Quotes About Being Afraid

#1. The Answer is that I am afraid
...

Afraid of Connection with human beings
Afraid of Being Alone
Afraid of be with my opinion

Deyth Banger

#2. I figured out that I'm much more afraid of not being with you than I am being with you.

Kasey Michaels

#3. Every human being makes mistakes, so why should you be afraid? Go to the One who can get rid of the mistakes and tell him, 'Sir, these are the kind of mistakes I make', so he will show you the solution.

Dada Bhagwan

#4. The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance.
Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you
find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.

Debbi Fields

#5. My biggest fear has always been being 40 and hating my job. I love challenges. I'm not afraid to try anything.

Carla Hall

#6. The primary thing I should do, apart from being a good husband, brother, son, and friend, is to be a citizen activist. But I'm afraid it takes away from the writing. Not that anything depends on whether I put an essay in 'The Nation' or not. But you want to participate.

Tony Kushner

#7. Without thinking, I asked, "Are you afraid of temptation?"
He shook his head. "God, no. Just being with you, just seeing you. Fuck." He mostly swallowed the expletive, his hips rolling in a way that made me think the movement was instinctual, then added on a rush, "You breathing tempts me.

Penny Reid

#8. I feel like I have a very unique perspective especially for someone in the hip-hop genre. I'm not afraid to explore it, and how my upbringing then shapes my music and being a New York kid and all of that stuff ... that's really the most unique thing I can offer to the music in general.

Hoodie Allen

#9. You can spend the rest of your life being afraid of people rejecting you. You have to start by not rejecting yourself. You don't deserve it.

Rae Earl

#10. 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.

Dennis Wholey

#11. I was afraid of being a failure, of not having the best time or of being chicken. But every year I get older I think, What was I fearing last year?' You forget. And then you move on.

Sandra Bullock

#12. When I go to a library and I see the librarian at her desk reading, I'm afraid to interrupt her, even though she sits there specifically so that she may be interrupted, even though being interrupted for reasons like this by people like me is her very job.

Aaron Swartz

#13. That's silly, Anna," said the Honorable Olive. "Being afraid is silly, you know it is.

Eva Ibbotson

#14. Socrates: I'm afraid that it might actually be sacrilegious to stand idly by while morality is being denigrated and not try to assist as long as one has breath in one's body and a voice to protest with.

Plato

#15. Don't be afraid to be yourself and don't let anybody tell you that that's wrong. Because the best thing is you.

Willow Smith

#16. Here's a woman who had survived the centrifuge, the vomit comet, hard-landing drills and 10k runs. A woman who fixed a simulated MDV computer failure while being spun around upside-down. But she was afraid of a tattoo needle.

Andy Weir

#17. The secret to not being afraid is to understand what scares you

Deborah Wiles

#18. Be fearless in trying new things, whether they are physical, mental, or emotional, since being afraid can challenge you to go to the next level.

Rita Wilson

#19. I loved the preacher so much. I loved him because he loved Winn-Dixie. I loved him because he was going to forgive Winn-Dixie for being afraid. But most of all, I loved him for putting his arm around Winn-Dixie like that, like he was already trying to keep him safe.

Kate DiCamillo

#20. I guess if you're independent, not afraid of much, and extremely stylish, that makes you a pretty good candidate for being a New Yorker.

Mark Indelicato

#21. I used to fear living a life untouched by God, but now, for some reason I've gone back to being afraid of cement mixers.

Dana Gould

#22. They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out.

C.S. Lewis

#23. I've always wanted not to give a fuck. While crying helplessly into my pillow for no good reason, I would often fantasize that maybe someday I could be one of those stoic badasses whose emotions are mostly comprised of rock music and not being afraid of things.

Allie Brosh

#24. If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#25. Don't try to be unafraid. That is impossible. Rather, go ahead while being afraid. That is the entire secret for abolishing fear. The Supermind teaches us to have no self-concern at all. Whatever happens to you, act as though it happened to someone else.

Vernon Howard

#26. Opening myself to criticism was a big door to go through. You can be afraid about something your whole life, about being out in public where people know your name but not you, and it can cripple your ability to try new things.

Peggy Rathmann

#27. We so much want social connection that we become afraid to say something that might make another person reject us. And yet, being vulnerable and having empathy are the most connecting things we can practice.

Iben Dissing Sandahl

#28. You're so afraid of being hurt that you attack first. Only those who really care about you will weather the assault of your verbal attacks and stay. The rest will fall away.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#29. You and I? It may end badly. I may get hurt. But guess what? I don't care! I've never had my heart broken. Maybe I'm fine with risking it, because it's better than being afraid and going through life bored.

Jasinda Wilder

#30. I guess it's better to have a chalk smile, than an ink smile. Where chalk changes with the direction of wind, ink stays as a deep stain. Like rain, sun and hail against a fake plant.

Anthony Liccione

#31. Being senior enough in the field, having enough solidity, I don't feel afraid of being marginalized.

Elizabeth Blackburn

#32. For once, I wished I wasn't so broken, so Rhian had a best friend who was strong and not afraid to love, to hold up as an example of what was possible. Instead, I was her excuse that she wasn't being irrational. I was her enabler.

Samantha Young

#33. The group was not afraid of being radical either; they could see the good Roosevelt was doing, despite what Mother and Dad said; they were not taken in by party labels and thought the Democrats should be given a chance to show what they had up their sleeve.

Mary McCarthy

#34. Daemon parked as far away as he could, obviously more afraid of getting dings in Dolly's side then us being eaten by Bigfoot.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#35. Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, 'I'm not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth.' Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, 'Yes, I deserve it.'

Maya Angelou

#36. Part of being alive is having life change us. The people around us, the events we live through, all of them shape us. And that's what I think you're afraid of. Maybe not of dying. But of this you, the you you've become, ceasing to exist.

Amie Kaufman

#37. Here is my biggest takeaway after 60 years on the planet: There is great value in being fearless. For too much of my life, I was too afraid, too frightened by it all. That fear is one of my biggest regrets.

Diane Keaton

#38. I'm still afraid of things, obviously - we're human. But I like that feeling of being afraid.

India.Arie

#39. Because she is afraid of not being supported, she unknowingly pushes away the support she needs.

John Gray

#40. Don't be afraid of being the person you have become.

Albert Espinosa

#41. The double jeopardy of being black and female in a racist and sexist society may well make one less afraid of the sanctions against success. A non-subservient black woman is by definition a transgressive- she is the ultimate outsider.

Mamphela Ramphele

#42. Sometimes, if she was afraid, she'd take all her fear and gather it up and turn it into anger. Anger didn't paralyze the way fear did. It was the opposite of being helpless. But it was dangerous too, because you could end up being angry all the time.

Dan Krokos

#43. The homes
I've built
in people
are falling
apart
and I'm
afraid
of being
homeless.

Ameena Karaja

#44. An Englishman is never afraid of being laughed at. He just thinks the other fellow is a fool. But Americans still can't risk anybody laughing at them.

Pearl S. Buck

#45. He knows about things like betrayal, and being afraid, and the looks on people's faces when they know you did something they thought impossible

Tamora Pierce

#46. Lots of people misunderstand this. They think not experiencing fear means they're courageous. Bravery isn't about not being afraid, it's about persevering despite your fears.

Kim Du-han

#47. All office workers are afraid of being late for work.

Stefan Zweig

#48. Some people are so much afraid of being deceived, that they never venture to trust; like misers, their avarice destroys their gain.

Norm MacDonald

#49. Needing people yet being afraid of them is wearing me out.

Janice Galloway

#50. Shift from being afraid of making a mistake to being afraid of not making a mistake. If you are not making any mistakes, you are not learning or growing

Susan Jeffers

#51. You were struggling to break free of being my daughter but unsure of how to be yourself, while I was afraid to let you go. It's the circle of love.

Kristin Hannah

#52. I'm still afraid of being totally honest. I'm more afraid of this than dying.

Natsuo Kirino

#53. Fear is a force that sharpens your senses. Being afraid is a state of paralysis in which you can't do anything.

Marcus Luttrell

#54. They were nice enough people and all, but there wasn't much love in them. Because they were too busy being afraid. Love didn't grow very well in a place where there was only fear, just as plants didn't grow very well in a place where it was always dark.

Stephen King

#55. When I was young, I spent my days and nights trying to impress future generations. I spent them. They're gone. All because I was deathly afraid of being forgotten. And then came the regret. The worst things of all worst things.

Miguel Syjuco

#56. Male pride is not really about pride. It's about fear - the fear of being seen as feminine. And that's why "girl stuff" is so dangerous. And as long as most men remain deathly afraid of it, they'll continue to take it out on the rest of us.

Julia Serano

#57. Many women do not want to venture out into the 'opinion world' until they are certain of themselves, the facts, and that they are right. They are afraid of being shot down. The result is often silence.

Madeleine M. Kunin

#58. To ignore death and to be afraid of it is dumb because everyone is going to face it at some point. If you look at death and the reality of it, you realize that we're all going to die, so let's use this time on Earth to be positive and do good things.

Ray Toro

#59. I'm motivated by fear ... a fear of fear. I hate being afraid to do something.

Will Smith

#60. Not being afraid to make changes is a valuable tool - knowing you can change back.

Tori Amos

#61. Nothing ever killed more people than being afraid to look like a sissy.

James S.A. Corey

#62. It would be too frightening for me to consider myself a role model. But I like the idea of not being afraid of letting your imagination rule you, to feel the freedom of expression, to let creativity be your overwhelming drive rather than other things.

Florence Welch

#63. And I'll look back at him because I shan't be able to help it, remembering about being young, and about being made love to and making love, about pain and dancing and not being afraid of death, about all music I've ever loved, and every time I've been happy.

Jean Rhys

#64. I often tell people to stop being afraid of writing bad poetry, or bad anything. I think that a lot of times, when people claim that they have writer's block, or that they get stuck, it's just because they're scared of writing bad things.

Sarah Kay

#65. Fear is a big reason. Ultra achievers don't have an attitude for overcoming fear. They just do it anyway, because they're okay with being afraid. Instead of putting energy into reducing fear, they confront it with action.

Rory Vaden

#66. I've never been afraid of being alone. For the sake of my work, I must be!

Ochiai Naoyuki

#67. I've got to stop this. Stop worrying about the why. Stop forcing what was happening into the realm of impossible. Stop hiding behind excuses. Stop being afraid to step out on faith.

Deatri King-Bey

#68. His impunity thrills me, I mistake it for fearlessness, though years later he will admit to being afraid all the time.

Nick Flynn

#69. Too many men are afraid of being fools.

Henry Ford

#70. The truth is, we want to be known; we truly do. But we're afraid. If you see the real me, will you run away? Am I even worth being known? Will the real me bore you? Scare you? Repulse you? And so we hide.

Gary L. Thomas

#71. Don't look back with tears, look forward with joy; and grab every bit of happiness you can. Don't waste your life being afraid to try new things, and don't be afraid of rejection, be afraid of rejecting what you know is right, in your heart.

Pippa Franks

#72. I'm not afraid of being dead. I'm just afraid of what you might have to go through to get there.

Pamela Bone

#73. You said on my birthday that you were afraid of being alone, but I've been here this whole time. This whole time.

Stephanie Perkins

#74. We can raise our sights high when we're willing to break free from being conformists who live a conventional life simply because we are too afraid to express our uniqueness.

Alexandra Stoddard

#75. There are always a few, Claire, who like being told what to do instead of being required to think. And those are the ones you should fear. That goes equally for humans, I'm afraid. Critical thinking has become a sadly rare skill these days.

Rachel Caine

#76. Sixty-four percent of managers in the U.S. are afraid to be alone in a room with a woman. Mentoring is all about being alone in a room with someone. Let's start talking about this honestly. The lack of equal access is the silent killer for women and no one wants to talk about it.

Sheryl Sandberg

#77. I'm convinced that each human being more or less builds his own reality. You are what you believe you are. We make images in our minds of what will be---based on what we believe or want, what we're afraid of---

Kristen D. Randle

#78. You think my heart will be broken?" "I think your heart will learn. The heart can't be broken if you don't let it break. Let it, Hawthorne. People are so afraid of being broken that they don't allow themselves to learn from the pain. The heart can't be taught if you don't give it something to learn.

R.K. Ryals

#79. I was afraid of being judged too harshly. But I'd let those fears overwhelm me for far too long.

Karen Elson

#80. Being afraid, being uncertain you'll succeed, but going ahead anyway - that's what makes a hero, Berhanu.

Kim Fielding

#81. Generosity is a willingness to give, to open without philosophical or pious or religious motives, just simply doing what is required at any moment in any situation, not being afraid to receive anything.

Chogyam Trungpa

#82. Between normality and madness, which are basically the same thing, there exists an intermediary stage: it is called "being different." And people were becoming more and more afraid of "being different.

Paulo Coelho

#83. If I was afraid of being killed, I would never speak out against the government.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#84. I'm not afraid of being dead, that's to say there's nothing to be afraid of. I won't know I'm dead, would be my strong conviction. And if I find that I'm alive in any way at all, that'll be a pleasant surprise. I quite like surprises.

Christopher Hitchens

#85. It beings with fear, passion begins with a fear. Fear is the trembling of faith. One cannot have faith without being afraid. One cannot have faith, no human being. Being human is that: to have faith that's been fractured then stuck back together.

Helene Cixous

#86. If God is Trinity and Jesus is the face of God, then it is a benevolent universe. God is not someone to be afraid of, but is the Ground of Being and on our side.

Richard Rohr

#87. Give voice to what you know to be true, and do not be afraid of being disliked or exiled. I think that's the hard work of standing up for what you see.

Eve Ensler

#88. She is holding on tight to this talk of flowers, as I did before, when I was afraid and alone. If you sing and speak of blooms and petals that come back after a long time of being winter-still, you don't have to think about things that don't.

Ally Condie

#89. Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable.

Adolf Loos

#90. An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.

Edwin Land

#91. Why are we still afraid of being other than men? Women are still in hiding.

Lucy R. Lippard

#92. Now perhaps an excessive dread of overpopulation
overcrowding
reflects not an outward reality, but an inward state of mind. If you feel overcrowded when you're not, what does that mean? Maybe that you're afraid of human contact
of being close to people, of being touched.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#93. Rather than being afraid to ask for help, remember this: When you ask someone to help you, you are actually doing them a tremendous favor by giving them an opportunity to feel needed.

Richard Carlson

#94. Don't be afraid to make things up. Never fear being exposed as a fraud. Experts make things up all the time. They're qualified to.

Stephen Colbert

#95. I am an Agnostic because I am not afraid to think. I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.

Clarence Darrow

#96. Something good happened to my writing when I stopped being afraid to do something simple, for the fear that people might think I couldn't do something more complex. Don't be confused by the word simple. Simple is not easy, it is clear voiced, and fearlessly elegant.

Carrie Newcomer

#97. Duty exists and it's real. It means sharing any gift or talent that you have with people who need it. It means not being afraid or selfish or tight - but open.

Eva Ibbotson

#98. Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.

Franklin P. Jones

#99. Tenacity is more than hanging on, which may be but the weakness of being too afraid to fall off. Tenacity is the supreme effort of a man refusing to believe that his hero is going to be conquered ... Remain spiritually tenacious Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

Beth Moore

#100. My wife is my best friend. The thought that people are afraid to go home to their partners for fear of being abused physically or emotionally makes me feel sick. It's not easy but you need to get help and get out.

Shane Filan