"No one can love a person he's afraid of," asserted Dorothy.

You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails.

If you cannot love yourself, you cannot love others and you cannot stand to see others loved.

I am, to be sure, afraid that if you knew me that you wouldn’t love me. But this must be faced…I fear it in any relationship. Thus I am perhaps afraid to reveal facts about things…or to say too much for fear if I make too much noise you’ll drift away, pull down the shade of your ivory tower…and after that. Afraid, I guess, that I’ll loose you…I keep losing people.

Maybe you’re desperate for love. Always have been in your life. But you’ve been distrustful of people. Is there anything about them that scares us, that’s dangerous, that’s going to hurt us? Because a lot of people are frightened to death of love.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3-parts dead.

Love, when you get fear in it, it’s not love any more. It’s hate.

Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

They fear love because it creates a world they can't control.

It is safer to be feared than loved

I’m afraid of love, because it involves things that are beyond our understanding; it sheds such a brilliant light, but the shadow it casts frightens me.

Because fear and ove can hardly co exist together,if we must chose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.