Top 76 My Phobia Quotes
#2. 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
#3. I might have made a tactical error not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that didn't pay off.
Warren Zevon
#4. You sure have a lot of piercings for a guy with a needle phobia."
"I am the master of my fears
Victoria Schwab
#6. 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.
Scott Stossel
#7. 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.
Edmund White
#8. Civilization is human rights, it is the path of setting man free from men, phobia, to survive it, we must cultivate the science of human relationships.
Audrey Hepburn
#10. 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.
Jackie Kay
#11. I hate the word homophobia. It's not a phobia. You are not scared. You are an asshole,
Morgan Freeman
#13. There's a vast encyclopedia of fears and phobias, and pretty much any object, experience, situation you can think of, there is someone who has a phobia of it.
Scott Stossel
#14. Most people don't know that I have a huge phobia of bugs. It's gotten worse and worse over the years, but I just can't stand them! Even thinking about bugs makes me queasy.
Kelli Berglund
#15. Let me tell you what I want,' he said fiercely. 'For a start, I want you. I told you that, but perhaps I didn't make myself clear. I want the whole package, hang-ups, fears and phobias, as well as the good parts.
Joanna Mansell
#16. I stared at him. 'You're scared of bunnies?' 'Blah-hah-hah! They're big bullies. Always stealing celery from defenceless satyrs!' Thalia coughed. 'What?' Grover demanded. 'We'll have to work on your bunny phobia later,' I said. 'Here they come.' The
Rick Riordan
#17. I finally overcame my phobia, and now I approach flying with a sort of studied boredom - a learned habit, thanks to my learn-to-fly-calmly training - but like all former flying phobics, I retain a weird and feverish fascination with aviation news, especially bad news.
Susan Orlean
#18. So what the hell's wrong with me?" Nyx eased off the marble slab.
"Besides your deviant moral flexibility and severe phobia of emotional commitment?" Yahfia asked.
"I consider those virtues," Nyx said.
Kameron Hurley
#19. Uh, I have to warn you that I have an eye phobia. My parents had to hold me down to get drops in my eyes when I had pinkeye as a child
Colleen Houck
#20. A lot of my friends who grew up in Manhattan have a strange phobia about Brooklyn. It's big and scary and they get lost.
Moby
#21. She closes my door behind her and all the petty stresses of life reappear, eager to make up for lost time. I've developed a phobia of that door closing for the last time, of losing her in any way or of being lost.
Thomm Quackenbush
#22. Sometimes a girl needs to be told what a guy feels, rather than trying to decipher the signs.
Hilary Grossman
#23. I would gladly do it but I am suffering from social phobia. I cannot manage being in a crowd of people.
Elfriede Jelinek
#24. I avoid people who I actually like. I suppose that's a phobia but also a habit.
Morrissey
#25. I still have a fear of theater. I don't know if I will manage that. I used to do it. I developed a bit of a phobia. It's not a real phobia. I can go in and watch.
Laura Fraser
#26. I have a massive phobia for schedules and calendars. I need people to tell me where I need to be. I can't bear to see it in black and white. I think it's a fear of being pinned down.
Sam Taylor-Wood
#27. I don't like dirt. Cleanliness is high on my agenda, but I don't have a phobia of dirt. I'm just not keen on it. I don't really like dirty people or houses or smelly things.
Keeley Hawes
#29. I love heights. I love speed. I'm on the verge of being a pyromaniac. Maybe my phobia is boredom.
Erin Wasson
#30. If this was a book written by men who were inspired by the Holy Spirit, then its admonitions about sin were not applied cultural phobia.
Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
#31. He wasn't a carrier of commitment-phobia or other notable boy diseases and he used expensive moisturizer. That's about all it takes to bang my gong.
Diablo Cody
#32. Their phobia was a fear of America and the West and modernity.
Nick Cohen
#33. Our level of love or our level of fear determines the state of our reality.
Stephen Richards
#34. Some people are not just afraid of snakes, they're phobic. The technical term for a snake phobia is ophidiophobia, and people who have it dream of snakes, see snakes under every rock or rumple in the carpet, and freak out when they see snakes on TV.
James Patterson
#35. When I was a teenager, if anyone recognized me for anything I did, it would ruin my day. I couldn't handle it. It was some sort of neurotic phobia. I guess I was paranoid that people would treat me differently, or in an unfair way, because of my job.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
#37. Peace-phobia is the outcome of nationalism and religion; while homophobia is the outcome of traditions and religion.
M.F. Moonzajer
#38. The enemy of development is this pain phobia - the unwillingness to do a tiny bit of suffering.
Bruce Lee
#40. It's a phobia I have. I never assume I'm going to be able to write another album after I finish one.
Bruce Cockburn
#41. When you have fear then the world is a big place. When you have courage then the world shrinks.
Stephen Richards
#42. My great fear in this life didn't have a name that I knew of. I was afraid of remaining exactly who I was, and that phobia instilled a shiver of fear into every one of my days. Something as simple as a fear of cats would have been a blessing.
William Lashner
#43. Parts of you are phobic of anger and generally terrified and ashamed of angry dissociative parts. There is often tremendous conflict between anger-avoidant and anger-fixated parts of an individual. Thus, an internal and perpetual cycle of rage-shame-fear creates inner chaos and pain.
Suzette Boon
#44. We'll have to work on your bunny phobia later.
Rick Riordan
#45. Anything you fear is a shackle to ur soul. It is a phobia that tethers and blinds ur ability to see and comprehend your life directions, making you feel discouraged and hopeless in times of danger
Michael Bassey Johnson
#46. A new study shows that having a severe phobia can hasten aging. But what if my greatest fear IS aging?!?
Stephen Colbert
#47. By the anointing of the Holy Spirit, anybody who is afflicted by any phobia can be set free.
Pedro Okoro
#49. I have to admit, I'm not patriotic. It has partly to do with principle, but it is also a phobia/neurosis.
Rabih Alameddine
#50. Shia phobia or Sunni phobia ... we never hear about this. They murder each other!
Manfred Gerstenfeld
#51. I have this phobia: I don't like mirrors. And I don't watch myself on television. If anything comes on, I make them shut it off, or I leave the room.
Pamela Anderson
#52. In fact, I didn't like heights, closed-in places, places that were too open - give me a phobia and I embraced it enthusiastically.
Kristina Douglas
#53. I suffer from two phobias: 1) Phobia-Phobia, the fear that you're unable to get scared, and 2) Xylophataquieopiaphobia, the fear of not pronouncing words correctly.
Brad Stine
#54. Usually the term phobia refers to the psychological fear of the human mind from something that poses a threat. But when a species starts using the term fear against a biological portion of itself, there is nothing more demeaning than this.
Abhijit Naskar
#55. My only phobia is untidiness. My hair has to be neatly kept; my shoes are always clean. Everything has to be in a straight line, in its place.
Norman Wisdom
#56. I hear a lot of talk today about xenophobia. Is it really phobia if you have something to be afraid of?
Bill Maher
#57. Get out of failure-o-phobia to enjoy success-o-mania.
Prerak Trivedi
#58. I hate bananas so much, it verges on a phobia.
Ahna O'Reilly
#59. Heights make my feet tingle; not sure if that is a phobia, but it isn't the greatest feeling.
Charlie Rowe
#60. Ever since my famous battle with Python, I've had a phobia of scaly reptilian creatures. (Especially if you include my stepmother, Hera. BOOM!)
Rick Riordan
#61. Some people have a phobia of midgets. They're, like, scared of them. I have the opposite - I see them, and I want to hold them down, cuddle them, be like, 'Come here, you little nugget. Who's your mommy now?' So cute!
Chelsea Handler
#62. Everybody else possessed the key to popularity and happiness, and his clumsy attempts to find his own key always ended with other children looking at him funny, or calling him names.
Belinda Bauer
#63. You'll think this is a bit silly, but I'm a bit
well, I have a thing about birds."
"What, a phobia?"
"Sort of."
"Well, that's the common term for an irrational fear of birds."
"What do they call a rational fear of birds, then?
Neil Gaiman
#64. One of those things I never exactly cared for was that phobia of appearing to be rich. To become rich is a natural thing, a result of your work, that which you've done.
Antonio Ermirio De Moraes
#68. Although enlightened people know that an extreme phobia wasn't a form of madness, hey could not help but regard it as odd.
Dean Koontz
#69. I suffer from peroxide phobia. Every time I've gotten near a blond woman, something of mine has disappeared. Jobs, boyfriends ... one time an angora sweater leaped right off my body.
Rita Rudner
#70. I'm claustrophobic. I can't go into haunted houses. They have these tight, dark, enclosed space. I freak out. That's my phobia. It gets me out of stuff. Someone asks me to do something and I tell them I can't because I'm claustrophobic.
Mark Consuelos
#71. I should not yield to it, he told himself once again as he walked along carrying the briefcase. Compulsion-obsession-phobia. But he could not free himself. It in my grip, I in its, he thought.
Philip K. Dick
#72. I've never been on safari because I've got a phobia of bugs. I just don't want things crawling on me when I'm sleeping. It's a shame given my passion for big cats. But I really enjoy photography, so I'd love to photograph leopards in the wild some day.
Jackie Collins
#73. I'm also taking singing classes as well, not that I ever plan to sing in public in my entire life. I actually have a phobia of singing, so I decided to take some singing lessons to help me get away from the phobia.
Kelly Hu
#74. My dirty little secret is I don't drive at all, though I have my license and I renew it every five years. I'm phobic. I keep worrying if I drive, I'll end up killing someone. I hoped that by writing about a car crash, I might understand and heal this phobia, but I didn't! I'm still phobic.
Caroline Leavitt
#75. If we subject the content of the dream to analysis, we become aware that the dream fear is no more justified by the dream content than the fear in a phobia is justified by the idea upon which the phobia depends.
Sigmund Freud
#76. My mother had a lot of phobias. She's pregnant with me and she was a very phobic person. So I was born into phobia, basically.
Dane Cook
