Top 30 Fear Of Abandonment Quotes
#1. They may lack confidence in their ability to leave a romantic relationship when and if necessary. Fear of abandonment eclipses all other matters, including their own happiness in a relationship.
Stan Tatkin
#2. Loving without judgment or fear of abandonment is. . . . the toughest activity known to mankind and I think with best friend that can be even more pronounced because you aren't my mom, we don't have kids together - but we do have matching tattoos.
Rebecca Traister
#3. My fear of abandonment is exceeded only by my terror of intimacy.
Ethlie Ann Vare
#5. Almost always, jealousy is rooted in some sort of fear: of abandonment, of being replaced, of losing the attention of someone you love, of being alone. Jealousy isn't really about the person you feel jealous of. It's about you: your feeling that you might lose something precious.
Franklin Veaux
#6. The need for control always comes from someone that has lost it.
Shannon L. Alder
#7. Properly understood, the marital sacrament is an encumbrance that paradoxically yields freedom. The wife is free to grow old and wrinkled without fear of divorce, while the husband is likewise free to become bald and potbellied without fear of his wife's abandonment. Covenants
Scott Hahn
#8. Sadly, in too many cases surrender is having been 'outrun' by fear rather than having 'run out' of heart.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#9. The realisation of where he was suddenly dawned on the youth in chains, who stopped abruptly, recoiling like a fugitive at the edge of a cliff, and swallowed noisily in the obscure silence.
Stanley Goldyn
#10. How many human beings anywhere, hold on to a relationship merely because it exists? This fear of loneliness, abandonment, or failure can, if we let it, hold any of us back from doing exactly what each of us needs to do to feel fulfilled.
Walter Inglis Anderson
#11. Those who choose to walk on love's path are well served if they have a guide. That guide can enable us to overcome fear if we trust that they will not lead us astray or abandon us along the way.
Bell Hooks
#12. Surrendering is intentionally laying down the power I possess. And have I considered that the power I lay down is often more powerful than that which I'm laying it down in front of? Therefore, I would be wise to recognize that surrender is less the absence of power and more the presence of fear.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#13. If I hazard a guess as to the most endemic, prevalent anxiety among human beings-including fear of death, abandonment, loneliness-nothing is more prevalent than the fear of one another.
R.D. Laing
#14. I had not said anything about what had happened the day before - about being scared down to my very bones when I thought they had left me. I don't know what came over me. Ever since my mother left us that April day, I suspected that everyone was going to leave, one by one.
Sharon Creech
#15. I lay in bed and watched moments break into phenomenal particles of panic and could actually see the divine crack of God's ass as he completely turned his back on me.
Arthur Nersesian
#16. Control doesn't validate love; it validates the nonexistence of trust and the painful unwillingness to accept the truth.
Shannon L. Alder
#17. To be Irish today is the abandonment of shame and the younger people are moving it out and they're moving the fear away. They're not afraid, they're adventurous.
Malachy McCourt
#18. Howard: Sometimes a betrayal can be so subtle that it clouds the whole thing.
Nita: It would have to be a real betrayal. Not like canceling an appointment. It would be like you'd end the relationship in the middle.
Howard: Why would I call it off?
Nita: I don't know!
Sarah E. Olson
#19. Many of us find it hard to set boundaries and defend them because we fear doing so will cause rejection or abandonment. We may avoid confrontations to make things easier. We may feel guilt if we say no or if we think we might hurt someone's feelings. We fear boundaries will keep us from being loved.
Adelyn Birch
#20. The capacity for fear and for happiness are the same, the unrestricted openness to experience amounting to self-abandonment in which the vanquished rediscovers himself.
Theodor Adorno
#21. You can be creative only when there is abandonment-which means, really, there is no sense of compulsion, no fear of not being, of not gaining, of not arriving. Then there is great austerity, simplicity, and with it there is love.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#22. Love often leads to healing, while fear and isolation breed illness. And our biggest fear is abandonment.
Candace Pert
#23. Neither of them knew what it was to be family, to have family, to make a family. They knew cruelty, abuse, abandonment. She wondered if that was why they had come together. They both understood what it was to have nothing, to know fear and hunger and despair- and both had remade themselves.
J.D. Robb
#24. I think there were times when I was so afraid of losing you that I forgot I even had you at all.
Ashly Lorenzana
#25. A generous heart is always open, always ready to receive our going and coming. In the midst of such love we need never fear abandonment. This is the most precious gift true love offers - the experience of knowing we always belong.
Bell Hooks
#26. I'm not one of those guys that has a great worldview. I kind of deal with terror and fear and isolation and abandonment.
David Bowie
#27. What will life be like without her? I am dreadfully sad she is leaving. What if she just disappears; gets tired of all this trouble at home? What if she leaves me too? How heavy is a dresser when you're the only one pushing it against the door? I feel truly on my own.
Mira Bartok
#28. I'm not used to people sticking around when things go bad," she said, by way of explanation.
Alexander Freed
#29. Far too often, it is at the moment where we finally stand on the very precipice of some great thing that we turn and abandon it, for it is at these seminal moments that fear wins and greatness dies. The beauty of Christmas is that God steps over precipices.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#30. Oh, that fear of his self-abandonment - far worse than my abandonment - how it goaded me! It was a barbed arrow-head in my breast; it tore me when I tried to extract it; it sickened me when remembrance thrust it farther in.
Charlotte Bronte
