Fear Of Love Quotes - Page 4

• That's why I want you there, he said. You're unpredictable, and that can be the difference between success and failure. Most people make decisions in anger, fear, love, or obligation. You make decisions to irritate people.

  Kim Harrison

  Anger, Differences, People

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• I tell you loneliness is the thing to master. Courage and fear, love, death are only parts of it and can easily be ruled afterwards. If I make myself master my own loneliness there will be peace or safety: and perhaps these are the same.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Love, Loneliness, Safety

  "Gellhorn: A Twentieth Century Life". Book by Caroline Moorehead, p. 88, 2003.

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• Love...no such thing. Whatever it is that binds families and married couples together, that's not love. That's stupidity or selfishness or fear. Love doesn't exist. Self interest exists, attachment based on personal gain exists, complacency exists. But not love. Love has to be reinvented, that’s certain.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Couple, Attachment, Self

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• For this was the round of love: fear which leads on desire, tenderness and fury, and that brutal anguish which triumphantly follows pleasure.

  Francoise Sagan

  Desire, Pleasure, Brutal

  FRANCOISE SAGAN (1955). “BONOUR TRISTESSE”

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• Knowledge was more powerful than fear. Love was stronger than hate.

  Lauren Myracle

  Powerful, Hate, Stronger

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• Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Death, Father, Loss

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2010). “The Prince”, p.69, FastPencil Inc

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• Perfect love drives out fear

  Karen Kingsbury

  Bible, Perfect, Christian Love

  Karen Kingsbury (2008). “Between Sundays”, p.342, Zondervan

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• Then he'd come back home and found out that war didn't cause fear- love did.

  Patricia Briggs

  War, Home, Causes

  Patricia Briggs (2013). “Frost Burned: Mercy Thompson”, p.118, Hachette UK

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• We're hallucinating. And that's what this world is: a mass hallucination, where fear seems more real than love. Fear is an illusion. Our craziness, paranoia, anxiety and trauma are literally all imagined.

  Marianne Williamson

  Real, Anxiety, World

  Marianne Williamson (2009). “A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles”, p.23, Harper Collins

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• Because love is an act of courage, not of fear, love is a commitment to others. No matter where the oppressed are found, the act of love is commitment to their cause--the cause of liberation.

  Paulo Freire

  Commitment, Love Is, Matter

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.89, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.

  Francois Rabelais

  Love, Fear, Forever

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• 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

  Love, God, Spiritual

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• Sport is quite a simple thing. It is play, and in play, people of all ages find the chance to engage their most profound emotions-love, fear, excitement, disappointment, anger and joy.

  Timothy Shriver

  Success, Sports, Disappointment

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• Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

  Marianne Williamson

  Life, Confidence, Fear

  A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.

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• I love Fear Factor, but I think they're running out of fears. It's only a matter of time before they're sitting around doing shots of Hepatitis C.

  Dave Attell

  Running, Thinking, Sitting

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• Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that

  James Neil Hollingworth

  Courage, Fear, Cancer

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• Loving can cost a lot but not loving always cost more.

  Merle Shain

  Inspirational, Fear, Unrequited Love

  Merle Shain (1973). “Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others”

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• You love fear. The ending of fear is death, and you don't want that to happen. I am not talking of wiping out the phobias of the body. They are necessary for survival. The death of fear is the only death.

  U.G. Krishnamurti

  Talking, Survival, Wiping Out

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• I have a very great fear of love. It is so personal. Let each bird fly with its own wings, and each fish swim its own course.--Morning brings more than love. And I want to be true to the morning.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Love, Morning, Swimming

  D. H. Lawrence (1995). “The Plumed Serpent”, p.372, Wordsworth Editions

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• Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• In the shaded portions where the two spheres of different lives meet, certain fundamentals- moods, loves, fears, angers- can't be hidden. That's the contract.

  Jeffery Deaver

  Two, Different, Fundamentals

  Jeffery Deaver (2008). “The Broken Window: A Lincoln Rhyme Novel”, p.273, Simon and Schuster

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• There are rocks deep enough in this earth that no matter what the rupture, they will never see the surface. There is, I think, a fear of love. There is a fear of love.

  Colum McCann

  Thinking, Rocks, Earth

  Colum McCann (2009). “Let the Great World Spin: A Novel”, p.156, Random House

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• Your playing small does not serve the world. Who are you not to be great?

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspiring, Confidence, Fear

  "A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of a 'Course in Miracles'". Book by Marianne Williamson, 1992.

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• People do sometimes change, of course. Habits, allegiances, dreams are all alterable, but only under extraordinary pressure - like great love, fear, grief. More often, people don't change. A girl who never missed a day of work does not suddenly decide to stay home in bed, for no good reason.

  Josephine Humphreys

  Girl, Dream, Grief

  Josephine Humphreys (2000). “Dreams of Sleep”, p.32, Penguin

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• Theoretically, the actor ought to be more sound in mind and body than other people, since he learns to understand the psychological problems of human beings when putting his own passions, his loves, fears, and rages to work in the service of the characters he plays. He will learn to face himself, to hide nothing from himself- and to do so takes AN INSATIABLE CURIOSITY ABOUT THE HUMAN CONDITION

  Uta Hagen

  Character, Passion, Play

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