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The phrase "afraid of life" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who has a fear or anxiety about living or facing life's challenges.
Example: "After experiencing several setbacks, she found herself increasingly afraid of life and hesitant to take risks."
Alternatives: "fearful of existence" or "anxious about living".
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NOT AFRAID OF LIFE, by Bristol Palin.
Patrick is awkward, slow-witted, afraid of life.
"He's just nervous and afraid of life," he says, sounding an apprehensive note.
She is afraid to lose her boyfriend, and maybe afraid of life in general.
These are people who are afraid of America, afraid of life itself..
She was meek & afraid of life, but now she wanted to live & to see for herself.
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The title of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is taken from graffiti Albee saw one night, scrawled on the mirror behind a New York bar called the College of Complexes; he has said it means "who's afraid of the big bad wolf, which means who's afraid of living life without delusions?", and the play is about stripping away illusion.
It also means being afraid of living your life without HIM at the CENTER.
I've spent so much of my life afraid of living; I want to spend the rest of my time on earth living fully.
What is it that she is so afraid of in life?
Only years after writing this song did I realize that it holds the epiphany that finally made me stop drinking--I had become more afraid of my life than I was of my death".
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