Fear Of Love Quotes

“Usually adult males who are unable to make emotional connections with the women they chose to be intimate with are frozen in time, unable to allow themselves to love for fear that the loved one will abandon them.”
― bell hooks, The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love

“Don't let toxic people infect you with the fear of giving and receiving one of the most powerful forces in this world... LOVE!”
― Yvonne Pierre, The Day My Soul Cried: A Memoir

“The ice inside me melts. Suddenly, I'm burning up and terrified, scared I'll be too weak to resist.

Scratch that - I'm petrified I've already given in.”
― Amanda Bouchet, A Promise of Fire

“If the idea of loving those whom you have been taught to recognize as your enemies is too overwhelming, consider more deeply the observation that we are all much more alike than we are unalike.”
― Aberjhani, Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays

“When you are in love you know no fear or hatred. when you are fearful there is no possibility of love or hatred. And when there is hate, there is only hate.”
― Christopher Pike, Thirst No. 1: The Last Vampire, Black Blood, and Red Dice

“All the things that people do in order to show that they don't need anybody... meanwhile, all they really want to do is say, "Please keep me." We all want to be kept. The problem is we are too afraid to let anyone know about it. What are these fragile things in our hearts that have so much fear of being broken?”
― C. JoyBell C.

“We set our own limits on love. Some of us bind our hearts like Chinese women bind their feet. The binding is painful at first but eventually you get used to it and the pain goes away. The saddest part of all is that by binding yourself to the choices you make, you forget that there was ever another way to live.”
― Kate McGahan

“This is the closest I have ever gotten to voicing the truth: that I'm afraid. That for a long time now, between maybe the third and fourth move, the fourth or fifth friend I lost along the way, I've suspected that there's something fundamentally unlovable about me. Something that makes it easy for people to forget me the second I leave, to drift out of touch no matter how hard I try to keep them in my life.

I've said before that my default setting is loneliness, but maybe I was wrong.

Maybe it's really fear.”
― Ann Liang, This Time It's Real

“And it all comes out so lame. I love your mouth. I love your hair. I love your ears. I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.”
― Erica Jong, Fear of Flying

“To
Fading self

The fear that life will shatter again
And the pieces you glue; will not be the same.”
― Yarro Rai, Abyss :

“How can you be afraid to feel? Isn’t fear a feeling? If you’re feeling fear, you’ve felt one of the most negative emotions there is to feel. Everything else should be a piece of cake.”
― Bashar

“If the people who said they loved you abused or neglected you, it can feel terrifying to love again…Commitment or love with a family feeling can be scarier still. The child in you still equates commitment with being locked into a situation where there’s no escape. So as you get closer, you may become paralyzed by all your old defenses & memories.”
― Ellen Bass, The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse

“She looked at him for an age, and he read nothing short of love on her face. It warmed him to the core he'd thought dead, and scared the crap out of him.”
― Dianna Hardy, Rise Of The Wolf

“She pictures love as a pond to be stepped into, swum around in, and then climbed out of and toweled off before getting too chilly.”
― Jessica Shattuck, The Hazards of Good Breeding

“When we put our running shoes on and fight tooth and nail to hide from someone, it’s because that’s the person who really matters. That’s the one person you fear will see what’s inside you and cringe. You’d rather live with the not-knowing than to give it a chance.”
― Rebel Farris, Pivot Line

“You push people away, Marley. You don't realise it, but you do. You close yourself off to anyone and anything that doesn't fit in your perfect little hamster ball of life. But you can't experience love only on your own terms. It doesn't work that way.”
― Kate Lattey, Dream On

“Love is scary! Taking a vow to love someone through sickness and health, for richer for poorer, forsaking all others, until death do us part, is the most terrifying experience a person can have. Why pretend any differently?”
― Elin Hilderbrand, Beautiful Day

“Don't be afraid to be the person who loves the most”
― Seth Adam Smith

“Do not be afraid of love or the course it will take. There is no certainty in life. Choose love first and choose love last and it will give you more than you ever give it.”
― Donna Goddard, Waldmeer

“Staring into his eyes on a sunny day,
It's like swimming in pools of dark honey.
And I can't help but think,
It's so incredibly easy to love him,
I could drown if I'm not careful.”
― Charity Whan, In Search of The Music Man

“My greatest fear is that she'll look at me sad and say, "If you fought one day more, I'd have said yes.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, The Goodbye Song

“Love is terribly sincere and great. I suppose that is why so many people are afraid of it, and so few can live up to it. — Bliss Carman to Gladys Baldwin, 1915 (age 52)”
― Jeanette Lynes

“Although we want to be close with others, we maintain a distance so we won’t be hurt.”
― Yong Kang Chan, Reconnect to Love: A Journey From Loneliness to Deep Connection

“Justin stared at the empty doorway, then dropped his head and cursed viciously. He had to leave. His instincts told him that a silken net was closing around him. If he didn’t escape soon, he would be entangled forever in its soft, tenacious bonds. But he couldn’t leave—he didn’t yet have the strength or the resources to evade Dominic Legare. This fragile masquerade was his only protection. The only question was, which threat was greater? The one posed by Dominic Legare…or the one posed by his own brother’s wife.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Only With Your Love

“I think, sometimes, we are simply afraid to need. We’re afraid that if we ask too much, if we bare our tenderest wounds and show our ugliest sides, we’ll find out that we aren’t lovable. That we can only keep the ones we love around us as long as we cost them nothing, create no burden.

That, at least I think, is the plight of the people pleaser. And though I set out to write one kind of story (and hopefully, on some level, succeeded!), that’s what Happy Place has really come to be about: the ways in which we fail ourselves, cut ourselves off from true, deep, fulfilling joy by trying to bend ourselves into acceptable shapes.”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place