Quotes About Phobia

I've become increasingly agoraphobic.

As with most phobias, the fear of flying does make some sense, but if ever there was a fear worth quashing then this is it. After all, life is short, and there's a great big world to explore out there.

I am shit scared. Shit scared of almost everything.

I have a terrible, terrible fear of knives. I only buy food that I don't need to cut... I haven't cut my food in years! Like, I won't even touch a plastic knife or anything sharp. And if I'm in a kitchen and somebody picks up a knife, I leave.

Anyway, I collapsed in France in the middle of a tour. I hadn't been eating properly, I was getting very phobic about audiences, and I collapsed in pure fright.

Denial is an irrational dismissal of danger. Phobia is an irrational fear of one.

I was the first one to come up with a workable pitch: a vaccine, a real vaccine for rabies. Thank God there is no cure for rabies. A cure would make people buy it only if they thought they were infected. But a vaccine! That's preventative! People will keep taking that as long as they're afraid it's out there!

Phobic fear is not a solution to the problem of sexual exploitation or rape. It is a symptom.

Under the influence of great fear, almost everybody becomes superstitious.

I have this phobia: I don't like mirrors. And I don't watch myself on television. If anything comes on, I make them shut it off, or I leave the room.

Sometimes it's said that psychiatrists are doctors who are frightened by the sight of blood. I might have fallen into that category.

I don't care how small or big they are, insects freak me out.

Of course, there are things I'm afraid of, but I'm not afraid of insects.

I hate bridges. I'm always very insecure on bridges.

I don't have a fear of flying I have a fear of crashing.

When I was a kid, I had a period in my life when I was eight or nine when I was so scared of dying that I wouldn't go out of our house for a whole year. I refused to step out of the door because I thought something would happen. I had all these compulsive thoughts or whatever, and my head was really messed up.

Well, I'm not good with sliminess. I hate the thought of creatures that have slime on them or creatures that leave a slimy trail. At home, the sight of a slug can bring up my breakfast.

Each person bears a fear which is special to him. One man fears a close space and another man fears drowning; each laughs at the other and calls him stupid. Thus fear is only a preference, to be counted the same as the preference for one woman or another, or mutton for pig, or cabbage for onion.

R. D. Laing once said there are three things human beings are afraid of: death, other people, and their own minds.

D. Laing once said there are three things human beings are afraid of: death, other people, and their own minds. Put me down as two for three.

I'm also taking singing classes as well, not that I ever plan to sing in public in my entire life. I actually have a phobia of singing, so I decided to take some singing lessons to help me get away from the phobia.

I have a sister who is technophobic; she doesn't even use a computer.

I've never been ice skating, ever. I'm traumatized by the idea of it.

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