Audre Lorde Quotes

While there's life, there's fear.

I'll tell them that on bad mornings, it feels impossible to take pleasure in anything because I'm afraid it could be taken away.

You're always afraid of losing what you have. Regardless of success or anything, you're always afraid.

She knows there's more to life, and she's scared of ending up alone

The night before the Nobel announcement every year, I've gone to bed feeling quite anxious. I was optimistic, and also I knew it might never happen.

I think you're not a human being unless you have doubts and fears.

I am always worried when someone says, 'This is perfect.'

I'm scared of everything. I think it's only sensible to be that way.

I'm scared of the unknown future.

There is always a point when one senses one's lack of skill, the doubt.

At the heart of any terror is the fear of losing what we find meaningful.

I'm always afraid someone's going to tap me on the shoulder one day and say, 'Back to North London.'

With such riches as I have in life, you're always nervous. Being Irish, you're waiting for something to knock it sideways.

It seems like the more you grow up the more you fear things.

I do have a sense of displacement as constant instability - the uninterrupted existence of everything that I love and care about is not guaranteed at all. I wait for catastrophes.

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.

There's so much to be afraid of.

I fear the future.

When there is nothing to fear is the time to begin fearing everything.

I'm scared of a lot of things.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

What annoys me about it is that your fate is always in somebody else's hands. It's always up to somebody else to decide whether or not they want you in their show and so the majority of actors have to play out a waiting game. The constant fear is that it could all end tomorrow.

Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.