"The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.“

-Cyril Connolly

posted in Fear

Cyril Connolly quote on Fear: "The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married." - Aesthetic Wallpaper & Wisdom

Other Quotes by Cyril Connolly

Discover more inspiring quotes by Cyril Connolly

"As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers."

-Cyril Connolly

"The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore."

-Cyril Connolly

SuccessView Quote

"Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear."

-Cyril Connolly

"Hate is the consequence of fear we fear something before we hate it a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise."

-Cyril Connolly

"In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female."

-Cyril Connolly

"We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving."

-Cyril Connolly

Same Category

More quotes in this category

"A line from one of my 1997 columns - 'Do one thing every day that scares you' - is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I don't believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing."

-Mary Schmich

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us."

-Marianne Williamson

"In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation."

-Simone de Beauvoir

"Writing is a form of therapy sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation."

-Graham Greene

"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."

-Marcus Aurelius

"Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson