Quotes About Phobia

I have this terrible fear of fractions, Christina told him. ... Miss Schuyler thinks she can conquer it. Also a fear of running out of popcorn. Nothing could be worse than going to a movie and they don't have any popcorn, you know?

Lizzy hated mice with a passion. A spider, she could handle. A snake, she could kill with a hoe or a pistol. But a damn mouse was only slightly smaller than a full-grown gorilla and it roared like a lion.

The fear of school is the worst fear there is. Most people are ruined by it. If not in childhood, then later on. It's still possible to die from fear of school at sixty.

We begin to worry about worry and fear fear itself. We panic and then panic that we might, once again, experience panic.

There is only one universal passion fear.

Repeated exposure to fear-inducing stimuli creates familiarity, which in turn greatly reduces anxiety.

Everything scares me. I'm very easily frightened. But the thing that scares me most is zombies. I really, really don't like zombies.

Anxiety is fear of one's self.

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

I have a fear of tubes and tunnels. Going through any tunnel causes me great anxiety.

I don't like to fly. I've never been a good flyer. I have a lot of friends that have permanent nail marks in their arms... The moaning that comes from me when there is turbulence. It's awkward for everyone around.

I had a lot of Barbies growing up, and a lot of porcelain dolls, but I was scared of them. I was so scared of them, I would try to turn their head away and would make my mom take them out of my room.

I do get in the water, but I was ruined by 'Jaws' 'cause I saw it when I was 13. Before that, I used to get in the water everywhere and never thought twice about it. After watching 'Jaws,' I was scared of the water. I have Steven Spielberg to thank for giving me another phobia.

Everybody's afraid of something.

Sometimes fear of a thing is worse than the thing itself.

He doesn't like to sleep when it's dark out.

I'm afraid of everything. But maybe when you're afraid of everything, it sort of seems like you're scared of nothing.

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.

I have a horror of being in confined spaces.

I've always been scared of the dark and aliens and monsters and things like that.

People are so phobic and crazed about this word 'commitment.' It's weird. Everyone has taken this word to a new height of morality.

We fear that which we cannot see.

I have a small phobia about being alone with women," he said smoothly. "So I always come with him," Patricia said. "Always." "Ah." Dear God, where do You hide the normal people? Love, Emmaline

I'm not about to go out and buy a snake for a pet. I mean, I may have faced a few fears but I'm not insane.