Love can be as thrilling as it is terrifying. For many, the idea of opening their heart feels like stepping into the unknown. These quotes capture that intense mixture of longing and fear, making them resonate deeply with anyone who’s ever been scared to love.
Whether you’ve faced heartbreak or just fear the risk, these words bring comfort. They remind us that it’s okay to be afraid, and that love, despite its uncertainties, is worth the leap.
Quotes on Fear of Falling in Love
“To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure. But risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.”
“I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me; all day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.”
“Sometimes it’s better to be alone. Nobody can hurt you.”
“The heart is the toughest part of the body. Tenderness is in the hands.”
“It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”
“I don’t think anyone can fall in love for fear of it.”
“Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.”
“I’m scared of the unknown, of letting someone in, and of breaking down walls.”
“Fear of love is a fear of life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.”
“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
“Bravely to fall in love, while still fearing the fall.”
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
“Love does not dominate; it cultivates.”
“I fear not the fall, but the crash. Not the failure, but the scars of a broken heart.”
“If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.”
“No one ever fell in love without being a little bit brave.”
“The fear of falling in love is the fear of losing oneself.”
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”
“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
“He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.”
“Fear has two meanings: Forget Everything And Run or Face Everything And Rise. The choice is yours.”
“It is only in the unknown, the uncertain, that we truly find love.”
“The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.”
“To live without loving is to not really live at all.”
“I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.”
Quotes on the Anxiety of Love
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken.”
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”
“The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief. But the pain of grief is only a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love.”
“You can’t blame gravity for falling in love, but you can surely blame it for the crash landing.”
“We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.”
“Love’s a battlefield, and sometimes, anxiety is the general.”
“In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.”
“Love is a trembling happiness.”
“It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all, but that doesn’t make the loss any less terrifying.”
“Sometimes, the fear of love is worse than the fear of the dark; because, unlike the dark, love can truly break you.”
“The greatest fear in love is the fear of never being truly seen.”
“The fear of rejection is often stronger than the desire to even try.”
“For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love.”
“The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.”
“I’m scared to love, because I don’t want to feel that heart-wrenching ache of a goodbye.”
“To love and be loved in return is to face the kind of vulnerability that scares us most.”
“Fear and love are two sides of the same coin. You can’t face one without encountering the other.”
“If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy loving.”
“Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
“The one who loves least controls the relationship; and that fear alone is enough to make lovers tremble.”
“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”
“The heart was made to be broken; fear is just its protector.”
“There is no terror in love; but perfect love drives out fear.”
“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.”
Healing Quotes for Love Fear
“Love is not something you protect, it is something you risk.”
“The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being.”
“Do not let the shadows of your past darken the doorstep of your future. Forgive and forget.”
“You must always overcome your fear of loving, for in its purity, love is the essence of life itself.”
“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”
“Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.”
“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.”
“Doubt thou the stars are fire, doubt that the sun doth move; doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love.”
“When we deny love out of fear, we deny our own potential for greatness.”
“Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.”
“Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth.”
“Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.”
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
“Don’t let your fear of what could happen make nothing happen.”
“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
“Perfect love casts out fear.”
“You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.”
“It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
“To love at all is to be vulnerable.”
“You can’t let fear dictate your decisions. Love may hurt, but it’s also our greatest healer.”
“Love is the bridge between you and everything.”
“Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.”
“Fear makes strangers of people who would otherwise be friends.”
Relationship Caution Quotes
“Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.”
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken.”
“Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned.”
“The course of true love never did run smooth.”
“It is a risk to love. What if it doesn’t work out? Ah, but what if it does.”
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”
“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”
“We loved with a love that was more than love.”
“The heart was made to be broken.”
“Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; Where little fears grow great, great love grows there.”
“Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it.”
“The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.”
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
“There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.”
“One is never wounded by the love one gives, only by the love one expects.”
“Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.”
“To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return.”
“It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”
“Love is an endless act of forgiveness. Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.”
“Love is a game that two can play and both win.”
“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
“Don’t brood. Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever.”
“Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.”
“Love can be a dangerous thing. It can make us move mountains…but it can also make us fall.”
Overcoming Love Phobia Quotes
“To love at all is to be vulnerable.”
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.”
“Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.”
“Don’t be afraid of your fears. They’re not there to scare you. They’re there to let you know that something is worth it.”
“You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.”
“Love isn’t something you find. Love is something that finds you.”
“The only way to get rid of the fear of doing something is to go out and do it.”
“we only regret the chances we didn’t take.”
“If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.”
“True love is not the absence of fear; it is the courage to face the fear together.”
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
“Fall in love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.”
“Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more.”
“Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.”
“To love someone fiercely, to believe in something with your whole heart, to celebrate a fleeting moment in time, to fully engage in a life that doesn’t come with guarantees—these are risks that involve vulnerability and often pain. But, I’m learning that recognizing and leaning into the discomfort of vulnerability teaches us how to live with joy, gratitude, and grace.”
“Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.”
“Every time we choose courage, we make everyone around us a little better and the world a little braver.”
“The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.”
“He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.”
“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
“Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.”
“To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.”
“The course of true love never did run smooth.”
“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”
“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
“To love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.”
“Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears.”
“No one can ever know if it’s the right love, the right time, or the right person; love is always a leap of faith.”
“Love is an endless act of forgiveness. Forgiveness is me giving up the right to hurt you for hurting me.”
“It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.”
“We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.”
“The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.”
“Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another.”
“we only regret the chances we didn’t take, relationships we were afraid to have, and the decisions we waited too long to make.”
“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
“Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.”
“The biggest coward of a man is to awaken the love of a woman without the intention of loving her.”
“The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it.”
“Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear.”
“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”
“Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.”
“Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.”
“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”
“To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.”
Summing Up
Love can be a scary thing, full of unknowns and vulnerability. The quotes gathered in this list reflect those fears and hesitations that many people experience. They offer comfort and understanding, reminding us that we’re not alone in feeling uncertain about love.
Whether you’re struggling to open your heart or simply want to reflect on past experiences, these quotes provide a gentle reminder that fear is a normal part of life. Let these words help you navigate your feelings and remind you that it’s okay to be scared while still holding hope for love.
