Sylvia Day Quotes

If you are a card-carrying human being, chances are that you share the same fear as all other humans: the fear of losing love, respect and connection to others. And if you are human, in order to avoid or prevent the pain, trauma and perceived devastation of the loss, you will do anything to avoid your greatest fear from being visited on you.

I think I was a pretty anxious dreamer, maybe a fundamentally lonely kid.

What do you fear, most of all? The possibility that love may not be enough.

If you love, you will suffer. The only way to protect yourself against suffering is to protect yourself against love - and that is the greatest suffering of all, loneliness.

I'm afraid I'll lose myself in you, Gideon. I'm scared I'll lose the part of me I worked so hard to get back." "I'd never let that happen." he promised fiercely. Chapter 8, pg 140

Even in the depths of sleep, in which he had to satisfy his need for protection and love by curling himself up into a trembling ball, he could not rid himself of the feeling of loneliness and homelessness.

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung.

Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness, except greed.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

I am not the most courageous guy in the world outside of the court. Being alone in the dark is something I don't like.

I never feel more alone than when I'm traveling. Alone and, to some extent, helpless. The world expects a certain level of competence and can be merciless when this expectation is unmet.

I can't even say what my greatest fear is because I, I can't even imagine. Being without my family... I can't even say it because it makes me cry.

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.

To good and true love fear is forever affixed.

The idea of feeling isolated is scary to me - to walk through the world alone would be heartbreaking.

I was just a bit of a loner as a young boy. And very, very sensitive. Ever the emotional young thing.

I couldn't really trust anyone. Not completely.

I can't be alone.

I've always thrown myself into love in a rather carefree way, and the net result is that you do get hurt. But I wouldn't take away any of the experiences of my life.

We have our moments of emotional vulnerabilities as any other human being, and my greatest fear gnawing away at me is losing my loved ones.

One of my biggest fears is thinking that there are people in my house when I'm home alone.

Everything that scared me is losing people I love, and everyone that I really love, as it relates to females, I've lost. So what it's made me be is the animal that I am because I don't want to sit down and think about the things that are hurting me, but, you know.