I Quotes
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“I’m afraid I don’t really have a clear understanding of the psychology of the powerful- particularly the absolutely invincible variety, which I’ve never met or known to exist. I’m a story writer with such feeble imaginative powers that unless I myself have experienced something, I can’t write one line- I can’t write a word- about it.”
Source: Otogizōshi: The Fairy Tale Book of Dazai Osamu
“i’m afraid i’ll lose you if i share all that’s real.
i’m afraid i’ll lose myself if i don’t.”
“I'm afraid I'll lose you someday. I have to have my heart ready for that.”
Source: The Calamities of Toterrum
“I'm afraid I'm going to look at your perfect face, and you're finally going to see me as the monster I am.”
Source: The Dark Light of Day
“I'm afraid I'm not very well prepared for your birthday, have slept even worse than usual, head hot, eyes burned out, torturing temples, coughing as well. I'm afraid I couldn't recite a lengthy congratulation without coughing. Fortunately no congratulation is required, just thanks that you exist in this world, where at first sight, I wouldn't have suspected (you see, I don' have much knowledge of the world, either - except that, in contrast to you, I admit it) that you could be found. And I thank you for it (is this gratitude?) with a kiss precisely like the one on the railway station, although you didn't like it (today I'm rather obstinate).”
Source: Letters to Milena
“I’m afraid I might have to kill you.”
He stiffens for a moment, and then a soft, wheezing sound escapes him, almost like a kittenish sneeze. It takes me a moment to realize that this is the praxiian version of laughing. He’s laughing at me.
Well now I really want to kill him. “What’s so fucking funny?”
“You can’t kill me. You can’t even look me in the eye right now. You keep staring at my cock.”
“That’s because it’s staring right back!”
Source: When She Purrs
“I'm afraid I now understand what it means to live in a brew of hate and malice. Ravenous jealousy Suppressing the smile that lingers around saddened lips Relieved at the fact I'm the one bringing comforting arms”
Source: Emotions Are Cliché : A classical poetry and prose collection
“I'm afraid I've already found my Ever After, Hort," said Sophie.
"What? With who?" Hort asked, aghast.
"On my own," she said, her voice sure and clear. "I'm happy on my own."
And for the first time, she knew it was true.”
Source: The Last Ever After
“I'm afraid I've given you the wrong impression, Sadie,' he said. 'I rather like to be consumed.”
Source: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
“I'm afraid it's not nonsense," Genghis said, shaking his turbaned head and continuing his story. "As I was saying before the little girl interrupted me, the baby didn't dash off with the other orphans. She just sat there like a sack of flour. So I walked over to her and gave her a kick to get her moving."
"Excellent idea!" Nero said. "What a wonderful story this is! And then what happened?"
"Well, at first it seemed like I'd kicked a big hole in the baby," Genghis said, his eyes shining, "which seemed lucky, because Sunny was a terrible athlete and it would have been a blessing to put her out of her misery."
Nero clapped his hands. "I know just what you mean, Genghis," he said. "She's a terrible secretary as well."
"But she did all that stapling," Mr. Remora protested.
"Shut up and let the coach finish his story," Nero said.
"But when I looked down," Genghis continued, "I saw that I hadn't kicked a hole in a baby. I'd kicked a hole in a bag of flour! I'd been tricked!"
"That's terrible!" Nero cried.”
Source: The Austere Academy
“I'm afraid it sounds very rude, but I hope from the bottom of my heart that I shall never set eyes on any of you again.”
Source: Of Human Bondage
“I'm afraid it will never be perfect again. I am indelibly stained. Forever redefined, but blurred around the edges.”
Source: Perfect
“I'm afraid men are not always quite as clever as they think they are. You will learn that when you get a bit older, my girl.”
Source: Matilda
“I’m afraid most Bibles remain unopened and unread. Don’t let this be true of yours!”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“I’m afraid my crushes are dangerous for me. Maybe my heart will lead me the wrong way, always. Back into something that’ll always end bad. Into the wrong waters, where I’ll drown.”
Source: My Heart Underwater
“I'm afraid my jealousy is a beast I find difficult to tame," he said with a sigh.”
Source: Rise
“I'm afraid, Nora' — he paused for a moment, about the time it takes to lift an axe into the air — 'I'm going to have to let you go.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“I'm afraid of everything I don't know.”
Source: The Girl Who Would Be King
“I'm afraid of failing. I'm afraid of letting this opportunity pass us by. And I'm afraid of what happens if nothing in this world ever changes.”
Source: Red Queen
“I'm afraid of life! There are times I--I am very frightened. Any happiness seems trivial. And yet, I wonder if it isn't all a misunderstanding-- this grasping after happiness, this fear of pain... If instead of fearing it and running from it, one could... get through it, go beyond it. There is something beyond it. It's the self that suffers, and there's a place where the self--ceases. I don't know how to say it. But I believe that the reality--the truth that I recognize in suffering as I don't in comfort and happiness--that the reality of pain is not pain. If you can get through it. If you can endure it all the way.”
Source: The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
“I'm afraid of losing myself. Not to you specifically, but to the idea of being part of a couple. I've watched other women disappear into relationships, become smaller versions of themselves in service of harmony or compatibility.”
Source: THE CAGE OF WHISPERS : THE CAGE THAT HOLDS US AND THE WINGS WE DARE TO GROW
“I’m afraid of not unlearning the bad things my
parents taught me.”
Source: Aphrodite Made Me Do It
“I'm afraid of old people. They are what I will one day be.”
Source: Ordesa
“I'm afraid of settling into this quiet and comfortable life, and afraid to have lived without being aware of it.”
Source: The Years
“I'm afraid of; that one day, I will only see more and more vanities in the world.”
Source: The seven deadly sins
“I'm afraid of waking up
to a world where you see
and I am not what you saw”
Source: Rain and Embers
“I'm afraid.'
'Of what?'
'Of the heartbreak when I fail,' she said simply. 'Of rejection. Of wanting too much. Of discovering again and again that I'm unlovable. I'm afraid I'll never leave a mark on anybody.”
Source: The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
“I'm afraid our generation is broken but masking the pain with sad smiles.”
“I'm afraid our sun is nothing like whatever defined.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“I'm afraid!" She cried breaking free from his embrace.
But this time, he refused to let her go. "No, no, no, you're not afraid of me! What am I...a foot and half taller than you and out weigh you by 130 pounds, how could you possibly be afraid of me!" He laughed.”
Source: Victor's Blessing
“I’m afraid that I will break, like a dam without floodgates, or an earthquake beneath a fault line.”
Source: Cape of Storms
“I'm afraid that I won't do the right thing
in the face of disaster.
Or, I'm afraid I will be stupidly brave.”
Source: Bright Dead Things
“I'm afraid that if I stop writing I'll stop thinking and start feeling.”
Source: The Princess Diarist
“I'm afraid that if we move on to such topics, I won't be able to let you go safe and sound.”
Source: Fateful Italian Passion
“I'm afraid that in nine cases out of ten Nature pulls one way and human nature another.”
Source: Howards End
“I'm afraid that Jesus coming as a thief, he might be hanged this time, instead of the crucifixion. Theft is prohibited. Even God doesn't like thieves.”
“I'm afraid that you're leaving me, so i'm leaving you first.”
Source: The Infinite Moment of Us
“I'm afraid the engine is quite dead," Mr. Poe called out.
"And before long," Stephano muttered to the children, "you will be too."
"I'm sorry," Mr. Poe said. "I couldn't hear you.”
Source: The Reptile Room
“I’m afraid the sleigh is wrecked,” said Santa, “and we do not have a spare!”
“We must cancel Christmas,” he said; but his wife replied, “We must not dare!”
Source: Santa's Magic Cookie Train
“I’m afraid they’re not coming.” Abby said fearfully. “Our parents, our teachers – everyone! They’ve disappeared. That’s it. Lights out, Shelly. We’re on our own.”
Source: Lights Out: Book 2
“I'm afraid they would droop. See, they're drooping already. Bluebells are like that.”
Source: Ross Poldark
“I’m afraid this brassiere is booby trapped.”
Source: Query
“I'm afraid to get involved with the outside world. I'm afraid to meet new people and feel new feelings.”
Source: Norwegian Wood
“I'm afraid to have a boyfriend. I don't know how to do that and not lose who I want to be. And I'm afraid of what it means to be close to a guy, a guy I might really like."
There it was: the truth.”
Source: XVI
“I'm afraid to hope but I can't help it, and the idea of hoping in this most hopeless of all places makes me want to cry.”
Source: Go Ask Alice
“I'm afraid we're stuck with Kant and his"crooked timber of humanity, from which no straight thing was ever made." If we're going to build another world, it will be from this crooked timber and no other, so we'd better start learning the necessary carpentry.”
Source: Another World Is Possible, If...
“I'm afraid we shall waste an awful lot of time."
"Don't worry," answered Snufkin, "we shall have wonderful dreams, and when we wake up it'll be spring.”
Source: Finn Family Moomintroll
“I'm afraid,' wrote someone on a school report, 'that Claudia's intelligence may well prove a stumbling-block unless she learns how to control her enthusiasms and channel her talents.' Of course, intelligence is always a disadvantage. Parental hearts should sink at the first signs of it.”
Source: Moon Tiger
“I'm afraid you are entirely to blame for my lack of focus... I find it difficult to concentrate on anything with you near.”
Source: Kissed by Scandal
“I’m afraid you cannot leave,' said Zarniwoop, 'you are entwined in the Improbability Field. You cannot escape.' He smiled the smile that Zaphod had wanted to hit and this time Zaphod hit it.”