“I'm afraid to love you. I'm afraid that you'll leave and that I'll go back to being alone again. Only it will be a hundred times worse because I'll know what I'm missing. I can't...I want to be able to love you more than I fear losing you, and I don't know how. Teach me...Please teach me. Don't let…”— Mia Sheridan, amazon.com
“...maybe that’s worse. Not letting ourselves be loved because we’re too afraid of giving ourselves to someone we might lose.”— Thomas Rickman, Morrie Schwartz, Jack Lemmon, amazon.com
“I always fear letting someone that close to me. Close enough that they become a routine.”— Kirsten Corley, thoughtcatalog.com
“Somehow we’ve been convinced that we are protecting ourselves, that life is better and easier by holding tightly to our love. Sometimes it is easier. But it is never better. And sometimes it takes making a choice every day, every moment, but it’s worth it. Choosing the thrill, the vulnerability, the…”— Alison Motroni, thoughtcatalog.com
“We work so hard to keep our hearts from getting hurt. We stay in our hometowns so as to guarantee we never love a new place. We become attached to routines that leave no room for our hearts to get involved. And we keep our hearts hidden from people we want to love. By playing hard-to-get-me games wi…”— Alison Motroni, thoughtcatalog.com
“Don’t be frightened to give your love away. Don’t think that to give love away means to use it up. Don’t buy the lie that if you are too generous with your love it will run out. It won’t. You don’t have to ration it or hold it tight to your chest. Loosen your grip. Every time you choose to give love…”— Alison Motroni, thoughtcatalog.com
“I used to think that only the weak wear their hearts on their sleeves and fall in love. But now I know, it’s not the ones that are in love who are weak but instead the ones who are too afraid to. So, don’t be afraid of love. Fall in love, fall hard and when you’re lying on the ground, bruised and br…”— Addriey Jones, thoughtcatalog.com
“I know you, I know your type. You tip-toe around the people who show potential interest. You keep a fair distance from the people who brush their fingers against yours and the ones who look at you in the way everyone wants to be looked at. You do all you can to push away the people that could love y…”— Addriey Jones, thoughtcatalog.com
“Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.”— Dale Carnegie, wiseoldsayings.com
“If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater.”— Unknown, wiseoldsayings.com
“Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other but does not create true intimacy.”— Henri Nouwen, wiseoldsayings.com
“Living with fear stops us taking risks, and if you don't go out on the branch, you're never going to get the best fruit.”— Sarah Parish, wiseoldsayings.com
“I've never fallen in love right off the bat. I get scared to say I love you too soon because it means so much. It means you're not seeing an end to things.”— Leighton Meester, amazon.com
“I'm not afraid to try again, I'm just afraid of getting hurt for the same reason.”— Anurag Prakash Ray, wiseoldsayings.com
“We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.”— Eleanor Roosevelt, wiseoldsayings.com
“Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.”— Merle Shain, wiseoldsayings.com
“I'm so afraid of losing something I love, that I refuse to love anything.”— Jonathan Safran Foer, wiseoldsayings.com
“Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing.”— Lance Armstrong, wiseoldsayings.com