Love Is Terrifying Quotes

#1. Auditioning for something you already know and love is terrifying.

Emily Berrington

#2. You're the one person in my life who wants nothing but me and it's terrifying and awesome at the same time. Don't ever leave me. I love you. You're my heart.

Erin Watt

#3. I don't love horror movies with something surreal happening. That doesn't work for me. What's terrifying is something that could actually happen to me and what I would do. I don't know how to throw a punch, and I've never had to do it.

Katie Aselton

#4. They said that love was terrifying and tender, wild and sweet, and none of it made any sense.
But now I knew that every mad word was true.

Rosamund Hodge

#5. Though I guess if you love someone, the thought of losing their approval is probably twice as terrifying.

Riley Redgate

#6. 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

#7. The most necessary steps in one's journey in life are also often the most terrifying.

Graham Aitchison

#8. Fully to surrender to love can be terrifying. But it is the price life asks in exchange for the possibility of ecstasy.

Nathaniel Branden

#9. This, I think, is a little glimpse of what life could be like without my family. Home could be a place of laughter and love, a refuge. I'm filled with a terrifying weightlessness, like I've jumped off a cliff, but I know that if I don't look down, I'll be just fine.

Heather Demetrios

#10. Romantic love can be terrifying. We experience another human being as enormously important to us. So there is surrender - not a surrender to the other person so much as to our feeling for the other person. What is the obstacle? The possibility of loss.

Nathaniel Branden

#11. Our world is ... longing to see people whose God is big and holy and frightening and gentle and tender ... and ours; a God whose love frightens us into His strong and powerful arms where He longs to whisper those terrifying words, 'I love you.'

Mike Yaconelli

#12. Love is scary! Taking a vow to love someone through sickness and health, for richer for poorer, forsaking all others, until death do us part, is the most terrifying experience a person can have. Why pretend any differently?

Elin Hilderbrand

#13. I'll always defend the people I love even though I'm as terrifying as a baby penguin.

Niall Horan

#14. It's terrifying, that unconditional love you have for a child. I still wonder if she really came from me, from my womb. It's a miracle. I don't understand it. I live it very intensely.

Anne Parillaud

#15. I'm not a fighter, but I would love to be a boxer because I love the courage and toughness. I mean, there can be nothing more terrifying than walking into an arena and looking at Mike Tyson in the ring.

Mark McGrath

#16. Falling in love or just plain falling : they were both terrifying at any speed

Abigail Roux

#17. I love biographies. I'm especially into stuff about Hollywood in the '40s and '50s. I find it fascinating and terrifying.

Katie Findlay

#18. Just thinking about him made her smile, sent a cheerful little shiver up her spine. Love was terrifying and weird, and sometimes uncomfortable. But it was so fucking sweet

Stacia Kane

#19. People say that being in love is amazing. They lie. It's freaking terrifying.

Molly McAdams

#20. That," she says, then clears her throat. "That's a bit terrifying."
His lips twitch. "Isn't that a side effect of love?

Laura Kreitzer

#21. This is my philosophy on all life, not just when it comes to love. All the best things are terrifying, but that's why they're the best things. Nothing worth having comes easy. You have to be afraid to want it, afraid to lose it, afraid to try. If you feel that, then you know you're on to a winner.

Thomas S. Monson

#22. Strength is finding the courage to let another person in. Strength is opening your heart to him and exposing yourself in all vulnerabilities- No matter how terrifying that may be.

Scarlett Edwards

#23. Our kiss was electric and soft,
and tentative and certain,
terrifying and exactly right.
I felt the love rush from me to Gat and from Gat to me.
We were warm and shivering,
and young and ancient,
and alive.
I was thinking, It's true. We already love each other.
We already do.

E. Lockhart

#24. It was terrifying to realize life goes on without you.

Courtney Love

#25. But the purpose of stories was to take the ugly, terrifying truths with which one must live and turn them into brave and beautiful ideas one might love.

Mercedes Lackey

#26. 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

#27. At some point on the morning of the second day she came to a terrifying realisation. She had no idea how it had happened or how she was supposed to cope with it. She was in love for the first time in her life.

Stieg Larsson

#28. I was desperate for a kiss, but I was terrified to kiss him. There was nothing I wanted more, and that was the terrifying part.

Alexis Bass

#29. Tell someone you love them today, because life is short, but shout it at them in German, because life is also terrifying and confusing.

Anonymous

#30. Love is the most terrifying form of trust.

K.M. Golland

#31. I decided at that moment that we would find a way to be together. The future was terrifying, but we would face it together ... our pelts brushing,our tails twined. Our hearts in love,forever. -CrowfeatherXLeafpool. Secrets of the Clans pg.122

Erin Hunter

#32. Flanked by his personal guardsmen, Emperor Gevalen walked toward me, never letting go of me with his eyes. It was thrilling and terrifying all at once.

Julie B. Campbell

#33. It's the most terrifying day of your life, the day the first one is born. Your life, as you know it, is gone. Never to return. But they learn how to walk, and they learn how to talk, and you want to be with them. And they turn out to be the most delightful people you'll ever meet in your life.

Bill Murray

#34. It can be so terrifying to open yourself up to true love. That love can be with your mate, with your child, with yourself, because we are ultimately such vulnerable little creatures in this world.

Lauren Bowles

#35. Love in the flesh remained elusive. It drew yet frightened him. This was the late eighties, after all, the most terrifying days of the plague. Surrounded everywhere by insolent youth and beauty, Paul looked and lusted but didn't dare touch.

Jonathan Galassi

#36. Falling in love is a wonderfully terrifying sensation.

Steve Maraboli

#37. Manticores with love spells," Marjani said. "Well, that's awfully terrifying.

Cassandra Rose Clarke

#38. The first kiss can be as terrifying as the last.

Daina Chaviano

#39. A single smile from her could make his entire being burn. One touch from her hand and he was undone. It was terrifying to think of how much power this one person had over him. How one single gesture from her could affect him so profoundly. (Sin thinking about Kat)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#40. Schuyler put a gentle hand on Abbadon's feathered extensions, feeling the majestic power underneath their silky weight. She had been frightened once, to see him in this light, but now that she saw his terrifying face, she found it beautiful.

Melissa De La Cruz

#41. Fuck he was so in love. So in love that it was terrifying. In the type of love that if it was taken away, he knew he'd never be the same again. He

A.E. Via

#42. It was both terrifying and glorious in it's intensity. It was love.

Melissa Landers

#43. She was strange and beautiful and those were human qualities that I had never seen Weaved together before. She became terrifying to me, not because I feared who she was, but for the sake of love, I feared what she could do to me.

Christopher Poindexter

#44. There was one thing that stood like stone among the music and moonfroth of the evening's gaieties. It was stupid, it was terrifying, it was wonderful, but it had happened and I could do nothing about it. For better or worse, I was head over ears in love ...

Mary Stewart

#45. This thrilling, intense, cloud nine feeling was love. I loved Thomas. The realization was both terrifying and empowering.

Kelley R. Martin

#46. I feel like I've been in love, but I have stood aside from it over and over again in my life. It's all you want, but it's terrifying.

Adam Duritz

#47. It was terrifying to love someone who was forbidden to you. Terrifying to feel something you could never speak of, something that was horrible to almost everyone you knew, something that could destroy your life.

Cassandra Clare

#48. It was possible, wasn't it, that he loved her, and that in this time of terrifying opportunity he was willing to weaken himself before her in order to win her love.

Orson Scott Card

#49. It was the most terrifying part of being in love: that without a commitment to forever, separation was still possible.

Karen Kingsbury

#50. Actually, you said Love, for you,
is larger than the usual romantic love. It's like a religion. It's
terrifying. No one
will ever want to sleep with you.

Richard Siken

#51. That same intense, overpowering, and all-encompassing love that you feel for your family can also be utterly terrifying.

Mark Deklin

#52. A love as intense as the one we shared, one that had not dimmed through years of betrayal but had only grown, was terrifying. We had the power to destroy, to devastate and ruin, to lay the other to waste.

A.L. Jackson

#53. When the chips are down, you are alone, and loneliness can be terrifying. Fortunately, I've always had a chum I could call. And I love to be alone. It doesn't bother me one bit. I'm my own company.

Audrey Hepburn

#54. Kissing me with a violence that was terrifying and yet, somehow, the summit of all my tenderest dreams.

Mary Stewart

#55. The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.

C. G. Jung

#56. The Prisoner's Wife echoes Edwidge Danticat's Farming of the Bones in the urgency in which it reminds us of the possibility of love even amidst the ruins. This is a terrifying, heart-breaking and, ultimately, important book.

Junot Diaz

#57. It was a terrifying feeling. And if it was love, he wanted none of it.

Sarah MacLean

#58. His arm pulled her a little off balance, and paradoxically it steadied her at the same time. That was what Charles did to her heart, too. He knocked it off balance into what felt like the right position, a safe place that was still exciting, exhilarating, and terrifying.

Patricia Briggs

#59. Billy is a funny, cheeky, lovely boy and I love being with him. Parenthood is terrifying though. I can barely walk past a building without panicking that it's going to collapse on his head.

Rufus Sewell

#60. This was love, new and bright and terrifying

Cassandra Clare

#61. I love the stage. It's terrifying in a way that film and television is not. When you're about to go out, and you're adrenaline just gets out of control, and that can be really daunting.

Stephen Lang

#62. One of my heroes is a composer named James Bernard, and oh my God ... I can still listen to his music today and be stirred and moved by it. But I think that you fall in love with ... Well, again, when you're young, it really is more powerful. Much more terrifying.

John Carpenter

#63. Me being in love with a girl and wanting her to be with me, doing what I need to do to make her stay with me; it affects no one, yet it's terrifying to people and they think you're a monster.

Sara Quin

#64. He makes me feel out of control and out of my head. He is exhilarating and terrifying. I see and feel him everywhere, and I'm always grasping for equilibrium even when he's not there ... I feel like I'm always falling in love, falling and falling and falling.

Megan McCafferty

#65. From folk to tribal to Cab Calloway, Cole Porter, Gershwin to the Rolling Stones, whose first record was all covers, to country-western, bebop, blues, and even the referencing in classic hip hop to cliched love ballads of the '80s or whatever - that is kinda gone, and that's just terrifying to me.

Cat Power

#66. 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

#67. Its twice as terrifying, working with someone you love. A mistake could cost you everything. It makes what they do that much more ... impressive.
- Julian about ty & zane

Abigail Roux

#68. The vulnerability of opening your heart fully and deeply to another is terrifying, but at a point in my 50s, I realized that I had to step up to the plate.

Jane Fonda

#69. People did crazy things for love. And being responsible for someone else's feelings like that felt powerful and terrifying. As if I'd been given some delicate and fragile object to carry over rocky and uneven terrain with shaky hands.

Stacey Kade

#70. I love her. It's as simple and as terrifying as that.

Kristen Proby

#71. Love isn't really all that terrifying once you let go of your doubts.

Debbie Macomber

#72. Last night was what love is supposed to feel like, terrifying and beautiful and so close you're afraid you'll lose a piece of yourself, but you don't. You gain a piece of the person you love instead, a piece that makes you stronger and happier than you could have imagined possible.

Stacey Jay

#73. It was bizarre. Not at all like the soft and gentle flapping of butterflies' wings people spoke of- no, no, no. More like pterodactyls swooping and clipping her heart with every pass. Actually, maybe bizarre was the wrong word. Terrifying was more like it.

Victoria Parker

#74. I tend to be a lot more honest and transparent with employees than most bosses are. But I've had people tell me - even those who love working with me - that I'm terrifying, which is hard for me to imagine.

Stewart Butterfield

#75. You are in love with intelligence, until it frightens you. For your ideas are terrifying and your hearts are faint. Your acts of pity and cruelty are absurd, committed with no calm, as if they were irresistible. Finally, you fear blood more and more. Blood and time.

Paul Valery

#76. You are terrifying and strange and beautiful, someone not everyone knows how to love.

Warsan Shire

#77. Don't put your life on hold for someone, or you'll wake up at forty-two with an empty house and a terrifying sense of freedom and no energy or innocence left to enjoy it.

Leah Reader

#78. Save me, O you who love me; love me bravely.

Miklos Radnoti