145 Love Is Scary Quotes

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Love is full of anxious fears. — Ovid

Love is trembling happiness. - Kahlil Gibran

Love is trembling happiness. — Kahlil Gibran

It's okay to be scared, but fear is different. Fear is when we let being scared prevent us from doing what love requires of us. — Mairead Corrigan

I've never fallen in love right off the bat. I get scared to say I love you too soon because it means so much. It means you're not seeing an end to things. — Leighton Meester

To fear love is to fear life. — Bertrand Russell

What uneasiness lies in being loved. — Osamu Dazai

Love is a dangerous thing, it can be great and it can be awful. It might make or break your life. It could even change you as a person. — Shannon Leto

Love is like a roller coaster. It can take you to the highest, most spectacular heights or drop you to bottom in seconds. However, even with the risks, love is undoubtedly worth it in the end. — Sheila Jackson Lee

Love is not love until love's vulnerable. — Theodore Roethke

Love is a slippery eel that bites like hell — Bertrand Russell

Love is no assignment for cowards. - Ovid

Love is no assignment for cowards. — Ovid

Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don't have the ability to be lovable. — Dick Gregory

Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come. — Matt Groening

Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong. — Rick Riordan

Everything that is worthwhile in life is scary. Choosing a school, choosing a career, getting married, having kids - all those things are scary. If it is not fearful, it is not worthwhile. — Paul Tournier

Short Love Is Scary Quotes

  • Love is bigger then a tsunami, stronger then any fear. — Bethany Hamilton
  • You have to have courage to love somebody. Because you risk everything. Everything. — Maya Angelou
  • The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness. — Robert Bly
  • Love is a wonderful thing, my dear, but it leaves you wide open for blackmail. — Jasper Fforde
  • Love is a state of temporary psychosis. — Sigmund Freud
  • Love is a serious mental disease. — Plato

Love Is Scary Image Quotes

Love is scary quote Your mind will always believe everything you tell it. Feed it hope. Feed it truth. Feed it with love
Your mind will always believe everything you tell it. Feed it hope. Feed it truth. Feed it with love.

Being In Love Is Scary Quotes

I'm a very social person and I love being out in the world, and the feeling of not having that is the scariest thing to me. — Elizabeth Olsen

I think being able to really fall in love with someone is the craziest thing that could ever happen. You know, allowing yourself to really go there and really feel those things is extremely scary. — Sayings

With Scary Movie 4 I couldn't say no because I loved being in the first one and even though it is a cameo, it's so worth it because it is so much fun to do. — Carmen Electra

Love is scary quote The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measur
The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure.

I always wanted to be in the world of entertainment. I just love the idea of an audience being happy with what I am doing. Writing is showbusiness for shy people. That's how I see it. — Lee Child

Love Is A Scary Thing Quotes

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. — Ariana Grande

Love is scary because it pulls you in with an intense force, a supermassive black hole which looks like nothing from the outside but from the inside challenges every reasonable thing you know. You lose yourself, like I lost myself, in the warmest of annihilations. — Matt Haig

I think the script's actually pretty solid. It really is a labor of love for us to get this thing off the ground. It was scary but then there was the change in leadership and I think that the new guy in charge is basically like, "We should just do this." — Nicholas Stoller

Love is scary quote Everyone comes with baggage. Find someone who loves you enough to help you unpack.
Everyone comes with baggage. Find someone who loves you enough to help you unpack.

I think there's a perception of me that I'm the dark lord of all that is scary and gory, but that's completely false. I love musicals. My house is very bright and lit. It's not what people would really expect from a Saw director, but I think that's what allows me to do the things that I do. — Darren Lynn Bousman

We can all agree that first loves can be a scary thing, and that growing up is hard to do. — Meg Cabot

Creepy Quotes

Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story. — Mason Cooley

I discovered that what most people call creepy, scary, and spooky, I call comfy, cozy, and home. — Zak Bagans

Approval seeking behavior is not masculine. It is creepy, stalker-like behavior. — Corey Wayne

There is nothing strange, creepy, or inappropriate about John Travolta . - Scarlett Johansson

There is nothing strange, creepy, or inappropriate about John Travolta . — Scarlett Johansson

Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code? — Doug Coupland

I had to break up with my last girlfriend for lying about being raped by her neighbor. But I've met her neighbor, he's a cool guy. Not like her other creepy ass neighbor though. — Anthony Jeselnik

Love is scary quote How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

I couldn't get any jobs, and when that happens, you get so humble it's disgusting. I didn't feel like a man anymore -- I felt really creepy. I was bumping into walls and saying, Excuse me. — Joe Pesci

Shadows of a thousand years rise again unseen, Voices whisper in the trees, "Tonight is Halloween!" — Dexter Kozen

We believe we are creating the beginning of a new world order coming out of the collapse of the US-Soviet antagonisms. — Brent Scowcroft

How to Achieve The New World Order — Henry A. Kissinger

Terrified Of Love Quotes

I love science, and it pains me to think that so many are terrified of the subject or feel that choosing science means you cannot also choose compassion, or the arts, or be awed by nature. Science is not meant to cure us of mystery, but to reinvent and reinvigorate it. — Robert M. Sapolsky

When I try to write love, it only turns into horror. Thinking about it with a clear head, feeling such deep emotions to some other person you don't even know is truly a terrifying thingI wonder if love isn't a manifestation of madness in some way. — Gen Urobuchi

Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can and surely will at times fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying, too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk. — Joyce Brothers

Love is scary quote If I cut you off chances are you handed me the scissors.
If I cut you off chances are you handed me the scissors.

To love is to be afraid. You are frightened, deathly terrified, that something will happen to those you love. Think of the possibilities. Does your heart clench with each thought? That, my friend, is love. And love enslaves us all, for you cannot have love without fear. — Sayings

Nothing humbles and breaks the heart of a sinner like mercy and love. Souls that converse much with sin and wrath, may be much terrified; but souls that converse much with grace and mercy, will be much humbled. — Thomas Brooks

I love horror films, but it's more than an adrenaline rush for me. I love them because I know they scare me. It's kind of like I go on roller coasters, but I'm terrified of roller coasters, sort of thing. — Emily Browning

Love is scary quote To love a person is to see all of their magic, and to remind them of it when they have forgotten.
To love a person is to see all of their magic, and to remind them of it when they have forgotten.

People love the chaos in my brain, but I'm terrified of it. — Lady Gaga

Tereza knew what happens during the moment love is born: the woman cannot resist the voice calling forth her terrified soul; the man cannot resist the woman whose soul thus responds to his voice. — Milan Kundera

A lot of people love the idea of improvising but are terrified of it, so I tried to make a book that was not a chef's book about improvising but a real home cook's book with a real home cook's pantry, supermarket ingredients, that sort of thing. — Sally Schneider

There's no doubt about it, show business lures the people who didn't get enough love, attention, or approval early in life and have grown up to become bottomless, gaping vessels of terrifying, abject need. Please laugh. — Dennis Miller

Fear Of Love Quotes

The best political weapon is the weapon of terror. Cruelty commands respect. Men may hate us. But, we don't ask for their love; only for their fear. — Heinrich Himmler

Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation. — Albert Einstein

Now is the time to understand more, so we fear less. — Marie Curie

Love is scary quote Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.
Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.

Love expects no reward. Love knows no fear. Love Divine gives - does not demand. Love thinks no evil; imputes no motive. To Love is to share and serve. — Sivananda

Understand the place of love in a spiritual life. A powerful and blissful type of love has no conditions, no ownership and no people involved. Be free from fear. Be who you are. That is love. — Ajahn Brahm

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

Love is scary quote I hope to arrive to my death, late, in love and a little drunk.
I hope to arrive to my death, late, in love and a little drunk.

Because love is an act of courage, not of fear, love is a commitment to others. No matter where the oppressed are found, the act of love is commitment to their cause--the cause of liberation. — Paulo Freire

Should I worship Him from fear of hell, may I be cast into it. Should I serve Him from desire of gaining heaven, may He keep me out. But should I worship Him from love alone, He reveals Himself to me, that my whole heart may be filled with His love and presence. — Sadhu Sundar Singh

If you don't know the guy on the other side of the world, love him anyway because he's just like you. He has the same dreams, the same hopes and fears. It's one world, pal. We're all neighbors. — Frank Sinatra

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death. — Julius Caesar

Afraid To Love Quotes

I ain't afraid to love a man. I ain't afraid to shoot him either. — Annie Oakley

I ain't afraid to love a man. — Annie Oakley

I’d cut my soul into a million different pieces just to form a constellation to light your way home. I’d write love poems to the parts of yourself you can’t stand. I’d stand in the shadows of your heart and tell you I’m not afraid of your dark. — Andrea Gibson

Love is scary quote The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

When it comes time to sit down and write the next book, you're deathly afraid that you're not up to the task. That was certainly the case with me after Snow Falling on Cedars. — David Guterson

Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live. — Natalie Babbitt

Having limits to push against is how you find out what you can do. I have always been full of contradictions. I am shy but I love the freedom of the stage. I need reassurance but at the same time I don’t want it. I hate being afraid but I can’t help wanting to frighten myself. That is how you grow. — Sylvie Guillem

Love is scary quote Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

Don't ever be afraid of giving. Give. Give of your time, your forgiveness, your understanding, your love. Give of your money. Give to the creation, and you'll be given by the Creator. Be generous, and the Most Generous will be generous with you. — Yasmin Mogahed

We are not afraid of predators, we're transfixed by them, prone to weave stories and fables and chatter endlessly about them, because fascination creates preparedness, and preparedness, survival. In a deeply tribal way, we love our monsters. — E. O. Wilson

And I'll see your true colors shining through I see your true colors and that's why I love you so don't be afraid to let them show your true colors, true colors are beautiful like a RAINBOW. — Cyndi Lauper

Why am I afraid to dance, I who love music and rhythm and grace and song and laughter? Why am I afraid to live, I who love life and the beauty of flesh and the living colors of the earth and sky and sea? Why am I afraid to love, I who love love? — Eugene O'Neill

Love Is Dangerous Quotes

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time. — Marcel Proust

It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved. — W. Somerset Maugham

I learned two things growing up in Texas. 1: God loves you, and you're going to burn in hell forever. 2: Sex is the dirtiest and most dangerous thing you can possibly do, so save it for someone you love. — Molly Ivins

Love is scary quote A strong person loves, forgives, walks away, lets go, tries again, perseveres... No matter what life
A strong person loves, forgives, walks away, lets go, tries again, perseveres... No matter what life throws at them.

The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. — William Sloane Coffin, Jr.

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it's on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you've got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration. — Taylor Swift

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The grace of God is dangerous. It's lavish, excessive, outrageous, and scandalous. God's grace is ridiculously inclusive. Apparently God doesn't care who He loves. He is not very careful about the people He calls His friends or the people He calls His church. — Mike Yaconelli

When we preach the love of God there is a danger of forgetting that the Bible reveals not first the love of God but the intense, blazing holiness of God, with His love at the center of that holiness. — Oswald Chambers

Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their own chaos. — William Irwin Thompson

Anger is one letter short of danger. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Scary Quotes

beginnings are usually scary, and endings are usually sad, but its everything in between that makes it all worth living. — Bob Marley

Devout Christians are destined to be regarded as fools in modern society. We are fools for Christ's sake. We must pray for courage to endure the scorn of the sophisticated world. — Antonin Scalia

Women should not be enlightened or educated in any way. They should, in fact, be segregated as they are the cause of hideous and involuntary erections in holy men. — Unknown Author

I am actually as good as everybody else pretends to be. It's scary. — Dean Ambrose

I think the basic culture of this country is European and Christian and I think that if we lose that, we lost America...I don't think we should suppress other races, but I think if we lose that White - what's the word for it - that White dominance in America, with it we lose America. — David Duke

I think Bigfoot is blurry, that's the problem. It's not the photographer's fault. Bigfoot is blurry, and that's extra scary to me. There's a large, out-of-focus monster roaming the countryside. Run, he's fuzzy, get out of here. — Mitch Hedberg

One can be sophisticated and believe in God. Reason and intellect are not to be laid aside where matters of religion are concerned. — Antonin Scalia

Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species. — St. Jerome

The present map of Palestine was drawn by the British mandate. The Jewish people have another map which our youth and adults should strive to fulfill: from the Nile to the Euphrates. — David Ben-Gurion

Yes, photography saved my life. Every time I go through something scary, traumatic, I survive by taking pictures. — Nan Goldin

Love And Fear Quotes

Go forth in peace, for you have followed the good road. Go forth without fear, for he who created you has made you holy, has always protected you, and loves you as a mother. Blessed be you, my God, for having created me. — Clare of Assisi

Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide. — Marva Collins

you must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right. - Rosa Parks

you must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right. — Rosa Parks

When we choose to love, we choose to move against fear, against alienation and separation. The choice to love is a choice to connect, to find ourselves in the other. — Bell Hooks

My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world. — Jack Layton

If we wish to serve God and love our neighbor well, we must manifest our joy in the service we render to Him and them. Let us open wide our hearts. It is joy which invites us. Press forward and fear nothing. — Katharine Drexel

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

Zora Neale Hurston said fear is the greatest emotion and I said, 'No my dear sister.' Fear will make us move to save our own skins. Love also makes us save ourselves, but it will make us move to save others as well. — Sonia Sanchez

Selfless love is always costly; fear can't afford it, pride doesn't understand it and friends never forget it. — Bob Goff

Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind....Fo r Love not only annihilates our fear of meaninglessness but empowers us to seek the happiness of others. And this indeed is our greatest happiness. — Leo Tolstoy

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More Love Is Scary Quotes

Falling is scary but good practice for life. We must fall. In love. Out of love. Into new experiences. Out of old habits. Deeper and further into ourselves. We must fall, life is falling over forward. The only choice we have is how we let go. — Troian Bellisario

There is something haunting in the light of the moon. — Joseph Conrad

Love is scary, like anything else, whether you're falling in love, whether you're discovering love in something else...if you're really going to jump off the cliff, when you meet somebody that you love you're going to jump off that cliff, you've got to give them everything. And when you have a kid, it's on a much greater level. — Kate Hudson

It's scary being loved. Because life is complicated and all too often it throws you off balance by sending you the right person at the wrong time. — Guillaume Musso

Nothing on Earth is so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night. — Steve Almond

The severity of the law of God is the necessary sequence of his infinite love. — G. Campbell Morgan

To learn your artistry and to be able to perfect that, is overwhelming. Especially when you are exuding love. The human emotion is a very delicate thing, so you have to be careful about how you present it because it can be kind of scary, or too overwhelming if you're not careful. So I try to just keep it love. — Whitney Houston

I'd rather people love me or hate me than have no opinion of me. Indifference is scary. — Lady Gaga

Halloween is huge in my house and we really get into the "spirits" of things. — Dee Snider

I'm not a huge fan of scary movies, but I love doing them because your character arc gets condensed, and everything is elevated, and so you kind of have this amazing opportunity to go in many different places. — Imogen Poots

AugustineThe wounds of a friend are better than the kisses of an enemy. To love with sternness is better than to deceive with gentleness.... In Luke [14:23] it is written: "Compel people to come in!" By threats of the wrath of God, the Father draws souls to his Son. — Saint Augustine

Cancer is messy and scary. You throw everything at it, but don't forget to throw love at it. It turns out that might be the best weapon of all. — Regina Brett

Love me or hate me, Scary Spice is back. — Melanie Brown

I love my boys so much I fear my heart will explode. I wonder if this love will crack open my chest and split me in half. It is scary, this love. — Amy Poehler

Love is scary: it changes; it can go away. That's the part of the risk. I don't want to be scared anymore. — Jenny Han

I am no longer alone with myself, and I can only artificially recall the scary and beautiful feeling of solitude. This is the shadow side of the fortune of love. — Carl Jung

What I enjoy the most is portraying villains like a vampire, a serial killer, a supernatural creature, etc... That's when I have the most fun, creating those roles. I also love playing the hero in horror movies, because then I get to really be believable, truthful to feel the terror, the scariness, the horror, and be able to really transmit that to the audiences watching the movie or that TV series. — Massimo Dobrovic

I know for me, specifically, L.A. is just an overwhelming and scary place. I like spending part of my year there, but I love having Canada as my home to come back to. — Kristen Hager

Stop trying to figure it out. I love puzzles, but when I'm done putting together a puzzle, I feel accomplished, and then I wonder, "What's next?" Then I go start another puzzle. Life is a puzzle that I feel like we'll never fully put together. And I like that because, ultimately, I don't want to have life figured out and then wonder, "What's next?" That seems scary to me. — Josh McDermitt

I love scary movies. I like American Horror Story. That is more of a series, but it is really good. — Daniel Jacobs

There is a secret about human love that is commonly overlooked: Receiving it is much more scary and threatening than giving it. — John Welwood

In music in general, you're always getting a lot of information, buts it's most important to have honest communication. It's always important to understand that we can do so much individually if we connect with one another and have honest conversations. As scary as it is, it can be very liberating. Staying connected to the people you love and staying connected to the things that really matter has been my biggest lesson. — Jillian Hervey

After the first one [Twilight Saga movie], as soon as people start referring to something as a franchise. A franchise is a Burger King or a Subway. It's not a movie. The people who start to say it are generally the people who are making money off of it. That's how they refer to it. They love it when something has become a franchise. But, as an actor, I think it's scary. — Robert Pattinson

I love being vulnerable. It's scary. I feel like the best stuff that I have ever written can come from real vulnerable places. — Mat Kearney

Marriage is a really scary thing. I'm excited about it. I know it's not a mistake, it's the absolute right thing to do. I'm really happy about it. I really, really love my fiancee. We're good friends and I think it's going to work. But that's just the point - it's going to take work. It does make me feel vulnerable to be like, wow, I'm committed to this person for the rest of my life. — John Rzeznik

For me, the thing that I love about the show is the psychological thriller aspect of it. It's frightening and it's scary, and there are all these things that happen. You have these really dramatic scenes, and then you get in a scene with him and I can't tell you how many times I would start cracking up. — Kyra Zagorsky

My norm for watching scary movies, what I love about it, is when they work and they scare me, which is not that often I'm afraid. The more you know the genre, your taste becomes a little more rarefied and you take a very particular route to the type of movies you like in the genre. But I still get scared. — Katie Holmes

Yes, it's vulnerable and scary to keep your love on toward someone who has become a perceived threat-you cannot guarantee what he or she is going to do. But you can guarantee your own choice. And you can always choose connection. — Danny Silk

[People of faith must] reassure them [atheists] that we share with them the core values of America, that our faith is not inconsistent with their freedom and our mission is not one of intolerance, but one of love.... I stand before you today as a witness to the goodness of God. For me, like you and like my running mate Al Gore, faith provided a foundation, order and purpose in my life. — Joe Lieberman

Satan is the ruler of humanity (John 14:30). The result is that lost mankind hates and rejects Jesus Christ:... And, since unconverted mankind hates Christ, it also hates those who love Him and follow Him. — R. L. Hymers, Jr.

The first thing you do is sit down with your wife and say something like this, Honey, I've made a terrible mistake. I've given you my role. I gave up leading this family. ... I'm not suggesting that you ask for your role back, I'm urging you to take it back ... Be sensitive. Listen. Treat the lady gently and lovingly. But lead! — Tony Evans

All we can do is politely ask aliens from suspect nations to leave ... while we sort the peace-loving immigrants from the murderous fanatics.... Muslim immigrants who agree to spy on the millions of Muslim citizens unaffected by the deportation order can stay. — Ann Coulter

We don't think much about how our love stories will affect the world, but they do. Children learn what's worth living for and what's worth dying for by the stories they watch us live. I want to teach our children how to get scary close, and more, how to be brave. I want to teach them that love is worth what it costs. — Donald Miller

My favourite vampires are all very scary indeed. So the idea of falling in love with one is just weird to me. — Justine Larbalestier

Most people settle for connection, because love's too scary. They don't want to lose that feeling, that super high is too crushing so they settle for the comfort of connection. — Tony Robbins

It’s scary to realize that the only thing holding our friends to us isn’t our performance, or our lovability, or their guilt, or their obligation. The only thing that will keep them calling, spending time with us, and putting up with us is love. And that’s the one thing we can’t control. — Henry Cloud

Shakespeare is all big themes, like the most amazing love, or the most scary war. — Sayings

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