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Quotes About Claustrophobia

There are still too many people out there who are claustrophobic. On easyCruise, we are going to open up as many cabins as we can.
~ Stelios Haji-Ioannou
Even in the best of times, life aboard a seventeenth-century privateering ship was a challenging and claustrophobic experience. The fact that a community of a hundred or more people could survive on the open seas for months at a time, in a vessel with dimensions not much larger than a tennis court, should go down as one of the great achievements in our long history of creating life-sustaining habitats in fundamentally inhospitable environments.
~ Steven Johnson
Prospect Park, Sunday afternoon. To feel claustrophobia even in "nature.
~ Eugene Thacker
It's something I've enjoyed since being a kid, the fantasy of it, the imagining I'm someone other than who I am. I've always felt claustrophobic in one sense of identity. If anything, I've had to work to develop a sense of my own identity. I used to really hate it when people defined me.
~ Mark Rylance
My claustrophobia from San Francisco begins to vanish—that cheerful shipshape vitality of the north violates my spirit and I long for vast sprawls, smog, and luke nights: L.A. It is where I work best, where I can live, oblivious to physical reality.
~ Eve Babitz
was squeezed between two large Special Ops officers in the back of a black SUV. It was seven a.m.
~ Michael Connelly
Women want everything of a lover. And too often I would sink below the surface. So armies disappear under sand. And there was her fear of her husband, her belief in her honour, my old desire for self-sufficiency, my disappearances, her suspicions of me, my disbelief that she loved me. The paranoia and claustrophobia of hidden love.
~ Michael Ondaatje
I would find the words to tell him how I was so scared, as if I were being stuffed farther and farther into a black, airless sack with no way out.
~ Sylvia Plath
Yes, that is what a claustrophobic world can cause: infections spread faster in confined space.
~ Tabish Khair
Now, I had been frightened on several different occasions in my life. The most frightening of these involved an elevator and a mime.
~ Brandon Sanderson
That's a very scary thing to think about, being trapped in a coffin.
~ Alexandra Daddario
In a certain way, I believe 'Trapped' is far more accessible than 'Lootera.' What makes it accessible is that it can happen to anyone. We all have a fear of getting trapped in a certain place or being locked out of our houses.
~ Vikramaditya Motwane
Every door and hallway reverberated with the nerve-stabbing whine of high-speed dental drills; soon Stranahan's molars started to throb, and he began to feel claustrophobic.
~ Carl Hiaasen
Se a claustrofobia do espírito fora a doença dos vitorianos, em troca, era, agora, a agorafobia do espírito o tormento que viria a atazanar os seus descendentes.
~ Burgo Partridge
Bond found this irksome. He disliked being cosseted. It gave him claustrophobia.
~ Ian Fleming
These are such First World problems, but there's a certain claustrophobia to New York. You don't escape in the East Village, but it at least feels full of camaraderie and youth - or full of camaraderie and youth in an East Village that is as full of Chase banks and Starbucks as the Upper West Side, or anywhere else in Manhattan.
~ Timothee Chalamet
Hadrian slapped him on the back. "I'm liking you more and more, Buck. A claustrophobic engineer who's entirely devoid of curiosity trapped aboard a spaceship in the midst of eternal darkness
~ Steven Erikson
Cole chuckled, saying, "Fear of spiders is arachnophobia, and fear of tight spaces is claustrophobia, but fear of Ali Bell is just called logic.
~ Gena Showalter
If you're born in a cubicle and grow up in a corridor, and work in a cell, and vacation in a crowded sun-room, then coming up into the open with nothing but sky over you might just give you a nervous breakdown.
~ Isaac Asimov
Empezó a ahogarse de miedo y claustrofobia, como le ocurría en la infancia, cuando se escondía en su improvisada carpa para escapar de los inmensos peligros del mundo, de la contundente presencia de los humanos, de los olores opresivos y los sonidos atronadores.
~ Isabel Allende
I have a fear of tubes and tunnels. Going through any tunnel causes me great anxiety.
~ Tyler Perry
I don't know if it's irrational, and I would never say this before, but I think I'm a little bit agoraphobic when I'm in huge crowds of people. I mean, it's claustrophobic, probably - small spaces and large groups of people, anxiety rises for me.
~ Taylor Hanson
I have a horror of being in confined spaces.
~ Hayley Mills
Sharks have a deadly form of claustrophobia. It's not so much fear of enclosed spaces as it is inability to exist in them. No one knows why. Some say it's the metal in aquariums that throws their equilibrium off. But whatever it is, big sharks don't last long in captivity
~ Neal Shusterman