Jenny Lawson Quotes

Even though I'm in love, sometimes I get so afraid.

I get very nervous when I have to take my wedding ring off.

It takes time to love someone properly, and in this business, you get very wary of people.

People could rationally decide that prolonged relationships take up too much time and effort and that they'd much rather do other kinds of things. But most people are afraid of rejection.

Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.

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.

Kissing is kind of scary.

Relationships. Ugh. You have to laugh sometimes.

The anxiety of falling in love could not find repose except in bed.

Connection and love: We all want it. Most people settle for connection because love's too scary.

You want to take me to a movie?" I asked. "Well, not really," he said. "What I really want is for you to be my girlfriend. But I thought saying that might scare you off.

When you're friends with someone, you can't just go out to dinner and say 'O.K., now this is a date.' You've got to do something very different.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

When we were courting, I told my wife: 'I could live in your eyes.' She said: 'You'd be at home; there's a stye in one of them.'

I don't date my girlfriend because she's a model. I date her because I love her.

I never have actually had a girl who's made me laugh before.

Trust me, if I were gay I'd be getting more action than I'm getting now.

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

I don't think I'm unlike a lot of people. I am just someone who is trying to find that mate, and I think it's a really hard thing to do.

I like all of the early relationship strips that were collected in 'Love Is Hell,' where I pretended to be an expert in relationships and did comics like 'The Nine Types of Boyfriends,' 'Sixteen Ways to End a Relationship,' 'Twenty-Four Things Not to Say in Bed,' and other arbitrarily numbered lists.

I think I'd make a pretty good girlfriend.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what's going to happen. It's one of the most beautiful things in life, but it's one of the most terrifying. It's worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.

Having girlfriends is... I can't do it. It doesn't mean I don't hang out with girls. It just means that I don't like being in a relationship, because it makes things very complicated. The one piece of advice that I listen to adults on - because I don't listen to adults when it comes to most things - is that I'm too young to have a girlfriend.