Quotes About Phobia

Pixiophobia: a fear of Pixies. I made this up, but believe me it should be a word because it sure is a legitimate fear.

Then he smiles at me and my heart starts beating harder, which I'm ashamed to admit, but it's true. Hearts betray you like that. This is why it's perfectly acceptable to be cardiophobic, afraid of hearts.

I have a very bad relationship with mice.

From Pastor Malthus to the Club of Rome's Limits to Growth; from hysteria over DDT, PCBs, and natural gas "fracking"; to continuing bouts of chemo-phobia and population panic; the achievements of capitalism have suffered a long series of detractions. The factitious and febrile campaign against global warming is only the latest binge of self-abuse among the children of prosperity.

I need to sleep, but fear to dream.

The roots of homophobia are fear. Fear and more fear.

The number-one fear in life is public speaking, and the number-two fear is death. This means that if you go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than giving the eulogy.

Fear breeds fear.

In time we hate that which we often fear. —William Shakespeare

I'm terrified of mice or any type of rodent.

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

I don't walk under a ladder, or open an umbrella in a room. I have always been superstitious.

There comes a stage at which a man would rather die cleanly by a bullet than by the unknown terror of the phantom in the forest.

I'm amazed this guy manages to get out of bed in the morning without working himself into a panic attack over the chance that he might trip on the bath mat and stab himself through the eye socket with his toothbrush and be left with a permanent twitch that'll ruin his chances of landing an airplane safely if the pilot has a heart attack and doom hundreds to a fiery death.

I was never afraid of anything in the world except the dentist.

Public speaking, for me, or speaking even in front of a handful of people is my greatest fear.

I hated speaking in public. I would miss school just so I wouldn't have to do it.

The fear of vomiting, which for me is one of the most original and most acute of my fears, is actually fairly common. Emetophobia, it's called, and by some estimates, it's the fifth most common specific phobia.

I spent my entire life being afraid. I was afraid of everything - height, flights - I had no idea why.

If I see a spider in my room, I gotta sleep on the couch for, like, two days.

I freak out when I see a spider. I was doing an interview once, and there was this really big, furry spider crawling up the tripod, and I was like, 'I can't do this!'

I turn into a crying, hysterical maniac when I see a spider. It's pathetic.

I can't even handle a spider in my bathtub. I'm scared of the dark, and I've got ultimate, epic bug phobia.

I don't handle creepy crawlers well. I had a spider problem at a house in Australia, and one of my female friends had to come rescue me from it.