Quotes About Phobia

I could worry that I'm going to bleed to death, you know, from cutting my finger on a sandwich packet, you know, if I sort of open a sandwich.

Although enlightened people know that an extreme phobia wasn't a form of madness, hey could not help but regard it as odd.

Who is more foolish—the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light? —MAURICE FREEHILL

I'm really scared of small dogs, dogs in general I guess.

I have really bad anxiety and OCD. I get afraid of everyone I know dying.

What you fear most of all is —fear. Very wise...

cherophobia (chero is the Greek word for "rejoice").

though I was afraid of many things, the thing I feared most mortally was being afraid. I

He stopped in the hallway to recover his composure, and explained that he had been suffering from this phobia far over a year. He was going to a psychiatrist, he said. I couldn't see that it had done him any good.

When I was a child I was afraid of ghosts. As I grew up I realized people are more scary.

I am sick of death and worst of all this sickness feeds on itself, the more afraid I am the more I am afraid the more I flee the more I am afraid the more I am haunted.

Everyone creates what he fears.

My father had a lifelong terror, phobia whatever, about hospitals. Makes a lot of sense in hindsight. He was so scared of doctors, he passed that on to me. That's what parents exist for: to pass their phobias on generation to generation.

Sustained fear experienced in many different situations becomes anxiety.

Young John had always dreaded certain particular mental images, and the worst of all among these was the image of something different from the male organ of generation being thrust into a female's womb. Another was the image of a fiery rod being thrust into a man's anus.

Misophonia n. Irrational rage and terror caused by the sound of people eating.

If cats don't encounter people by the time they're 10 weeks old, they will always be scared of them.

horses were afraid of only two things: things that moved and things that didn't.

Arachnophobia," Stan repeated, finally raising his head. "Arachnids induce fear and panic in a large number of people. The theory is that they are so unworldly, so unlike any normal creature, that it induces an automatic 'other' response in many humans. It's been studied because of the possibility that there would be a similar response on the part of anyone encountering aliens.

I didn't respond to that. I'm not scared of heights. I'm just scared of falling from heights.

My number one fear is heights. Well, not so much the heights but the falling from heights. Actually the falling isn't that bad (I have a strong heart), it's the sudden stops that are painful. Believe me — I experienced it once.

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

I was a postman one Christmas and I developed a morbid fear of dogs.

My biggest fear? My biggest fear would be turning into an inanimate object.