Fear Of Flying Quotes

#1. You know I never used to be a bad flyer, but I did start to have a fear of flying after I shot a movie where I was terrorized on a plane. I made Wes Craven's 'Red Eye'. I don't think they're linked but it does make me pause and wonder if they are, so perhaps I will explore that in therapy some day.

Rachel McAdams

#2. I know people have very little control on an airplane, and that exacerbates the fear of flying. As you probably know, flying is a lot safer than driving. If you think of the thousands of take-offs and landings every day--and the miniscule amount of crashes--that has to put your mind at ease.

Wendy Sue Knecht

#3. I took a Fear of Flying class, and I always missed the class, because I was always flying.

Sara Blakely

#4. Fear paralyses you - fear of flying, fear of the future, fear of leaving a rubbish marriage, fear of public speaking, or whatever it is.

Annie Lennox

#5. I thought Erica Jong's Fear of Flying was one of the biggest pieces of crap that I've ever read in my life.

Helen Reddy

#6. If you have a fear of flying, don't. The data are very clear: If you have to travel someplace, the safest way is by airplane.

Peter Diamandis

#7. I try to get in quiet time and book time, but really, the only time I ever get that is when I'm on an airplane - I have a fear of flying, but I actually love flying because it's the only time I can sleep, and it's the only time I get to read.

Kesha

#8. As with most phobias, the fear of flying does make some sense, but if ever there was a fear worth quashing then this is it. After all, life is short, and there's a great big world to explore out there.

Beth Ditto

#9. I've had a lot of fear in my life, from fear of flying to fear of making a speech in front of a lot of people.

Chris Evert

#10. I don't think that I had any idea that 'Fear of Flying' would become a part of the culture. I had no idea that it would go all over the world and be published in Chinese and Serbo-Croat and so on.

Erica Jong

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

Billy Bob Thornton

#12. My father taught me to not fear anything. Having said that, much of my addiction to alcohol and drugs was tied to fear: fear of flying, fear of talking to women, etc. I conquered those fears years ago.

Derek Sanderson

#13. Father has a fear of flying since that aeroplane crashed into his bedroom.

Jonathan Dunne

#14. I read a lot of those Single Girl in New York books, like "Fear of Flying," where you could sort of put yourself, through transference, into the Jewish Girl in New York situation.

Charles Busch

#15. Don't think about the possibilities of failing. Never forget to think about the possibilities of flying.

Debasish Mridha

#16. They know how to die-a little way from the branch to the earth, a little fear of mingling with common dust and yet they go down gracefully-a fail that seems like flying!

Edmond Rostand

#17. Oh, gods. Not the flying!"
"I heard you mounted my sister well enough."
"I want you never to make that statement again.

G.A. Aiken

#18. My greatest fear is flying. And I do a lot of flying, so that's a bummer.

Kylie Bax

#19. Flying to me isn't scary, it's just incredibly boring. And I guess I have a fear of boredom, so in that regard, I'm afraid to fly.

Chuck Klosterman

#20. At best, I consider flying an unavoidable necessity, a time to resurrect forgotten prayers and contemplate the end of all joy in a twisted howling heap of machinery; at worst, I rank it right up there with psychotic episodes and torture at the hands of malevolent strangers.

T.C. Boyle

#21. Cyrano: The leaves
Roxane: What color
Perfect Venetian red! Look at them fall.
Cyrano: Yes
they know how to die. A little way
From the branch to the earth, a little fear
Of mingling with the common dust
and yet
They go down gracefully
a fall that seems
Like flying!

Edmond Rostand

#22. I do have a bit of a fear of heights. But I don't get scared of heights when I am flying a plane.

David Mackay

#23. Did I want to dance? Of course I did and that's not all.

Erica Jong

#24. The two events were probably unrelated, but both jolted Dave the way a sudden air pocket reminds nervous passengers that they're soaring above the clouds in a pressurized metal tube.

Dan Sofer

#25. I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit.

Chuck Yeager

#26. He felt like a baked bean in a can, soaring through the air on a downward turn of a parabolic arc...

A. Ashley Straker

#27. The weakest of my people does not fear death. It is the Bent One, the lord of your world, who wastes your lives and befouls them with flying from what you know will overtake you in the end. If you were the subjects of Maleldil you would have peace. p. 140

C.S. Lewis

#28. I started flying because I had a fear of it early on. I figured if I learned to fly, I would understand better what was happening and started taking lessons in the late 1950's, once I had made some money on tour.

Arnold Palmer

#29. I hate being frightened of things. I'm not someone who can say: "Oh, I'm scared of flying, I won't fly." Fear seems to creep over every part of your life so if there's something I identify as frightening to me I want to tackle it.

Hugh Jackman

#30. I'm not afraid of flying; I just fear I'm going to die. I think I'm - vulnerable. I admit it. I don't fly. I got claustrophobia. I don't go in high buildings. I don't do those things. I'm just myself, whatever that is.

John Madden

#31. Take down the walls.
Otherwise you must live closely, in fear, building barricades against the unknown, saying prayers against the darkness, speaking verse of terror and tightness.
Otherwise you may never know hell, but you will not find heaven, either. You will not know fresh air and flying.

Lauren Oliver

#32. Scared of flying?"
"Nope"
"Heights?"
"Nope"
The plane shook again, and I closed my eyes, trying to take deep breaths.
"What is it then?"
"I have a fear of falling from heights.

Laura Kreitzer

#33. With the earth firmly beneath our feet, we can approach what attracts us, and withdraw from what unnerves us. If there is real danger, we can run. Mobility means security, both physically and emotionally. Flying takes away our most basic way of regulating feelings.

Capt Tom Bunn LCSW