“They were afraid of dying but even more afraid to show it.”

“That was courage, Keller thought. Not doing something without being afraid, but doing something even though you were afraid.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

“You're afraid of imagination and even more afraid of dreams. Afraid of the resposibility that begins in dreams. But you have to sleep and dreams are a part of sleep. When you're awake you can suppress imagination but you can't supress dreams.”

Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore

“The srongest love is the love which is not afraid to show the weakness”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

“I'm not afraid of new things. I'm just afraid of feeling alone even when there's somebody else there. I'm afraid of feeling bad. Maybe that's selfish, but it's the way I feel.”

David Foster Wallace (1962–2008) American fiction writer and essayist

“You are happy even if you are afraid to admit it.”

David Levithan The Realm of Possibility

“The great success of this system is that it makes the general public afraid of taking responsibility, afraid of taking a position or giving a definite answer, or even of making mistakes.”

Ai Weiwei (1957) Chinese concept artist

“Spite is anger which is afraid to show itself, it is an impotent fury conscious of its impotence.”

Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821–1881) Swiss philosopher and poet

“Show me a guy who is afraid of looking bad and I’ll show you a guy you can beat every time.”

John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor

“It occurred on the evening before Waterloo,
And troops were lined up on parade,
The Sergeant inspecting 'em he was a terror,
Of whom every man was afraid”

Stanley Holloway (1890–1982) English stage and film actor, comedian, singer, poet and monologist