George Eliot Quotes

My nightmares are usually about losing you. I'm okay once I realize you're here.

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.

I had never thought I could love another person this much. I also never thought I’d live in such fear of losing another person. Was this how everyone in love felt? Did they all cling tightly to their beloved and wake up terrified in the middle of the night, afraid of being alone? Was that an inevitable way of life when you loved so deeply? Or was it just those of us who walked on a precipice who lived in such panic?

Don't walk out of here. I can't lose you.

There's always a threat surrounding the things you love

If your love didn't always contain the possibility of loss, it would be very different from human love as we know it.

I'm not afraid of the world. I'm afraid of a world without you.

To get a woman, you have to be willing to risk losing her.

I do have a sense of displacement as constant instability - the uninterrupted existence of everything that I love and care about is not guaranteed at all. I wait for catastrophes.

I worry about the many things that could happen to the people I love.

The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.

Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing.

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.

You take care of the people you love, but it’s true, too, that you take care of the things you own.

Though surely to avoid attachments for fear of loss is to avoid life.

I'm always fearful of something happening to people I love. That doesn't go away.

We are afraid of losing what we have.

If we're not open to losing, we're not open to loving.

I almost can’t believe I’m going to make myself vulnerable to him again. But what is love but the most extreme and exquisite form of risk perception? I know that relationships don’t last. And yet, with him, the risk of not being with him is much worse than any other hurt I can imagine.

Tris.” I keep staring. “Tris.” I finally look at him. “I just don’t want to lose you.

His [Elijah] heart was beginning to give signs of alarm; he was enjoying being at this woman's side. Love could be a more frightening experience than standing before Ahab's soldier with an arrow aimed at his heart; if the arrow had struck him, he would be dead -and the rest was up to God. But if love struck him, he alone would have to take responsibility for the consequences.

If I write something, I fear it will happen, and if I love too much, I fear I will lose that person; nevertheless, I cannot stop writing or loving.

Paines to get, care to keep, feare to lose.

So let's hear another one of your irrational fears. Mia grasped me by the arms and pulled herself in to my chest, like she was burrowing her body into mine. "I'm scared of losing you," she said in the faintest of voices." I pushed her away so I could see her face and kissed the top of her forehead. "I said 'irrational' fears. Because that's not gonna happen.

I get a little scared of words like maturity.