Quotes About Phobia

It's so bizarre, I'm not scared of snakes or spiders. But I'm scared of butterflies. There is something eerie about them. Something weird!

I have a weird thing with knives. I don't like knives very much. Like when my parents are cooking in the kitchen and using knives to chop vegetables, I can't be in the same room. For whatever reason, knives just terrify me.

I guess my weirdest fear is accidentally ingesting a sharp object.

In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.

An astonishing portion of my life is built around trying to evade vomiting and preparing for the eventuality that I might.

I'm the world's worst dancer. I have dancephobia.

I don't like the dark. I really am afraid of the dark.

I am extremely scared of water, darkness and am claustrophobic.

I have a huge fear of birds, but I truly believe in facing your fears head-on, so, I now have two sparrows tattooed on the back of my arms.

I'm not scared of snakes, spiders, flying... nothing scares me apart from needles. I just hate them. Which is quite funny because I've had four knee operations, and I've got tattoos, so I've seen a few needles in my time.

Hitler has always had the capacity to reflect whatever phobia afflicts the person who stares at him

Some people are terrified of snakes. Some people are terrified about losing money.

The amygdala also helps mediate both innate and learned fear.18 The core of innate fear (aka a phobia) is that you don't have to learn by trial and error that something is aversive. For example, a rat born in a lab, who has interacted only with other rats and grad students, instinctually fears and avoids the smell of cats.

Most hatred is based on fear, one way or another.

That which I fear, I study.

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

Write about what you're afraid of.

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.

According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two! Does that sound right? That means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.

According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.

A recent survey stated that the average person's greatest fear is having to give a speech in public. Somehow this ranked even higher than death which was third on the list. So, you're telling me that at a funeral, most people would rather be the guy in the coffin than have to stand up and give a eulogy.

The neurotic preoccupied with his symptom is led to believe that his central task is one of confrontation with his particular obsession or phobia. In a sense his neurosis allows him to take control of his destiny—to transform the whole of life's meaning into the simplified meaning emanating from his self-created world.

Scott Fitzgerald was mortally afraid of lightning.

Fear plays a no less important role in the human psyche than all the other emotions. A psyche without fears would be crippled.