Love Avoidance Quotes

I'm so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything

I'm a coward when it comes to matters of the heart. That is my fatal flaw.

When I date different guys, I just have to stay away - and not let myself fall. Because if I do, it's over.

Someone who does not run toward the allure of love walks a road where nothing lives.

I've never been seriously involved with anyone. I've certainly never been in love. I've always preferred to keep things casual.

Wouldn't--" Kel began to say, but the words stuck in her mouth. She swallowed and tried again. "Wouldn't it be well, not nice to flirt with somebody you don't want to fall in love with?

If I know the guy is not interested, I don't fall in love. This is my safety.

I've seen men like you in Doris Day films, but I never thought they existed in real life...The men who can't commit, who can't say 'I love you' even when they want to, who start to cough and sputter and change the subject. But here you are. A living, breathing specimen. Incredible.

I'll never fall in love again... it's like having two souls at the same time.

I don't fall in love easily. It's odd; one of the first things I think about when I go out with a woman is what it would be like to be married to her. And yet I have a tough time committing.

I find it's really hard for anybody to meet anyone. I'm not big on dates anyways. I still have to work that out.

You who seek an end of love, love yields to business: be busy, and you will be safe.

I am too ambitious to get into a relationship.

She examined me, she looked at me critically and said, "Why are you trying to starve yourself?" To keep myself from feeling love, from feeling lust, from feeling anything at all.

I don't want to be in love.

I won't let love disrupt, corrupt, or interrupt me.

It's easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net whose cords and knots are strong; but even so, enmeshed, entangled, you can still get out unless, poor fool, you stand in your own way.

I've always been a very restless person. I work hard, spend too much time looking after my son, I dance like a mad thing, I learned calligraphy. I go to courses on selling, I read one book after another. But that's all a way of avoiding those moments when nothing is happening, because those blank spaces give me a feeling of absolute emptiness, in which not a single crumb of love exists.

I think I’ve developed this pattern of running away when it comes time to fall in love and stay in a relationship.

Sometimes I'm not as open to loving.

Women are smart in business and dumb in love. They won't date outside their zip code, let alone outside the city. They are city snobs.

Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went there, but I never would. I'd spend all my life without ever going to China, but it wouldn't matter, because there was all the rest of the world to visit.

Immersing oneself in the problems of a book is a good way to keep from thinking of love.

Somehow, married or single, we'd rather anesthetize ourselves with love substitutes than go for the real thing, because let's face it: The real thing is pretty scary.

I want to get married, but I'm always tortured in relationships.