Afraid To Love Quotes

• Maybe there is something you're afraid to say, or someone you're afraid to love, or somewhere you're afraid to go. It's gonna hurt. It's gonna hurt because it matters.

  John Green

  Life, Hurt, I Hate You

  "Will Grayson, Will Grayson". Book by John Green and David Levithan, April 6, 2010.

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• To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

  Bertrand Russell

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 19

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• I'm so afraid to love you, but more afraid to loose.
  Clinging to a past that doesn't let me choose.
  Once there was a darkness, deep and endless night.
  You gave me everything you had, oh you gave me light.
  And I will remember you.
  Will you remember me?
  Don't let your life pass you by.
  Weep not for the memories.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Song, Memories, Love You

  "Song: I Will Remember You". 1993.

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• It often occurs that pride and selfishness are muddled with strength and independence. They are neither equal nor similar; in fact, they are polar opposites. A coward may be so cowardly that he masks his weakness with some false personification of power. He is afraid to love and to be loved because love tends to strip bare all emotional barricades. Without love, strength and independence are prone to losing every bit of their worth; they become nothing more than a fearful, intimidated, empty tent lost somewhere in the desert of self.

  Criss Jami

  Fear, Pride, Emotional

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.130, Criss Jami

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• The opposite of love is fear, not hate.

  Yoko Ono

  Hate, Love Is, Opposites

  Twitter post from Aug 27, 2015

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• If someone broke your heart it doesn't mean you should build a wall around it and quit loving. Redirect your love.

  Rick Warren

  Wall, Heart, Mean

  Twitter post from Dec 19, 2013

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• Love is never afraid of fear. Fear is always afraid of love

  Sri Chinmoy

  Love Is

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• I'm scared to fall in love, afraid to love so fast, cuz everytime I fall in love, it seems to never last.

  Janet Jackson

  Falling In Love, Cuz, Lasts

  Song: Every Time, Album: The Velvet Rope

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• People have become afraid of love because in love also, death penetrates. If two lovers are sitting side by side in deep love and intimacy, not even talking.... Talking is an escape, an escape from love. When two lovers are talking that simply shows they are avoiding the intimacy. Words in-between give distance - with no words distance disappears, death appears. In silence there is death just lurking around - a beautiful phenomenon. But people are so afraid that they go on talking whether it is needed or not. They go on talking about anything, everything - but they cannot keep silent.

  Rajneesh

  Love, Beautiful, Distance

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• One is always a little afraid of love, but above all, one is afraid of pain or causing pain.

  Bertrand Russell

  Pain, Causing Pain, Littles

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• 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

  Fear, Light, Understanding

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• We are all called to be friends with Jesus. Don’t be afraid to love the Lord.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Lord

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• Everybody's afraid of love, because love is what hurts the most.

  Sharon Shinn

  Hurt, Love Is

  Sharon Shinn (1997). “Archangel”, p.298, Penguin

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• In this world there are two great sources of strength. One rests with those who are not afraid to kill. The other rests with those who are not afraid to love.

  Jack Kornfield

  Two, World, Source

  Jack Kornfield (2010). “The Art Of Forgiveness, Loving Kindness And Peace”, p.81, Random House

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• Why am I afraid to dance, I who love music and rhythm and grace and song and laughter? Why am I afraid to live, I who love life and the beauty of flesh and the living colors of the earth and sky and sea? Why am I afraid to love, I who love love?

  Eugene O'Neill

  Song, Laughter, Love Life

  Travis Bogard, Eugene O'Neill (1988). “Contour in Time: The Plays of Eugene O'Neill”, p.271, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• But, commonly, men are as much afraid of love as of hate.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fear, Hate, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1140, Delphi Classics

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• People are more afraid to love than they are to kill.

  Eve Ensler

  People

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• I ain't afraid to love a man.

  Annie Oakley

  Men

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• We are afraid of love because Love is a small death. Love requires that we should surrender, and we don't want to surrender at all. We would like the OTHER to surrender, we would like the other to be a slave. But the same is the desire from the other side: man wants the woman to be a slave; and of course the woman also wants the same, the SAME desire is there. Their methods of enslaving each other may be different, but the desire is the same.

  Rajneesh

  Love Is, Men, Desire

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• Do not be afraid to love. Remember dear old Don Quixote, viewing the world with love. He saw many beautiful things no one else saw. Try being dear Don Quixote for a day. You'll see that love improves your vision and allows you to see more than your eye has ever seen before. But be forewarned: Those who look on the world with love will need a handkerchief, not to use as a blindfold, but to blow their nose and dry their tears.

  Bernie Siegel

  Love, Beautiful, Eye

  Bernie Siegel (2013). “Prescriptions For Living: Inspirational Lessons for a Joyful, Loving Life”, p.58, Random House

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• There isn’t anything I have to be afraid of, love is the answer.

  Gene Colan

  Love Is, Answers

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• I have been continuously surprised by people who come to me and say they are afraid of love. What is the fear of love? It is because when you really love somebody your ego starts slipping and melting. You cannot love with the ego; the ego becomes a barrier. and when you want to drop the barrier the ego says, 'This is going to be a death. Beware!'

  Rajneesh

  Love, People, Ego

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• Never be afraid to love, not even when there's a chance you're not being loved in return.

  Tom Robbins

  Return, Chance, Being Loved

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• Because I had already resolved that if you're afraid of love, your heart will break anyway, only in not half so nice a fashion as it does when you let somebody love you.

  Ann Rinaldi

  Fashion, Nice, Love You

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• I ain't afraid to love a man. I ain't afraid to shoot him either.

  Annie Oakley

  Love, Funny, Men

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