I Am Afraid Quotes

#1. I should think that to hear such lovely music as that would really make him feel better."
The lady gave a discriminating smile.
"I am afraid there are moments in life when even Beethoven has nothing to say to us. We must admit, however, that they are our worst moments.

Henry James

#2. I am afraid there'll be a moment when
I fail you, friend; I will turn slightly
Away, our eyes will not meet, and out in the field
There will be no one.

Robert Bly

#3. I am afraid the greatest prison that people live in is the fear what other people think ... Grow up & lose the fear.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#4. I am afraid of him now. The one I love most in the world.

Neil Jordan

#5. I am afraid I won't have you, and I'm afraid I will.

C.D. Reiss

#6. I am afraid of him, of all men who are successful in love.

James Salter

#7. I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ (2 Cor. 11:3). Sin is the move away from simple devotion to Christ. Sin is spiritual complexity.

Tony Reinke

#8. I am afraid of death, scared by it. I already don't know whether I exist or not. So dying really terrifies me.

Stephen Rea

#9. In passing I draw attention to another English expression which often occurs in Dutch texts: "the real world". In Dutch - and I am afraid not in Dutch alone - its usage is almost always a symptom of a violent anti-intellectualism.

Edsger Dijkstra

#10. I am not finding pregnancy much of a joy. I am afraid of childbirth, but I am afraid I can't find a way of avoiding it.

Brigitte Bardot

#11. I am afraid t put it into words, this fragile impossible hope of mine, and more afraid not to.

Kristin Hannah

#12. I am afraid much of my existence is going to be more or less alone, and I might as well go into training for it. It comes on me at night mostly, in little waves of panic, that constrict something in my stomach. But don't you think it is good to fight these things?

Elaine Steinbeck

#13. I don't trust Santa Barbara as far as I can spit. I am afraid that if I went back there, it's possible that I could be run through their system, their judicial system, and wind up in some county jail where I could be killed and I'm not gonna take that chance.

Randy Quaid

#14. 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

#15. I am afraid that I do not hold with the theory of 'global warming' - there will always be climate change ... Big thing here is - do we know what we are doing that is bringing about climate change? At present the answer to this is NO.

Kevin Warwick

#16. I am afraid of losing what I have already valued.

Rosie Thomas

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. No moral to this story, you will be saying, and I am afraid it is true.

Joan Aiken

#20. I am afraid if there is anything to be afraid of. A precipice cannot hurt you. Lions and tigers can. The streets of New York I consider more dangerous than the Matterhorn to a thoroughly competent and careful climber.

Annie Smith Peck

#21. You have defied not the pearl buyers, but the whole structure, the whole way of life, and I am afraid for you

John Steinbeck

#22. I am sick of death and worst of all this sickness feeds on itself, the more afraid I am the more I am afraid the more I flee the more I am afraid the more I am haunted.

Helene Cixous

#23. Others fear what the morrow may bring. I am afraid of what happened yesterday.

Aziz Ansari

#24. For all the sublimity of the cause for which we fought, we surely created a Belsen of our own. The method was impersonal, but the result was equally cruel and heartless. That, I am afraid, is a sickening truth.

Kurt Vonnegut

#25. My biggest strength is I'm courageous, or if I am afraid of something, I do it anyway. I do what I feel. It's nothing personal against anyone, so that courageousness has been very good to me.

Keith Stanfield

#26. Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love. Why Bilbo Baggins? Perhaps because I am afraid, and he gives me courage.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#27. I am afraid, Torvald, I do not exactly know what religion is ... When I am away from all this, and am alone, I will look into that matter too. I will see if what the clergyman said is true, or at all events if it is true for me.

Henrik Ibsen

#28. I am afraid a monster is grown that will devour all of us. Yet we must fight him.

Isaac Asimov

#29. No man can observe you as I have observed you and not know that it was a matter of conscience with you, but I am afraid, my friend, that it is one of the blunders of virtue." The

Stephen Crane

#30. I am afraid of Mr. Powell. I am more afraid of him than I have ever been of shadows or the thunder or when you look through the little bubble in the glass of the window in the upstairs hall and all of the out-of-doors stretches and twists its neck.

Davis Grubb

#31. Thou hast become dark and cannot hear me. When I die shall I not be like Enkidu? Sorrow enters my heart. I am afraid of death.

Anonymous

#32. I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.

Daniel Keyes

#33. I am afraid. Not of live, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if it had never been.

Daniel Keyes

#34. Frank Farrelly ... must be thought of with respect (perhaps even delight?) by his clients who have so far played the game of therapy with their therapists, but, I am afraid, also a shocking example for those therapists who, in Laing's words, 'are playing at not playing a game'.

Paul Watzlawick

#35. I am afraid I am a constant disappointment to my party. The fact of the matter is, the longer I am president the less of a party man I seem to become.

William Howard Taft

#36. I fear nomads. I am afraid of them and afraid for them too.

Jane Bowles

#37. I am afraid I shall disappoint people's expectations dreadfully.

Jude Morgan

#38. I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices, or a voice. I have come to the edge, of the land. I could get pushed over.

Margaret Atwood

#39. I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

Alexander The Great

#40. Mr. Knightley, if I have not spoken, it is because I am afraid I will awaken myself from this dream.

Jane Austen

#41. I don't own my emotions unless I can think about them. I am not afraid of feeling but I am afraid of feeling unthinkingly. I don't want to drown. My head is my heart's lifebelt.

Jeanette Winterson

#42. There is no end. No wrong turn. No structure. Only space. You say: 'I am afraid I am going to hit a wall.' Well, guess what - it's made of space.

Bentinho Massaro

#43. I am afraid of radium and polonium ... I don't want to monkey with them.

Thomas A. Edison

#44. I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you'll have to do something for it.

Joseph Conrad

#45. 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

#46. I don't know if I had success or not. But I am afraid of myself. Why am I afraid of myself? I always feel - I don't know - weak in the sense of not having power and also power is a fleeting thing, here today, gone tomorrow.

Pope Francis

#47. 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

#48. I am afraid of falling into hopeless despair, over my wasted life, and I am still not sure how it happened.

Margaret Atwood

#49. I am not afraid of the possibility of finding intelligent life in the universe, I am afraid of the possibility of them finding us

Peyton J Glenn

#50. I don't look girls in the eyes, I am afraid to fall in love

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#51. I am afraid the church is trying to speak out on too many issues that really do not concern the church. There are certain issues we know to be wrong - racial injustice, crime, gambling, dishonesty, pornography. On these matters we must thunder forth as the prophets of God.

Billy Graham

#52. When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference whether or not I am afraid.

Audre Lorde

#53. Laziness, I am afraid, was Charles's distinguishing trait.

John Fowles

#54. This world, I am afraid, is designed for crashing bores.

Morrissey

#55. A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Abraham Lincoln

#56. 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

#57. 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

#58. I was afraid... I am afraid of loving you, knowing that someday you will go and leave me here.

Danielle L. Jensen

#59. Give what name you like to my presentiments, but I am afraid that my happiness will be paid for by some horrible catastrophe.

Honore De Balzac

#60. But they are murderers, madam! I am afraid of murderers!
(Jeffery, the footman in The Pirate Next Door)

Jennifer Ashley

#61. There are some things I am afraid of: I am afraid to do a mean thing.

James A. Garfield

#62. I could keep going forever, listing all my flaws in order from the most innocuous to the least. I am afraid of spiders ... I fall in love too easily ... I have fierce spells of self-doubt.

Nina LaCour

#63. If I went back to Zimbabwe, I am not afraid of the police or the soldiers. I am afraid of those elements which are being used by the regime. People who have nothing, I mean, who don't care whether they are paid $50 to kill someone, they could just do it for.

Thomas Mapfumo

#64. I am afraid of people with too much charm. They devour you. In the end you are made a sacrifice to the exercise of their fascinating gift and their insincerity.

W. Somerset Maugham

#65. 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

#66. I am afraid that you have been listening to the conversation of someone older than yourself. That is always a dangerous thing to do, and if you allow it to degenerate into a habit, you will find it absolutely fatal to any intellectual development.

Oscar Wilde

#67. Go on," said the priest very gently. "We are only trying to find the truth. What are you afraid of?" "I am afraid of finding it," said Flambeau.

G.K. Chesterton

#68. Almost every song on OK Computer revolves around how I am afraid computers get up at night and attempt to choke me with their wires.*doesn't laugh*

Thom Yorke

#69. When I go mad,
I call my friends by phone:
I am afraid they might think
they're alone.

Theodore Roethke

#70. 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

#71. The only thing I am afraid of is fear.

Arthur Wellesley

#72. But, alas, he never really belonged in either place, the sad fate, I am afraid, of those whose hearts break and then mend in crooked ways.

Kate DiCamillo

#73. Show no fear! I am afraid of many things, but I cannot and will not be afraid of death!

Natalie Erin

#74. I am afraid for my health. I'm definitely burning the candle a little, at both ends, and I have to be careful about that.

Zachary Levi

#75. 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

#76. I am afraid of the lengths of time, Oyarsa...pg. 123

C.S. Lewis

#77. If the year 2000 can help us move into the future, that's fine, but I am afraid that people see it as a full stop and that one can take a big breath afterwards - you can't.

Graeme Murphy

#78. The book should betray me, in the sense that it should take me to places I am afraid to go

David Grossman

#79. 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

#80. I am afraid that as evangelicals, we think that a work of art only has value if we reduce it to a tract.

Francis A. Schaeffer

#81. I am afraid of her, afraid of what she says-and thrilled by it too, because it means I don't have to accept that I am smaller than I once believed.

Veronica Roth

#82. I believe intelligence and fear are very close together. Guys who say they are not afraid of anything, they are stupid. They are silly to me ... I am afraid of everything

Rickson Gracie

#83. Can you walk the road your dream goes?
Sometimes. Sometimes I am afraid to.
Who is not.
...

Ursula K. Le Guin

#84. Though I admire republican principles in theory, yet I am afraid the practice may be too perfect for human nature. We tried a republic last century, and it failed. Let our enemies try next. I hate political experiments.

Robert Walpole

#85. We all like to think of ourselves as a standard, and I can see that it is genuinely difficult for the English middle class to suppose that the working class is not desperately anxious to become just like itself. I am afraid this must be unlearned.

Raymond Williams

#86. If this is called civilization, then I am afraid humanity is no more civilized than the Tyrannosaurus Rex.

Abhijit Naskar

#87. 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

#88. All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.

Malala Yousafzai

#89. I am afraid that if we begin to put our trust in human help, some of our Divine help will fail us.

Teresa Of Avila

#90. How can I write about this when I am afraid of not having time to finish and of stirring up all these thoughts in vain?

Vladimir Nabokov

#91. Life, wherever it reveals itself; truth, no matter how bitter; bold, sincere speech with people - these are my leaven, these are what I want, this is where I am afraid of missing the mark.

Modest Mussorgsky

#92. I am afraid, monsieur, you will have to kill me first, and I have a prejudice against being killed before nine o'clock.

Rafael Sabatini

#93. I am afraid to live in the society we live in today. Our society cannot be maintained by this type of incompetency.

Jacque Fresco

#94. 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

#95. I am afraid of people because they want me to lead the same kind of life as they do. They want me to dance jolly and cheerful things. I do not like jollity. I love life.

Vaslav Nijinsky

#96. I hope I'm wrong, but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be the greatest disaster in American foreign policy - worse than Vietnam, not in the number who died, but in terms of its unintended consequences and its reverberation throughout the region.

Madeleine Albright

#97. Air travel is the safest form of travel aside from walking; even then, the chances of being hit by a public bus at 30,000 feet are remarkably slim. I also have no problem with confined spaces. Or heights. What I am afraid of is speed.

Sloane Crosley

#98. If I am afraid to speak the truth lest I lose affection, or lest the one concerned should say, "You do not understand", or because I fear to lose my reputation for kindness; if I put my own good name before the other's highest good, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

Amy Carmichael

#99. My mentors grow old and foolish. I am afraid.

Mason Cooley

#100. The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature of human affairs can scarce admit a remedy.

Adam Smith