Love and Fear Quotes

I am sorry I ran from you. I am still running, running from that knowledge, that eye, that love from which there is no refuge. For you meant only love, and love, and I felt only fear, and pain. So once in Israel love came to us incarnate, stood in the doorway between two worlds, and we were all afraid.

On this earth, though far and near, without love, there's only fear.

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

Although in my life the level of loss has never reached the extremes it does in 'The Winter People,' I certainly can identify with being both a daughter longing for her mother and being a mother who is almost scared by the intensity of her love for her daughter.

He who loves has conquered the world and has no fear of losing anything. True love is an act of total surrender.

Our interactions with one another reflect a dance between love and fear.

Love is indeed Heaven upon Earth; since Heaven above would not be Heaven without it: For where there is not Love; there is Fear: But perfect Love casts out Fear. And yet we naturally fear most to offend what we most Love.

My biggest fear is the people I love not knowing how much I love them. I just want to remind people all the time.

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

There are two emotions: love and fear.

We are made up of two contrasting ideals: Love And Fear. Pick One and Live.

One who loves must learn fear. One who fears must learn love. The thinker must do. The doer must think. The pacifist must fight, the fighter must find peace. If you flow as a river, burn as a fire. If you burn as a furnace, flow as a river. If you fly as a bird, sit firm as a rock. If you sit firmly, then fly as a bird. Be a fire that flows. A rock that flies. Love with fear and fear with love. For we are not fire, not water, not air, not rocks, not thoughts, not deeds, not fear, not love. We are G-dly beings.

Love didn't grow very well in a place where there was only fear

Is that all we need? Can the way we say each other's names encompass all our history, all our love, all our fear, all our fights, all our reunions, all of what we know about each other, all of what we don't know?

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.

I was very much in love with my mother. She was a very warm and a very cold woman. When she was warm, I tried to come close to her. But she could be very cold and rejecting.

Fear is a cloak which old men huddle about their love, as if to keep it warm.

They who cannot be induced to fear for love will never be enforced to love for fear. Love opens the heart, fear shuts it; that encourages, this compels; and victory meets encouragement, but flees compulsion.

- and you are truly human now. You can love, and fear, and forbid things to be what they are, and overact.

Teenagers watch and listen to all kinds of things. It is the nature of being a teenager to seek out intense stuff. Stuff about death and sex and love and fear. Teenagers are the bravest, most curious, most philosophical, most open-minded readers there are, which is why so many less-than-young adults like writing for them.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution

I think I actually did write about love because I kind of had a fear of it, like we all do, nobody wants to get hurt.

I know, from the three visits I made to him, the blended composite of love and fear that exists only in a boy's notion of his father.

Fear and love can never be experienced at the same time. It is always our choice as to which of these emotions we want.

The boy that you loved is the man that you fear.