But, commonly, men are as much afraid of love as of hate.
If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid.
I think Americans are terrified of feeling anything. I never met a people more infantile in my life.
To feel is perhaps the most terrifying thing in this society.
A lot of people... are afraid of pictures which have visible emotions in them. They feel calmer in front of pictures which are placid.
The things that are really out of control, and scary, are emotions - of people around you, that are unpredictable, or those in yourself which are unpredictable.
I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.
She could not read a book for fear of the feelings she might find in it.
What often seemed like meanness or coldness was really fear of emotions and intimacy.
