Quotes About Phobia

I can't swim and I'm terrified of drowning, but I still love being by water - just not in it.

my love of water ... is mingled with and almost indistinguishable from a fear of water (I can float in a vertical position - I enter a fugue state - but I cannot bear to bury my face in water).

Hospitals scare him for some reason.

Place a loaded pistol in a playpen and the babies will play with it just like any other toy, giggle, and perhaps even place the gun in their mouth. In contrast, put a plastic snake into the playpen; the babies will cower in fear. Show a person of any age a snake —or even a picture of one —and you will elicit a dramatic response, including sweaty skin and an increased heart rate. It doesn't matter whether the person is in America, Europe, Japan, Australia, or Argentina

You can't reason with a nightmare

Tiffany was not afraid of heights at all.  She could walk past tall trees without batting an eyelid.  Looking up at huge towering mountains didn't bother her a bit. What she was afraid of, although she hadn't realized it up until this point, was depths.

I just don't like getting scared, like when people hide and jump out of places. That totally freaks me out. I'm not a fan of it.

Actually, I don't hate cats, I'm just kind of afraid of them.

I'm afraid of the dark. I'm not kidding.

Hey, we all have our fear. Mine is bugs and lobsters!

The enemy of development is this pain phobia - the unwillingness to do a tiny bit of suffering.

One school of thought says that the best way to handle an issue like this is exposure therapy, Mad Rogan said. For example, if you're terrified of snakes, repeated handling of them will cure it. Aha. I'm not handling your snake.

I'm a rat,'' Robert said. ''I'm not going into a reptile's mouth.'' Oh boy. Fine time to develop phobias

The fear of public speaking is a primal fear. You can train your body to not be crazy when you're doing it, but it truly is a primal fear.

I've never been scared of snakes. I'm really, truly arachnophobic - I hate spiders - but snakes have never freaked me out. I think they're really beautiful.

I was terrified of LSD. I don't want to get arrested.

In my opinion, phobia indoctrination is the single most powerful technique for keeping people dependent and obedient. I have encountered numerous individuals who had long ago stopped believing in the leader and the doctrine, but were unable to walk away. They were psychologically paralyzed with indoctrinated fears which often functioned subconsciously.

A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths.

I'm not afraid of heights, just widths.

I'm not afraid of heights, I'm afraid of widths.

I'm very much afraid of being mad - that's my one fear.

Some people have a phobia of midgets. They're, like, scared of them. I have the opposite - I see them, and I want to hold them down, cuddle them, be like, 'Come here, you little nugget. Who's your mommy now?' So cute!

I definitely am afraid of the dark. Somehow, in my mind I can always come up with some horrific stuff to worry about.

One or more of the basic fears.