51 Fear of Love Quotes for Deep Reflection
Love can be beautiful, but it’s also one of our scariest emotions.
That’s why we’ve gathered all the best fear of love quotes for your next post.
And if you’re looking for raw, honest sayings to express the vulnerability and hesitation that comes with opening your heart, we also have you covered.
Now go ahead and browse through to find your favorite.
Our Favorite Fear of Love Quotes
“To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.” — Bertrand Russell
“We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
“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
“It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!” — May Sarton
“I’m so afraid of losing something I love, that I refuse to love anything.” — Jonathan Safran Foer
“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
“Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.” — St. Francis de Sales
“I’m not afraid to try again, I’m just afraid of getting hurt for the same reason.” — Anurag Prakash Ray
“I’m afraid to love, because I don’t want to get hurt.” — Grace Marcelo
“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
“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
“Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.” — Napoleon Hill
“We fear the thing we want the most.” — Robert Anthony
“Fear makes us feel our humanity.” — Benjamin Disraeli
“The mark of fear is not easily removed.” — Ernest Gaines
“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
“Resist your fear; fear will never lead to you a positive end. Go for your faith and what you believe.” — T. D. Jakes
“You should have a fear of some things. That doesn’t mean it incapacitates you from your ability to figure out a way to deal with it.” — Chris Hadfield
“Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.” — George Washington Carver
“Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.” — Aristotle
“Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.” — Bertrand Russell
“Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.” — Marian Anderson
“Fear is the proof of a degenerate mind.” — Virgil
“The things you fear are undefeatable, not by their nature, but by your approach.” — Jewel Kilcher
“You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.” — Dale Carnegie
“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
“There are two basic motivating forces. Fear and love.” — John Lennon
“A taste so profound and complex that it can’t even be compared to other tastes, only to emotions. Cheesy waffles, I was thinking, tastes like love without the fear of love’s dissolution.” — John Green
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Then he’d come back home and found out that war didn’t cause fear. Love did.” — Patricia Briggs
“Presents of love fear not to be ill taken of strangers.” — George Herbert
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself and possibly the bogey man.” — Pat Paulsen
“Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth.” — Marianne Williamson
“The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love.” — Marianne Williamson
“As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” — Nelson Mandela
“I’m afraid of love, because it involves things that are beyond our understanding, it sheds such a brilliant light, but the shadow it casts frightens me.” — Paulo Coelho
“But, commonly, men are as much afraid of love as of hate.” — Henry David Thoreau
“The fear to love reaches sometimes the depth of a panic, resembles sometimes the fear to die.” — Theodor Reik
“The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.” — Stendhal
“Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.” — Dorothy Day
“Fear has a smell, as love does.” — Margaret Atwood
“How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.” — Sigmund Freud
“The opposite of love is not hate. It is fear.” — Gary Zukav
“Some feelings are stronger than fear. Love, longing, desire.” — Luanne Rice
“Love expects no reward. Love knows no fear. Love Divine gives. Does not demand. Love thinks no evil. Imputes no motive. To Love is to share and serve.” — Sivananda
“No one loves the man whom he fears.” — Aristotle
“Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.” — Jampolsky
“Love endures everything, love is stronger than death, love fears nothing.” — Mary Faustina Kowalska
“Don’t move the way fear makes you move. Move the way love makes you move. Move the way joy makes you move.” — Rajneesh
“Fear loves the idea of danger.” — Joubert
“When you were in love you knew no fear or hatred.” — Christopher Pike
