“You're afraid to be alive, you're afraid to live.”— David O. Russell, Matthew Quick, Tiffany, Jennifer Lawrence, amazon.com
“You're afraid to tell your partner about a normal happening - your car needs brakes, your boss made you work overtime - because you're not sure how he will react.”— Adriana Velez, thestir.cafemom.com
“There was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.”— Veronica Roth, amazon.com
“When people were afraid, they did not always do what they knew to be right. They turned away. They closed their eyes. They said, Tomorrow. Tomorrow, perhaps, I'll do something about it. And they said that until they died.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.com
“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 withou…”— Katherine Paterson, amazon.com
“Sometimes you can't speak, not because others won't let you, but because you are afraid of what you'll say.”— Ally Condie, amazon.com
“It's a funny thing... but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really, what guides them is what they're afraid of. What they don't want.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.com
“I am the kind of alone that comes when the realization comes that everyone else will step forward and you will not step at all. That they will march happily into the rest of their lives and I am unable to imagine the rest of this breath. The kind of alone that comes as nothing even begins to make se…”— Tyler Knott Gregson, thoughtcatalog.com
“There’s no shame in being afraid. Hell, we’re all afraid. What you gotta do is figure out what you’re afraid of because when you put a face on it, you can beat it. Better yet, you can use it.”— Whitey Durham, amazon.com
“Depression is the flaw in love... There's no such thing as love without the anticipation of loss, and that specter of despair can be the engine of intimacy.”— Andrew Solomon, ted.com
“It [anxiety] was the feeling all the time like that feeling you have if you're walking and you slip or trip and the ground is rushing up at you, but instead of lasting half a second, the way that does, it lasted for six months.”— Andrew Solomon, ted.com
“Because if you let me go too gently, I am afraid I will follow behind like a lovesick dog. If you let me go too gently, my misguided hands will try to build us a home, will promise you we can make it work.If you let me go too gently, I will ask that you stay.”— Ari Eastman, thoughtcatalog.com