“I'm not afraid of the world. I'm afraid of a world without you.”

“I'm not afraid of Spassky. The world knows I'm the best. You don't need a match to prove it.”

Bobby Fischer (1943–2008) American chess prodigy, chess player, and chess writer

“We face many dangerous threats in this dangerous world, but I'm not afraid of them. I'm prepared for them.”

John McCain (1936–2018) politician from the United States

“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

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

Clive James (1939–2019) Australian author, critic, broadcaster, poet, translator and memoirist

“I'm a problem that'll never ever be solved I'm a monster, I'm a maven
I know this world is changing
Never gave in, never gave up
I'm the only thing I'm afraid of
No matter what, you'll never take that from me
My reign is as far as your eyes can see, it's amazing.”

Kanye West (1977) American rapper, singer and songwriter

“Oh, I'm not afraid of death! What have I got to live for after all? I suppose you believe it's very wrong to kill a person who has injured you-even if they've taken away everything you had in the world?”

Agatha Christie book Death on the Nile

“What's left is only bittersweet
For the rest of my life,
admitting the best is behind me Now I'm drunk and afraid
Wishing the world would go away
What's the point of singing songs
If they'll never even hear you?”

Sufjan Stevens (1975) American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist

“And I wait staring at the Northern Star
I'm afraid it won't lead you very far
He's so cold, he will win the world tonight
All the angels kneel into the frozen lights
Feel their hearts they're cold and white”

Courtney Love (1964) American punk singer-songwriter, musician, actress, and artist

“(…) 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