Being Afraid Quotes (page 3)

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• trust
• letting go
• people

I got this idea about being afraid to let go of something and being afraid of sinking into a state of almost anesthesia, where you have to trust other people. Just the paranoia of it all. And it seemed to suit the frenetic track. So I just wrote it out and, you know, said it. Nick Rhodes

• success
• failure
• petty

Don't be afraid of failure; be afraid of petty success. Maude Adams

• humanity
• wellness
• afraid

One should not be afraid of humans. Well, I am not afraid of humans, but of what is inhuman in them. Ivo Andric

• fear
• children
• power

Why are men afraid of women?"If your strength is only the other's weakness, you live in fear," Ged said."Yes; but women seem to fear their own strength, to be afraid of themselves."Are they ever taught to trust themselves?" Ged asked, and as he spoke Therru came in on her work again. His eyes and Tenar's met."No," she said. "Trust is not what we're taught." She watched the child stack the wood in the box. "If power were trust," she said. "I like that word. If it weren't all these arrangements... Ursula K. Le Guin

• imagination
• life
• fear

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

• evening
• people
• book

...a book is a delicate friend, a white bird, an exquisite being, afraid of water.Darling things! Afraid of water, of fire, They shiver in the wind. Clumsy, crude human fingers leave bruises on them that'll never fade! Never!Some people touch books without washing their hands!Some underline things in ink!Some even tear pages out! Tatyana Tolstaya

• dark
• people
• shadow

You musn’t be afraid of the dark.’ ‘I’m not,’ said Shadow. ‘I’m afraid of the people in the dark. Neil Gaiman

• charming
• him
• music

Dorian Gray frowned and turned his head away. He could not help liking the tall, graceful young man who was standing by him. His romantic, olive-coloured face and worn expression interested him. There was something in his low languid voice that was absolutely fascinating. His cool, white, flowerlike hands, even, had a curious charm. They moved, as he spoke, like music, and seemed to have a language of their own. But he felt afraid of him, and ashamed of being afraid. Oscar Wilde

• face
• finds
• anymore

Find what you are afraid of, face it, and then you won't be afraid of it anymore. Marilyn Manson

• people
• sometimes
• moving

I think sometimes that people think brave means not being afraid, which of course it doesn't mean that at all. It means that you're afraid, but you move past that and do it anyway, do what you think is right. Craig Ferguson

• time
• likely
• every day

I don't like to be afraid. I'm afraid every day, all the time. Melissa Auf der Maur

• old
• helpful
• dad

My dad said, 'The thing that I was told that was really helpful was that I mustn't be afraid of the things I was afraid of when I was five years old'. The shock of his childhood had put him in this defensive crouch against the world, and he needed to know that he had a nice wife and kids and it wasn't the same any more. Tom Hooper

• life
• thinking
• recipe

My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions. Eartha Kitt

• enough
• never
• knowing

Whenever we're afraid, it's because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid. Earl Nightingale

• fear
• them
• beings

I'm not afraid and these 15 days convinced me there is nothing to fear. Let them be afraid instead. Alexei Navalny