“Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.”

“I was a little afraid of him; not the boy himself, but of what he seemed to be: the victim of the world.”

William Saroyan (1908–1981) American writer

“God is an American.
I'm afraid of Americans.
I'm afraid of the world.
I'm afraid I can't help it.
I'm afraid I can't”

David Bowie (1947–2016) British musician, actor, record producer and arranger

“What are you afraid of then?
Not Being able to see, I think not seeing because your obsessed by something that blots out the world.”

Eva Ibbotson book A Song for Summer

“(…) I am all and all is me. Being the world I am not afraid of the world. Being all, what am I to be afraid of? Water is not afraid of water, nor fire of fire. (…) It is attachment to a name and shape that breeds fear. I am not attached. I am nothing, and nothing is not afraid of no thing. On the contrary, everything is afraid of the Nothing, for when a thing touches Nothing, it becomes nothing. (…)”

Nisargadatta Maharaj (1897–1981) Indian guru

“We tell lies when we are afraid… afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.”

Tad Williams (1957) novelist

“An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose”

Langston Hughes (1902–1967) American writer and social activist

“I, a stranger and afraid
In a world I never made.”

A.E. Housman Last Poems

“I'm not afraid of computers taking over the world. They're just sitting there. I can hit them with a two by four.”

Thom Yorke (1968) English musician, philanthropist and singer-songwriter

“Maybe anything's right, he mumbled. Yes, if the world as men had made it was right, then anything else was right, any act a man took to satisfy himself, murder, theft, torture. He straightened with a start. What was happening to him? … He was going to do something, but what? Yes, he was afraid of himself, afraid of doing some nameless thing.”

Richard Wright (1908–1960) African-American writer