to all to whom I send you, and you shall speak whatever I command you. Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you to deliver you, says the Lord.
Jeremiah
#64. I am afraid a monster is grown that will devour all of us. Yet we must fight him.
Isaac Asimov
#65. I am afraid. Not of live, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if it had never been.
Daniel Keyes
#66. A lot of women are afraid of loneliness, so when they see a woman who can live alone, then they think, 'Hmm, I can do that.' But you need an example, and that is why I am proud to say I have divorced three husbands.
Nawal El Saadawi
#67. I am not afraid of being sued by white businessmen. In fact, I should welcome such a law suit.
Carter G. Woodson
#68. In the first dawning of my youth, I begged of Thee chastity, but by halves, miserable wretch that I am; I said, "Give me chastity, but not yet," afraid that Thou tightest hear me too soon, and heal me of the disease which I wished to have satisfied rather than cured.
Augustine Of Hippo
#69. Our own poor poets, I am afraid, have been so intimidated by our clinics and laboratories that they have abandoned the first principles of beginning, that of the festival; and the heart of the festival has always been the atmosphere of myth, of delight.
Joseph Campbell
#70. I think writing for me has always been a matter of fear. Writing is fear and not writing is fear. I am afraid of writing and then I'm afraid of not writing.
Fran Lebowitz
#71. I am afraid of falling into hopeless despair, over my wasted life, and I am still not sure how it happened.
Margaret Atwood
#72. When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference whether or not I am afraid.
Audre Lorde
#73. I have an innate incompetence for anything mechanical. It has always seemed to me that a machine can tell from far away that I am afraid of it and that I don't understand anything about it, and breaks down on the spot out of sheer self-preservation.
Heda Margolius Kovaly
#74. In any nation in which people's rights have been subordinated to the rights of the few, in any totalitarian nation, the first institution to be dismantled is the jury. I was, I am, afraid.
Gerry Spence
#75. Do you know that I am afraid that good people do a great deal of harm in this world? Certainly the greatest harm they do is that they make badness of such extraordinary importance.
Oscar Wilde
#76. I never accept lengthy film roles nowadays, because I am always so afraid I will die in the middle of shooting and cause such awful problems.
John Gielgud
#77. I am not afraid of death, but would not want to die in some obscure or pointless way.
Isabelle Eberhardt
#78. Can I have a final request in case I don't make it?"
"Anything."
"I haven't been kissed in five years, kiss me Trajan," she whispered. "I am so afraid." Trajan slowly pushed his glasses onto the top of his head and brought his lips softly to hers.
Amy Kuivalainen
#79. You think I am afraid to love you, ma fee? Look at me, my only love, and see how you hold my heart in your hands, see how much I love you when you look into my eyes.
Paula Quinn
#81. Show no fear! I am afraid of many things, but I cannot and will not be afraid of death!
Natalie Erin
#82. Serious harm, I am afraid, has been wrought to our generation by fostering the idea that they would live secure in a permanent order of things.
Helen Keller
#83. Even though he's my enemy I don't know anything about him.
Am I afraid to know about him?
Do I want to think of him as a monster rather than a human being? (Sarsa, Basara, Vol. 13)
Yumi Tamura
#84. I think I'm attracted to subjects that I'm afraid of. It's a way to approach things I am afraid of, things that bring fear in my heart, and try to understand them, try to deal with them. It's like demons. I try to approach it and understand it ... I'm just visiting fears.
Denis Villeneuve
#85. I'm not brave,' Ava replied huskily. 'If you only knew how afraid I really am. Sometimes I think I am afraid of everything.' 'But isn't that what being brave is all about? Being afraid, but doing it anyway?
Kate Forsyth
#86. I know what you are known as ... but to me, you will always be Tom Riddle. It is one of the irritating things about old teachers. I am afraid that they never quite forget their charges' youthful beginnings.
J.K. Rowling
#87. I said with great dignosity, Father, I am afraid I can't discuss my private life with you as I have a date with Lord of the Flies.
Louise Rennison
#88. Never worry. Be ever cheerful. Always laugh and smile. You can use the following powerful autosuggestion: "Mr. Worry, goodbye to you. I am a different person now. I am made of sterner stuff." Worry will now be afraid to show his face to you. You can then remove the worries of many of your friends.
Sivananda
#89. But I may also be afraid.
I am afraid.
I have already read it. And, not to lie to you, I liked it. But I am afraid. I am not afraid of you, Fidelia, Sania, Ania. I am afraid of you.
(I put all this in my separate notebook. My doubtbook.)
Helene Cixous
#90. But come here, Fear. / I am alive! / And you are so afraid / of dying.
Joy Harjo
#91. It's all nonsense. It's only nonsense. I'm not afraid of the rain. I am not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I wish I wasn't.
Ernest Hemingway,
#92. Anyone who knows me, knows that I am not afraid of anything.
Cindy Sheehan
#93. His words remind me of the strange whispers that have accompanied my illusions - something dark and vengeful, tempting and powerful. A weight presses on my chest. I am afraid. Intrigued.
Marie Lu
#94. Precious Auntie, what is our name? I always meant to claim it as my own. Come help me remember. I'm not a little girl anymore. I'm not afraid of ghosts. Are you still mad at me? Don't you recognize me? I am LuLing, your daughter.
Amy Tan
#95. No one sleeps more beautifully than you. But i am afraid that you will waken just now, and touch me with an indifferent glance, lightly passing, and commit the murder of beauty.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
#96. I am no longer afraid to face what is meant to be, but I am not so sure of what exactly I want for the future either.
Ramona Matta
#97. I am afraid I am not quite so much the man of the world as might be good for me in some points. My feelings are not quite so evanescent, nor my memory of the past under such easy dominion as one finds to be the case with men of the world.
Jane Austen
#98. You are crying! You are afraid of me! And yet I am not really wicked. Love me and you shall see! All I wanted was to be loved for myself.
Gaston Leroux
#99. I am not afraid of a person who knows 10000 kicks. But I am afraid of a person who knows one kick but practices it for 10000 times.
Bruce Lee
#100. I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be.
Billy Connolly
