Quotes About Irrational Fear

#1. But if they were afraid of lemon meringue pie, this would be an irrational fear, because lemon meringue pie is delicious and has never hurt a soul.

Lemony Snicket

#2. I had a sudden and irrational fear that I was going to turn into Anastasia Steele and start spouting off things about my inner goddess and referring to my fucking cunt as down there.

C.M. Stunich

#3. I have often wondered if the irrational fear some men have of women that incites them to subjugate and oppress the female species begins in the adage: I brought you into this world, I can take you out!

Annastacia Dickerson

#4. I approach my character with the question: What would an animal think? How would an animal respond? A lot of times, it's quick action and no fear, and sometimes it's irrational fear. You don't always know.

Victoria Pratt

#5. Courage is resistance against rational or irrational fear.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#6. I have an irrational fear that I'm going to have a gruesome and untimely death because so many wonderful things are happening to me.

Margot Robbie

#7. I have an irrational fear that something bad is going to happen to me when I'm drinking out of a water fountain. I have no idea why.

Andrew Luck

#8. 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

#9. Is the drive to refuse gay blood a fear of contracting HIV/AIDS, or is it an embodiment of the irrational fear that receiving blood from gay people will somehow make them gay?

Christina Engela

#10. I stumbled through the dark underbrush again crying out as I plunged through a thick spiderweb. My arms frantically brushed away the clinging web as irrational fear made me batshit-crazy for a moment. Scared of a damn spider when a bloodthirsty demon was chasing me down. Ridiculous.

Jenn Bennett

#11. She hoped to understand the feelings that had sprouted and continued to grow inside her human shell. The unquenchable desire for companionship. The irrational fear of uncertainty. The constant, gnawing need for more.

Hillary Jacques

#12. When I stand on the edge of a cliff or right at the edge of a building or something, it's one of the few things that gives me kind of a deep, overwhelming, irrational fear where it affects my physiology.

Chris Hadfield

#13. As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers, so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.

Cyril Connolly

#14. The bubble had subsided, leaving only a tiny scar, but the irrational fear of water never quite left her. I never allowed her to forget, not for a moment.

Deepti Menon

#15. She had this terrible, irrational fear that if she let go of him she would never touch him again and the thought of that was paralyzing.

Kristin Hannah

#16. We have to be the people who stand up and say look, vigilance is good and prudence is good. But a kind of irrational fear that leads itself to demagogic rhetoric is something that we have to say no - no, we're not going to go there.

Russell D. Moore

#17. The parts of my new job that filled me with abject and irrational fear, that twisted me into all kinds of knots, were the raw emotions of those left alive. It was the living who were the great unknown.

Scot Gardner

#18. I am never excited to play through a song all the way, because it can reveal more flaws that mean more work. For some reason, I always have an irrational fear that the song will never be finished.

Robert Lopez

#19. It was an irrational fear. But when had fear ever been rational?

Veronica Rossi

#20. The paralyzing fear of being lost is fed solely by the irrational fear that we will never be found.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#21. I don't have arachnophobia (irrational fear of spiders) because fear of spiders is perfectly rational so I refuse to recognize it as a "disorder.

Jenny Lawson

#22. I actually have a very real, irrational fear of zombies.

Jessica De Gouw

#23. Irrational fear feeds on itself and grows. You must deny it.

Dean Koontz

#24. Homophobia: The irrational fear the three fags will break into your house and redecorate it against your will.

Tom Ammiano

#25. The ... irrational fear of communism is being deliberately used in many quarters to blind us to our real problems.

Helen Gahagan Douglas

#26. In fact, his purity scared them off, and his honesty ignited irrational fear in an America where men were draped with medals for killing other men yet imprisoned for loving one another.

Morrissey

#27. No churchmen, I notice. Of course not. What use have they for a world without irrational fear?

Jonathan L. Howard

#28. Rational thinking is an important aspect of human nature, but we have imagination, we have ambition, we have irrational fear, we are swayed by other people, we get indoctrinated and we get influenced by advertising.

Ha-Joon Chang

#29. If you're afraid of something, face it. Fear is irrational. The only way to conquer your fear is to stand next to it.

Jennifer Armintrout

#30. If I had to describe what love meant, really, not in the abstract or the sentimental or the way I'd imagined it before, that I'd say it was completely irrational, made up of so many opposites, the kind that couldn't exist without the other: bliss and sadness, courage and fear, adoration and disgust.

Jill Bialosky

#31. There are ages in which the rational man and the intuitive man stand side by side, the one in fear of intuition, the other with scorn for abstraction. The latter is just as irrational as the former is inartistic.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#32. When fear displaces reason, the result is often irrational hatred and division.

Al Gore

#33. The Christian who loves his Master needs not fear any longer for himself. For it is then completely irrational, as it is written thus: 'Perfect love casts out fear.' However, it is very much rational for one to fear instead for the enemies of God.

Criss Jami

#34. Fear is an irrational emotion that floats from object to object like a helium balloon that you touch with your fingertips.

James Lee Burke

#35. There's absolutely nothing irrational about me; insane, yes, irrational, no. But my dumbest fear would be spinning in the magic tea cups. Who the hell wants to pay to spin around like a bent yoyo for laughs?

Akshay Kumar

#36. Any fear associated with giving to God's kingdom is irrational. It's on par with a farmer who, out of fear of losing his seed, refuses to plant his fields.

Andy Stanley

#37. Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

Louis D. Brandeis

#38. Our enemy is fear. Blinding, reason-killing fear. Fear consumes the truth and poisons all the evidence, leading us to false assumptions and irrational conclusions.

Rick Yancey

#39. I have only the vaguest memory of a life before fear. Every morning when I wake up there is one blissful second before I took around the room and remember my daily terrors.

Lena Dunham

#40. When an experiment was to begin, all women were excluded for fear their irrational natures would influence the result, and an air of fervent concentration descended.

Iain Pears

#41. Behind every flinch is a fear or an anxiety - sometimes rational, sometimes not. Without the fear, there is no flinch. But wiping out the fear isn't what's important - facing it is.

Julien Smith

#42. Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of most people to speculate or gamble ... to give way to hope, fear and greed.

Benjamin Graham

#43. Congress remains in total denial as our liberties are rapidly fading before our eyes. The process is propelled by unwarranted fear and ignorance as to the true meaning of liberty. It is driven by economic myths, fallacies and irrational good intentions.

Ron Paul

#44. There are two kinds of fears: rational and irrational- or in simpler terms, fears that make sense and fears that don't.

Lemony Snicket

#45. Fear of death is irrational. We all know we will die one day. But again we are irrational beings

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#46. I learned much too late
that what you called love
was nothing but a
desperate and irrational
fear of a life lived alone.

Beau Taplin

#47. I think we are intrinsically prone to being irrational and superstitious. A lot of it comes from our fear of the unknown and the fear of a lack of control over our fate.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

#48. He had learned a long time ago that some things were worth being afraid of. And some things were not. Things that he had done before and survived did not justify fear. To be afraid of a survivable thing was irrational.

Lee Child

#49. You can't stay here any more. My fears have been irrational and they've forced me to make unwise decisions and accept the unacceptable.

Dorothy Koomson

#50. Fear and anger are a threat to justice. They can infect a community, a state, or a nation, and make us blind, irrational, and dangerous.

Bryan Stevenson

#51. He knew some fear should be respected, as it can keep you out of real
danger. But he realized most of his fears were irrational and had kept him
from changing when he needed to.

Spencer Johnson

#52. There are irrational fears. If you see a woman wearing a hijab and fear is your first thought, something's really wrong.

Hamza Yusuf

#53. Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built.

Erich Fromm

#54. Emotions are subject to change, they make one irrational instead of logical, and are impossible to predict. Fear, anger, frustration. Lust, jealousy, hate. And yes, even love, are to be avoided.

Tiffany Snow