Love Fear Quotes

Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth. What remains in the bum or studiedly jocular desperation of one who is aware of the obscene Presence in the corner of the room and knows that the door is locked, that there aren't any windows. And now the thing bears down on him. He feels a hand on his sleeve, smells a stinking breath, as the executioner's assistant leans almost amorously toward him. "Your turn next, brother. Kindly step this way." And in an instant his quiet terror is transmuted into a frenzy as violent as it is futile. There is no longer a man among his fellow men, no longer a rational being speaking articulately to other rational beings; there is only a lacerated animal, screaming and struggling in the trap. For in the end fear casts out even a man's humanity. And fear, my good friends, fear is the very basis and foundation of modern life. Fear of the much touted technology which, while it raises out standard of living, increases the probability of our violently dying. Fear of the science which takes away the one hand even more than what it so profusely gives with the other. Fear of the demonstrably fatal institutions for while, in our suicidal loyalty, we are ready to kill and die. Fear of the Great Men whom we have raised, and by popular acclaim, to a power which they use, inevitably, to murder and enslave us. Fear of the war we don't ~ Aldous Huxley

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

I love the first hour of a horror movie, the fear and anticipation. Then, when it gets bloody, I lose interest. ~ Sean Durkin

There are two forces in the universe: fear and love. Trust is part of love because it makes you feel safe, and it is only in this state that you are capable of love. ~ Kimberly Giles

[ ... ] just remember, the storm doesn't last forever. It can scare you; it can shake you to your core. But it never lasts. The rain subsides, the thunder dies, and the winds calm to a soft whisper. And that moment after the storm clouds pass, when all is silent and still, you find peace. Quiet, gentle peace. ~ S.L. Jennings

Don't be afraid to be the person who loves the most ~ Seth Adam Smith

The way we can allow ourselves to do what we need to, no matter what others may say or do, is to choose love and defy fear. ~ Martha Beck

For years she had lived in a vacuum of emotions, and now emotions boiled in her: love, fear, hope, shame, self-pity, pride; each struggled for supremacy, ruling only briefly, before surrendering to a contender that was sometimes darker and sometimes lighter, but always different. ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones

I just don't know that shame and fear need to be our teachers; rather, compassion, understanding, and love should be our guides. ~ Kyan Douglas

A company is stronger if it is bound by love rather than by fear. ~ Herb Kelleher

His function is to act as a focusing point for love, fear, and reverence, emotions which are more easily felt towards an individual than towards an organization. ~ George Orwell

We are all human beings, immigrant or non-immigrant. We all feel fear. We all love and become confused when we don't act as well as we would like to. We all get depressed and have feelings of uselessness. All of these things are true and have always been true. ~ Akhil Sharma

My dad always tell me to make decisions from love and not from fear. ~ Rashida Jones

Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear. ~ Cyril Connolly

Mutual fear is a principal link in the chain of mutual love. ~ Thomas Paine

Animals do feel like us, also joy, love, fear and pain but they cannot grasp the spoken word. It is our obligation to take their part and continue to resist the people who profit by them, who slaughter them and who torture them. ~ Denis De Rougemont

Fear commonly makes adversaries of us. But sometimes, in the rarest, most frightening moments, fate brings together people, forming everlasting friendships and occasionally, the remarkable bond of love. ~ Nihar Sharma

It was on the steamer carrying him through the Golden Gate that he happened to reach down into the hole in the lining of the right pocket of his overcoat and discover the envelope that his brother had solemnly handed to him almost a month before. It contained a single piece of paper, which Thomas had hastily stuffed into it that morning as they all were leaving the house together for the last time, by way or in lieu of expressing the feelings of love, fear, and hopefulness that his brother's escape inspired. It was the drawing of Harry Houdini, taking a calm cup of tea in the middle of the sky, that Thimas had made in his notebook during his abortive career as a librettist. Josef studied it, feeling as he sailed toward freedom as if he weighed nothing at all, as if every precious burden had been lifted from him. ~ Michael Chabon

Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them. ~ Dorothy Day

The basic premise of 'A Course in Miracles' is that it teaches us to relinquish thoughts based on fear and to accept instead thoughts based on love. ~ Marianne Williamson

Perfect love casteth out fear. ~ William Penn

She had died, I just never told her. So still, we walk, eat and sleep together, in fear one day she'll come to realize it. ~ Anthony Liccione

I don't know whether it's a fear of standing up, but I really love sitting at the table and blabbing. I learn so much that way, and I think I get free that way, free from inhibition and fears. ~ Mare Winningham

We all have that burning question about what happens if we lose somebody we love, especially if we lose them tragically. We wonder what fear was going on, we wonder if we could have reached out and touched them, held their hand, looked in their eyes, been there. ~ Kevin Costner

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. That is not to say they don't exist for us as human beings. They do. But our fear is not our ultimate reality, and it does not replace the truth of who we really are. Our love, which is our real self, doesn't die, but merely goes underground. ~ Marianne Williamson

As a parent, you experience the most of everything. The most love, the most fear, the most hurt and the most tired, the most of every emotion. ~ Sarah Shahi

Beauvoir knew that the root of all evil wasn't money. No, what created and drove evil was fear. Fear of not having enough money, enough food, enough land, enough power, enough security, enough love. Fear of not getting what you want, or losing what you have. ~ Louise Penny

I have heard for mortals, the feeling of falling in love is very much like the feeling of fear ~ Holly Black

One of my fears would be getting torn apart by a great white shark. I love the ocean, but I always have this deep fear of getting torn apart by a great whitey. ~ Theo James

It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love. ~ Alan Paton

Passionately obsessed by anything we love
an avalanche of magic flattens the way ahead, levels, rules, reasons, dissents, bears us with it over chasms, fears, doubts. Without the power of that love ... ~ Richard Bach

There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where there is intense love, there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface. ~ Arianna Huffington

I couldn't see anything beyond this. Beyond her. Beyond us.

(Blaine) ~ S.L. Jennings

My biggest fear has always been being 40 and hating my job. I love challenges. I'm not afraid to try anything. ~ Carla Hall

The thing about Republicans is that they don't care so much about respect, but they love fear, at least in others. ~ Jane Smiley

You don't really love me, or you never would have treated me like you did. You were just afraid of letting me go. There's a difference, and no one knows that better than I do. We were both afraid of moving on, me of what I really wanted. It brought us together, it bound us, but no longer. I am done with making decisions based on fear. [Nicholas to Grace] ~ Emily Colin

Art is the lens through which I experience the world. Art is the medium to present the human condition ... love, fear, bewilderment, pleasure, distaste, brotherhood and all the subtleties that we all know ... ~ Alton Tobey

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

Perfect love drives out fear ~ Karen Kingsbury

For, without the knowledge of love, fear is all that remains, and we can never feel safe. ~ Joan Borysenko

There is that awful moment when you realize that you're falling in love. That should be the most joyful moment, and actually it's not. It's always a moment that's full of fear because you know, as night follows day, the joy is going to rapidly be followed by some pain or other. All the angst of a relationship. ~ Helen Mirren

Dolls, perhaps more than any other object, demonstrate just how thin the line between love and fear, comfort and horror, can be. They are objects of love and sources of reassurance for children, coveted prizes for collectors, sources of terror and horror in numerous movies, television shows, books, and stories. ~ Ellen Datlow

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary. ~ Emmanuel Teney

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement. ~ Gerald Jampolsky

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

If one has fear, there can be no initiative in the creative sense of the word. To have initiative in this sense is to do something original - to do it spontaneously, naturally, without being guided, forced, controlled. It is to do something which you love to do. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

In dread fear of sentimentality, another thing true is not said-that for its staff the paper is a source of pride and, I do believe, an object of affection and-yes, love. ~ Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

Experience tells me habits are stronger than love, fear, and necessity. ~ Alejandra Diaz Mattoni

I'm a spiritual person, she said. I believe in Allah, you know, though I don't always call It 'Allah' and I pray the way I want to pray. Sometimes I just look out at the stars and this love-fear thing comes over me, you know? And sometimes I might sit in a Christian church listening to them talk about Isa with a book of Hafiz in my hands instead of the hymnal. And you know what, Yusef? Sometimes, every once in a while, I get out my old rug and I pray like Muhammad prayed. I never learned the shit in Arabic and my knees are uncovered, but if Allah has a problem with that then what kind of Allah do we believe in? ~ Michael Muhammad Knight

The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent. ~ Edward Dahlberg

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

Love is easy. It's being afraid that's hard. ~ Jennifer Megan Varnadore

The writer is both a sadist and a masochist. We create people we love, and then we torture them. The more we love them, and the more cleverly we torture them along the lines of their greatest vulnerability and fear, the better the story. ~ Janet Fitch

Caregiving requires the intention of love, caretaking requires the intention of fear. Not acting in anger when you are angry requires the intention of love. ~ Gary Zukav

What's powerful about a love scene is not seeing the act. It's seeing the passion, the need, the desire, the caring, the fear. ~ Patrick Swayze

More than fantasy or even science fiction, Ray Bradbury wrote horror, and like so many great horror writers he was himself utterly without fear, of anything. He wasn't afraid of looking uncool - he wasn't scared to openly love innocence, or to be optimistic, or to write sentimentally when he felt that way. ~ Lev Grossman

But I love being scared. I think you're brave only when you do things that scare you. I've always used fear as a motivator. I'm not sure why. ~ Ginnifer Goodwin

Fear isn't the opposite of love; fear is what arises when love isn't there, so maybe, I reasoned, there is only one emotion. There is only love, and the abscence of love. ~ Anna Raverat

When love is absent, then there is fear, and in my opinion you should lead your entire life through love. ~ Lauren London

Miracles, or those extraordinary manifestations of the power of god, are not for the unbeliever; they are to console the Saints, and to strengthen and confirm the faith of those who love, fear, and serve God. ~ Brigham Young

For those who have true love, have no limits of expressing their love to one another yet it is a sad fact that those who are searching for love, fear expressing their love to even those who love them. ~ Auliq Ice

Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love. ~ William Hazlitt

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

You think it is so different because you live here in this time, in this place, because I'm from the far side of the sea. But we are attached by the water between us. It is the same tide and moon, the same sea, love, fear, losing, and death. Love does not change with time. The love that fills us and empties us, that clips our wings so that
we must decide whether to learn to fly after that. To love or to fear. ~ Patti Callahan Henry

Child, it's a very bad thing for a woman to face the worst that can happen to her, because after she's faced the worst she can't ever really fear anything again ... Scarlett, always save something to fear - even as you save something to love ... ~ Margaret Mitchell

Wicked men obey for fear, but the good for love. ~ Aristotle.

Perfect love may cast our fear, but fear is remarkably potent in casting out love. ~ P.D. James

Fear's the only obstacle that gets in the way of doing what we love. Fear holds us back from living the lives we're made to live. ~ Miley Cyrus

Now: I am an affectionate man but I have much trouble showing it.

When I was younger I used to worry so much about being alone - of being unlovable or incapable of love. As the years went on, my worries changed. I worried that I had become incapable of having a relationship, of offering intimacy. I felt as though the world lived inside a warm house at night and I was outside, and I couldn't be seen - because I was out there in the night. But now I am inside that house and it feels just the same.

Being alone here now, all of my old fears are erupting - the fears I thought I had buried forever by getting married: fear of loneliness; fear that being in and out of love too many times itself makes you harder to love; fear that I would never experience real love; fear that someone would fall in love with me, get extremely close, learn everything about me and then pull the plug; fear that love is only important up until a certain point after which everything is negotiable.

For so many years I lived a life of solitude and I thought life was fine. But I knew that unless I explored intimacy and shared intimacy with someone else then life would never progress beyond a certain point. I remember thinking that unless I knew what was going on inside of someone else's head other than my own I was going to explode. ~ Douglas Coupland

His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and don't let the fear of failure stop you. ~ Oliver Hudson

There is no fear when you choose love. The more you choose love, the more love is in your life. It gets easier and easier. ~ Melissa Etheridge

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

Let go, Jo. Replace all your fears with love. ~ Rachel Hauck

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

When I first played live, I would shake with fear, and my voice would tremble. But I do it for the love of it. There's nothing I love more than playing live. ~ Eliza Doolittle

No one ever asks "Why are you married?" even though the question is just as valid as "Why are you single?" After all, people marry for many reasons other than pure love--fear of being alone, a desire for biological children, economic security, social status, health insurance. ~ Sara Eckel

My parents taught me to zoom in, ya know? It's easy to judge others from afar. It's easy to look at someone from outside your world and make blanket statements and judgments on who those people are. Because when you see others' flaws, you somewhat justify that your flaws are better than theirs. But when you zoom in, when
you truly look at the person beside you, you'll see many of the same things. Hope. Love. Fear. Anger. Once you zoom in, you realize we are all similar in so many ways. We all bleed red, and even monster's hearts can break. Just gotta remember to always zoom in. ~ Brittainy C. Cherry

As we fear God more completely, we love Him more perfectly. And 'perfect love casteth out all fear'. ~ David A. Bednar

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it! ~ May Sarton

The more two people open to each other, the more this wide-openness also brings to the surface all the obstacles to it: their deepest, darkest wounds, their desperation and mistrust, and their rawest emotional trigger points. Just as the sun's warmth causes clouds to arise by prompting the earth to release its moisture, so love's pure openness activates the thick clouds of our emotional wounding, the tight places where we are shut down, where we live in fear and resist love. ~ John Welwood

Love casts out fear, for when we know we are loved, we are not afraid. Whoever has God's perfect love, fear is gone out of the universe for him. ~ A.W. Tozer

The absence of fear is love. ~ Chris Murphy

It is tragic the way fearful people put all of their fears and insecurities into others; the way they strangle their dreams - often in the name of love. ~ Bryant McGill

Absent love, fear will do nicely in a pinch. ~ Pierce Brown

It's rare that you can promote a love story and feel fear in a film. ~ Cary Fukunaga

I love the competitive part of stocks. A lot of fear and greed, that's all it is. All I see is green and red. ~ Josh Brolin

Once we're willing to confront our emotional suffering, we begin making choices based on attraction instead of aversion, love instead of fear. Where we used to think about what was 'safe,' we now become interested in doing what seems right or fun or meaningful or ripe with possibilities. ~ Martha Beck

It's easy to dismiss girls who work on the streets as deadbeats or drug addicts without ever thinking about why they're working as prostitutes. And the truth is that many of them have been trafficked and they work long, exhausting, miserable, soul-destroying hours for men who are cruel and violent. They're constantly afraid, not just because of what might be done to them if they don't do what they're told, but also because of the very real threats that are made against their families and the people they love. ~ Sophie Hayes

If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend. ~ Henri Nouwen

I love the ocean. I've always liked the blue, so tranquil and peaceful and gliding. And the fear of it. ~ Siouxsie Sioux

Fear is the root cause behind most of lies. And many big problems starts from lies, which can be prevented by following a simple rule. Just change Fear into Love! ~ Atlas Gondal

Until recently, we regarded love as supernatural. We were willing to study the brain chemistry of fear and depression and anger but not love. ~ Helen Fisher

When someone fears losing your affection, he or she will strive to keep it. Perhaps you have strived to keep someone's affection, too. Fear of loss is not love. ~ Gary Zukav

It never ceases to amaze me when God wants to take someone to the next level in their life and they let fear of the unknown rob them of tremendous blessings. I think there are two common problems with Christians- They are scared to death of being truly free and of God's overwhelming love. ~ R. Alan Woods

The first step is to distinguish the loving parts of your personality that are active from the frightened parts of your personality that are active - in other words, to learn to distinguish love from fear in you. The second step is to choose love, no matter what. ~ Gary Zukav

To live is to be vulnerable. To love is to fear. And the one who is not afraid--that person is calm like a boa constrictor and cannot love. ~ Marina Dyachenko

When we know Love, fear has no value in our presence. There is no pressure to perform and mask our humanity. We can BE and when we BE. We can inspire others to BE. ~ E'yen A. Gardner

He was't just my exception. He was my reason. ~ S.L. Jennings

Actually, I have this random fear, and it's of bees and wasps. Bees and wasps actually scare me just a little bit. I'd rather have a snake or a crocodile, yes ... I appreciate them, and I love them, but I have a slight fear. ~ Bindi Irwin

[ ... ] when you know, you know. And you don't fight it. You don;t deny the inevitable. You free fall because you know there's someone there to catch you on the other side. ~ S.L. Jennings