Top 100 Too Scared Quotes
#1. Do you realize how many abusers are walking around unpunished? How many rape charges are dropped because of 'insufficient' evidence, or how many date rapists get away with what they've done because the victim is too scared to tell anyone?
Elle Kennedy
#2. Can we be blamed for feeling we're too old to change? Too scared of disappointment to start it all again? We get up every morning, we do our best. Nothing else matters.
Deborah Moggach
#3. If you're too scared to put your dreams, thoughts, desires, fantasies on paper and share them with the world, then being an author isn't the right career for you.
P.C. Cast
#4. I have always kept a stack of library books next to my bed as a lifeline. If I ever woke in the middle of the night too scared to move or too sad to roll over, the books were my saviors.
Julie Halpern
#5. I tried to go out for theater or theater arts, but I was too scared or too intimidated. But I had a lot of friends on the cross country team that had great senses of humor.
Dana Carvey
#6. When I am in the Scottish Parliament chamber, I often feel the need to sit for the entire debate. It's only courteous to listen to what everyone has to say, although I often find myself desperate to say something but too scared to stand up in case I regret it.
Margo MacDonald
#7. Give every opportunity five minutes. If that's all it's good for, so be it. But I'm not going to miss out on something amazing because I was too scared to take a chance.
G.J. Walker-Smith
#8. Wayne's cool. I ran into him at my hangout back home, and he's just cool. I actually have this beat that I want him on, but I was too scared to get it to Clancy to get to them, but Wayne's cool.
Tyler, The Creator
#9. Did you forget me? Or are you too scared to tell me that you met me in fear that I won't remember?
Drake
#10. I'm too scared to perform onstage. I'm not very good with big crowds.
Alex Pettyfer
#11. Others letting you down is ice cream and cookies compared with the rejection of your own soul. I don't know what is sadder, expecting myself to fail or being too scared to dream of success.
Alessandra Torre
#12. I'm not a huge fan of horror movies myself because I'm a big baby and I get too scared to watch them.
Katrina Bowden
#13. When I was younger, I was ready to go off at any time. My wife, Linda, and I would go out to the Limelight in New York, and I would see people and be able to freeze them with a look. People were even too scared of me to tell me that people were scared of me.
Johnny Ramone
#14. JUST BECAUSE YOU'RE TOO SCARED TO TAKE ANY RISKS DOESN'T MEAN THE REST OF US SHOULD BE.
Cammie McGovern
#15. I've never really been too scared to do anything ...
Ryan Follese
#16. No one got anywhere by being too scared to open their mouth in case nobody laughed.
Catherine Tate
#17. Why do you have to be such a nice guy?"
He flashed his dimples at her. "You've met my mother. Too scared not to be.
Shannon Stacey
#18. Gospel music played a huge part of my life. I was too scared to audition for the choir, but through my own music, I was also able to find spirituality for myself.
Leon Bridges
#19. Drizzt turned and tried to catch him, but the huge man bowled the drow over and continued on. Face first into a tree. Before Drizzt could get over to help, Wulfgar was up again and running, too scared and embarrassed, to even groan.
R.A. Salvatore
#20. I think there's a reason that horror appeals to teens. There's a lot of useful lessons to take away from reading horror. We get to be scared in the comfort and safety of our own homes. We can put the book down if we get too scared, and no one will ever know if we decide not to pick it up again.
Holly Black
#21. may yet be sent away, but at least it will be because I'm not good enough, and not because I was too scared to try. She
M.A. Larson
#22. He knows we need dreams in pieces because we would be too scared of the whole puzzle.
Annie F. Downs
#23. The reason there are bugs in the bed," he explained, "is that they're too scared to get down on the floor.
Nicholas Clapp
#25. The mistakes we regret the most are the ones we were too scared to make
Ollie Slaney
#26. I just love jumping into someone else's life. It is a relatively cheap way to experience things you would be too scared to contemplate in your own life.
Dougray Scott
#27. It's because you're too scared to tell anyone who you really love. Love makes us liars.
Cassandra Clare
#28. It would do none of us any good, runnin' an evil off like we're too weak and too scared to take care of our own problems. As if we zero in bravery and sword. We can't forget, we are the lords of our own 'round here, and we alone hiss back the serpent.
Tiffany McDaniel
#29. The favorite to win the Olympic gold medal in archery is a legally blind athlete from South Korea, mainly because everyone else is too scared to compete next to him.
Jimmy Fallon
#30. I'll deal with your hang-ups if you'll deal with mine, but if you're still too scared to even try, then you're not worth waiting for. I have some goddamn pride left and I won't wait forever.
Charlaine Harris
#31. When I was at Brown, I wanted to write the great American novel, but I was too scared to take a creative course. I signed up for one, got in, and just didn't have the courage to go. I was a tremendously shy person, almost pathologically shy. The thought of peers critiquing my work - oh, God.
Nathaniel Philbrick
#32. I'm still shy - I'm no good at my children's parent-teacher conferences, and I'm slowly learning how to ask for what I want. But I now know that I have a reserve of courage to draw upon when I really need it. There's nothing that I'm too scared to have a go at.
Emily Mortimer
#33. But I wasn't gonna be too scared to love the folks that took the time to love me back, and I sure wasn't gonna chase them that don't.
Susan Crandall
#34. Some people try and fail and they get stuck in that reality. They forget that they entered the race while the other 99% of people sat around too scared to even try.
Nicholas Muir
#35. I am not one of the people who believe that the main reason why a chap becomes a bookmaker is because he is too scared to steal and too heavy to become a jockey.
Noel Whitcomb
#36. If you go to a diner in the middle of America, people are having these conversations, but our politicians are too scared to bring it up because they're worried about offending the 0.002 percent of the country that may somehow be subject to what the conversation may be. And it's ridiculous.
Donald Trump Jr.
#37. A fantasy is nothing more than a dream you were too scared to chase.
Shannon L. Alder
#38. Laugh while you can, sweet girl," I growled against her lips. "I'm going to make you scream all those dirty words you're too scared to say.
Chelle Bliss
#39. But it isn't about perfection, and it isn't about performance. You'll miss the richest moments in life - the sacred moments when we feel God's grace and presence through the actual faces and hands of the people we love - if you're too scared or too ashamed to open the door.
Shauna Niequist
#40. The only advice I can give you is what you're telling yourself. Only, maybe you're too scared to listen.
Neil Gaiman
#41. Performing didn't feel comfortable until I was about 17. I loved to sing, but I always said I would never perform because I was too scared.
Seinabo Sey
#42. I used to love politics. I can't say I do any more. All the fun has gone out of it. Each side is engaged in this trench warfare of managerialism. They're all too scared to say anything that might make them appear something other than completely bland.
Robert Harris
#43. I never tell anyone exactly how clever I am. They would be too scared.
Eoin Colfer
#45. I started watching some 'Doctor Who' recently on my own and got too scared. I had to watch it in the daytime - I'm pathetic.
Miranda Hart
#46. As for being AIDS infested, I don't know yet, I'm too scared to get tested.
Eminem
#47. What we have ... is something most folks wait a lifetime for, and only touch for a heartbeat. They let go too quickly, or they're too scared to hold on, or they never see what's right in front of them. But we're going to hold on as tight as we can. - Jonah Walker
Molli Moran
#48. Why are people afraid of ghosts? 'Ooh, no, I wouldn't want to see one! I'd be too scared' - accompanied by a tremolo of fear in the voice - is the common reaction. This puzzles me. I'd think anyone would welcome he opportunity. I've never heard of a ghost hurting anybody.
Dick Cavett
#49. I went to vote once, but I got too scared. I couldn't decide whom to vote for.
Andy Warhol
#50. Pat Phoenix kept that amazing sassy look. I always wonder, was that because she was thrilled with that look, and thought it looked marvellous, or was it because she was too scared to change it? It's a double thing. Security and insecurity.
Celia Imrie
#52. I wandered familiar streets feeling lost in the darkness, too scared of the stuff inside my head to be afraid of anything outside it.' - ppg 5
Annabel Pitcher
#53. The most successful people in this world recognize that taking chances to get what they want is much more productive than sitting around being too scared to take a shot.
Steve Harvey
#54. I had been working with a community of survivors who had lost their relatives and were too scared to talk about it.
Joshua Oppenheimer
#55. I could never let the teacher down. I always worked hard, too scared to get in trouble.
Zoe Sugg
#56. I believe the potluck tradition of entertaining is the equivalent of a teenage boy wanting to have sex with his girlfriend but who is too scared to go to CVS to buy condoms. If you can't handle providing all the courses for your dinner party, you can't handle the hosting duties of a dinner party.
Mindy Kaling
#57. I used to go out with someone who was a really great diver, and we used to go to all the great dive spots all over the globe - although I would spend most of my time crying because I was often too scared to go into the water. But once I was in the water, I loved it.
Mariella Frostrup
#58. What am I most ashamed of in my life? Not keeping my promise to my sister and being too scared of America to attend her funeral.
Josephine Baker
#59. It was great! Straight-A student. Hanging around nerdy guys too scared to try anything. No wild side at all. You were every father's dream daughter." "Thanks, Dad, I - " "But then you got on a giant bomb that blasted you to Mars. And I mean that literally.
Andy Weir
#60. No matter what, don't live a life where you're too scared to die for what you believe in. Always go at it with everything you've got, even if it doesn't seem to be enough.
A.J. Darkholme
#61. Make mistakes. Make great mistakes , make wonderful mistakes, make glorious mistakes. Better to make a hundred mistakes than to stare at a blank piece of paper too scared to do anything wrong, too scared to do anything.
Neil Gaiman
#62. Ah! There is a plane crash in Lost and now we are going to die in a plane crash while watching Lost! And I'm too scared to tell anyone my cool observation!
Mindy Kaling
#63. I've got this tiny pang of regret when I think of how much I have probably missed out on in the last few years because I was too scared to take a risk, or too shy to speak up, or too worried to be bold. It is my one wild and precious life, after all.
Jessi Kirby
#64. The trouble with scary people is
everyone's too scared
to tell them how scary they are
Janey Colbourne
#65. I think all of us in our lives feel like we can't make a difference or we can't make a change or it's too late or we're too tired or we're too scared.
Kerry Washington
#66. I'd never say I'll never have a facelift, but I'm way too scared of looking like a different person. I have no philosophical or political position on plastic surgery; I just don't want to look crazy. And I don't like not being able to tell how old someone is: It's creepy.
Ellen Barkin
#67. I think white people like to tell Asian people how they should feel about race because they're too scared to tell black people.
Margaret Cho
#68. But I think, personally, that it would be worse to have been alone all that time. Sure, maybe I would have protected my heart from some things, but would that really have been better? To hold myself apart because I was too scared that something might no be forever?
Sarah Dessen
#69. I was tortured, and probably half of it was deserved, but I was bullied - so much so that there were days when I was like, 'I can't go to school today.' I was too scared.
Chelsea Handler
#70. Like everyone in the history of the world who has had a crush on his or her best friend, I was too scared to tell her, because if I did I might lose her completely. And the sharp bite of losing her completely would be far worse than the one-sided romantic arrangement we had going.
Josh Sundquist
#71. You're too scared of what it means to feel anything that matters. You're scared to love, and you hide behind this mission to destroy the code.
Heidi Tankersley
#72. There is no life for girls in team sports past Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this, and because I thought golf would be too slow for me, and I was too scared to swim.
Billie Jean King
#73. Well, I have been in physical altercations, but they weren't really fights because I am too scared and Jewish. So anytime that it gets to a point where there is gonna be a fight, I immediately apologize.
Adam Pally
#74. Going on things like rollercoasters is not really up my street I guess. I don't feel like I need to do stunts. I'm too scared and I don't think it's my job.
Jonathan Meades
#75. Because so often when we say we're unqualified for something, what we're really saying is that we're too scared to try it, not that we can't do it.
Jen Sincero
#76. If we become too scared to confront the chief problems of our time, there is no hope of ever solving them.
Jim DeMint
#77. I was too scared to talk, but I was more scared to not talk.
Rob Sheffield
#78. I'm not going to stay sround to send reapers to kill people who are too scared, or frightened, or JUST PLAIN STUPID to find joy in life.
Kim Harrison
#79. If he didn't love her enough to risk everything then she didn't want him. She wanted a man who loved her and would do anything for her, not someone too scared to do anything about it.
R.L. Mathewson
#80. If I don't feel like I'm doing the job well, and I don't know how to get there, or I'm too scared, or whatever, I'm not a happy guy and I'm not pleasant. I'm not pleasant to be around.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
#81. We live in a time of fear," Skulduggery said, "where we're too scared of upsetting the status quo to ask the questions we need to be asking.
Derek Landy
#82. I saw 'The Exorcist' at the cinema when I was quite young, maybe 14. When I went back home, my mum and dad weren't in, so I had to wait for them on the main road. I were too scared to enter the house.
Sean Bean
#83. And, like most people, you're too scared, stubborn or stupid to give yourself what you need until you're shaken awake by something.
Menna Van Praag
#84. Is it normal to live a lie because you're too scared to tell the truth?
Felice Stevens
#85. They love the fact you made it, but hate the fact you got it.
The stairway to heaven is packed ... I'm in the lobby.
Too scared to go to sleep, cause most times I often doubt my dreams.
Big K.R.I.T.
#86. You are a fucking delight, princess. It's like you know the dirty jokes in my head I'm too scared to make in front of you.
Melanie Harlow
#87. Too many people are missing their destiny a year at a time because they're too scared to think in decades!"
(p. 127)
Pete Greig
#88. To be honest, I think love is complete bullshit. I don't think anyone ever loves anyone. I think the best people ever get is horny; horny and scared, so when they find someone who makes them horny, and they get too scared of the world outside, they stay together and they call it love.
Neil Gaiman
#89. I want to help children develop strengths that allow them to feel they don't have to push things away mentally ... If we 'cotton-ball' kids, it produces adults who are too scared to think for themselves and are easily manipulated.
Morris Gleitzman
#90. A lot of people don't want to make their own decisions. They're too scared. It's much easier to be told what to do.
Marilyn Manson
#91. So, believe in that. Believe in my charmed life. Believe that I always get whatever I want. Because I want you in my life, Laura. For as long as you want to stay. When you're too scared to believe in anything else, you can believe in that. (Cade to Laura)
Lori Ryan
#92. I think I'd be too scared to direct my first movie and put myself in the center.
Joel Edgerton
#93. We're connected, as women. It's like a spiderweb. If one part of that web vibrates, if there's trouble, we all know it, but most of the time we're just too scared, or selfish, or insecure to help. But if we don't help each other, who will?
Sarah Addison Allen
#94. I was too scared to ask if I had reason to be scared.
John Green
#95. I was out of the war because men like this were too scared to talk about dick.
Paul Monette
#96. Maybe I'm too scared to fly, but I'm brave enough to save your life.
Nnedi Okorafor
#97. I was too scared to open my eyes. It was the logic of a child; if you don't open your eyes, the monster won't see you.
Kathleen Peacock
#98. Deep down Kelly, I think you want me here. I think you're too damn scared to admit you need me. And I think I'm the only one who will understand the truth.
LeeAnn Whitaker
#99. Sometimes I got scared of being too honest, because being in the public eye, I have always tried to hide my personal life. But I realized that isn't healthy.
Hilary Duff
#100. It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too.
Stan Dale
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