“Love is a thing full of anxious fears.”

“Doesn't our knowledge of death make life more precious?'

What good is a preciousness based on fear and anxiety? It's an anxious quivering thing”

“Strangely, although the world is already full of fearful things, mortals seems always to hunt for new worries.”

“On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait,
And from your judgment must expect my fate.”

“Love is the easiest thing there is. It's the layers of doubt, fear, and expectation that make it complicated.”

“There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves. People are not, for example, terribly anxious to be equal (equal, after all, to what and to whom?) but they love the idea of being superior.”

“Sometimes I think there’s no such thing as falling in love. It’s just the fear of losing someone.”

“Those full of fear were the most dangerous of people.”

“People say that love is the best thing in the world not power. But they are wrong. Love is the opposite of power and that's why we fear it so much.”

“Full twenty times was Peter feared,
For once that Peter was respected.”