Being Afraid Quotes - Page 5

• I felt better about myself that I did it [calling Max Askeli Commander Askeli], rather than have - rather than thinking it and not writing it for being afraid of what might happen to me.

  Nat Hentoff

  Writing, Thinking, Max

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• Fear's useless. Either something bad happens or it doesn't: If it doesn't, you've wasted time being afraid, and if it does, you've wasted time that you could have spent sharpening your weapons.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Fear, Doe, Useless

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2010). “The Demon's Lexicon”, p.137, Simon and Schuster

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• Everyone can of course take their own meaning, that's the beauty of music and lyrics, but to me it seems like everything is about being attached to the past and being afraid of moving forward, afraid of that big dive or step and losing what was.

  St. Lucia

  Moving, Past, Steps

  Source: www.planetnotion.com

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• How do you convince someone to change, to stop being afraid of himself? How do you convince yourself not to be so scared all the time?

  Charles Yu

  Scared, Convince

  Charles Yu (2010). “How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (Enhanced Edition): A Novel”, p.218, Knopf

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• It's the same thing,' I told her. 'What is?' 'Being afraid and being alive.' 'No,' she said slowly, and now it was as if she was speaking a language she knew at first I wouldn't understand, the very words, not to mention the concept, being foreign to me. 'Macy, no. It's not.

  Sarah Dessen

  Alive, Firsts, Language

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “The Truth About Forever”, p.125, Penguin UK

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• It's different being afraid when there's the hope it will amount to something.

  Justin Cronin

  Different, Amount

  Justin Cronin (2010). “The Passage”, p.517, Hachette UK

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• We can express ideas without being afraid of being killed or imprisoned.

  Erich Fromm

  Ideas

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• Being afraid you'll look like a coward is the worst reason for doing anything.

  John Irving

  Coward, Looks, Appearance

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• The minute we look, we cease being afraid.

  Michael Crichton

  Looks, Minutes, Cease

  Michael Crichton (2012). “Travels”, p.219, Vintage

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• I think maybe the reason I have spent most of my life being afraid is that I have been trying to prepare myself to train my body for real fear when it comes. But I am not prepared.

  John Green

  Real, Thinking, Trying

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.141, A&C Black

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• Philosophizing is simply one way of being afraid, a cowardly pretense that doesn't get you anywhere.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Way, Cowardly, Pretense

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• People don't resent you for being brave. They resent themselves for being afraid.

  Darren Hardy

  Resent You, People, Brave

  Darren Hardy (2015). “The Entrepreneur Roller Coaster: Why Now Is the Time to #Join the Ride”, p.55, Greenleaf Book Group

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• I am more than happy to invite my five favorite fictional characters. Let's see. First on my list is Sam Gamgee from The Lord of The Rings. Sam is a beautiful character; in him, we find the profound heroism of an ordinary person. He epitomizes the saying that courage isn't not being afraid, courage is going anyway. I just love that.

  Megan Chance

  Beautiful, Character, Profound

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• There are many reasons why the Republican establishment hates Donald Trump, and some of them are legitimate. I mean, a lot of people have sensible reasons for be being afraid of Trump - Republicans, conservatives.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Hate, Mean, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• It wasn't so much that he minded telling Leslie that he was afraid to go; it was that he minded being afraid. It was as though he had been made with a great piece missing - one of May Belle's puzzles with this huge gap where somebody's eye should have been. Lord, it would be better to be born without an arm than to go through life with no guts.

  Katherine Paterson

  Eye, Should Have, Missing

  Katherine Paterson (1995). “Bridge to Terabithia”, Hippo Bks

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• I am not allowed to be afraid. My mother made me like that. As a child, if I was afraid of the dark, she would lock me in the closet. Things like this. And she would talk about the time she spent in the concentration camp, but not about being afraid, only about the good side of it.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Mother, Children, Dark

  "It's a wrap". Interview with Polly Vernon, www.theguardian.com. April 9, 2006.

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• Letting go of things and not being afraid of being ridiculous or over the top - I think that's the main thing for me to work on.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Letting Go, Thinking, Ridiculous

  "Beauty and style secrets from our favourite French icons". www.stylist.co.uk.

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• I'm not a great deductive thinker, but I will admit to having competence in a very wide range of things - not being afraid to try to write about baseball, choral music and dinosaurs in the same week and see connections among them.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Baseball, Writing, Trying

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• The only thing Martha and I have in common is that we both used to model. Martha Stewart is extremely talented. Her designs are picture perfect. Our philosophy is life is messy, and rather than being afraid of those messes we design products that work the way we live.

  Kathy Ireland

  Philosophy, Perfect, Design

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

  Eartha Kitt

  Acceptance, Thinking, Recipes

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• As Val jumped down onto the litter-strewn concrete after them, she thought how insane it was to follow two people she didn't know into the bowels of the subway, but instead of being afraid, she felt glad. She would make all her own decisions now, even if they were ruinous ones. It was the same pleasurable feeling as tearing a piece of paper into tiny, tiny pieces.

  Holly Black

  Two, People, Decision

  Holly Black (2012). “Valiant”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• I gave myself permission to feel and experience all of my emotions. In order to do that, I had to stop being afraid to feel. In order to do that, I taught myself to believe that no matter what I felt or what happened when I felt it, I would be okay.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Believe, Order, Would Be

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• Yes, my mind was wandering. I wished I were there with someone who could bring peace to my heart someone with whom I could spend a little time without being afraid that i would lose him the next day. With that reassurance, the time would pass more slowly. We could be silent for a while because we'd know we had the rest of our lives together for conversation. I wouldn't have to worry about serious matters, about difficult decisions and hard words.

  Paulo Coelho

  Heart, Next Day, Worry

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• Before I knew you, I thought brave was not being afraid. You've taught me that bravery is being terrified and doing it anyway.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Courage, Bravery, Taught

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 16-19”, p.120, Penguin

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• My grandfather used to say: Life is astoundingly short. To me, looking back over it, life seems so foreshortened that I scarcely understand, for instance, how a young man can decide to ride over to the next village without being afraid that -not to mention accidents- even the span of a normal happy life may fall far short of the time needed for such a journey.

  Franz Kafka

  Fall, Happy Life, Journey

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