Phobia Quotes

• I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Life, Hate, Water

  Tallulah Bankhead (1952). “Tallulah: My Autobiography”, p.2, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Leadership, Bullying

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1933 See Francis Bacon 7; Montaigne 4; Thoreau 16; Wellington 3

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  The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Fear, Halloween, Scary

  H. P. Lovecraft (2014). “Complete Collection Of H. P. Lovecraft - 150 eBooks With 100+ Audiobooks (Complete Collection Of Lovecraft's Fiction, Juvenilia, Poems, Essays And Collaborations)”, p.11, Ageless Reads

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• Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.

  Mark Twain

  Courage, Fear, Cancer

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• The other side of every fear is a freedom.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Fear, Sides, Ignorance And Fear

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• Tell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of

  Robert Benchley

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

  My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew "Phobias" (1936)

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• I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

  Frank Herbert

  Inspirational, Motivational, Death

  Frank Herbert (2010). “Heretics Of Dune: The Fifth Dune Novel”, p.10, Hachette UK

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• Most intellectuals today have a phobia of any explanation of the mind that invokes genetics.

  Steven Pinker

  Mind, Today, Genetics

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• 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

  Reality, Mirrors, Watches

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• Homophobia is just that: a phobia.

  George Weinberg

  Homophobia

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• Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Friendship, Spiritual, Fear

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• I write about rats because they scare the hell out of me. I think we tend to write out our phobias.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Thinking

  Interview with Phil Konstantin, americanindian.net. July 1987.

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• I have no phobias. Phobias are irrational. My fears are rational and CAREFULLY CULTIVATED, like roses.

  Maureen Johnson

  Rose, Irrational, Rational

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• I have had a lifelong phobia of snakes.

  Jessica Savitch

  Snakes, Lifelong

  Jessica Savitch (1983). “Anchorwoman”, Berkley

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• Having a phobia has changed me.

  Willard Scott

  Changed

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• All the fantasy writers I know have a way of dwelling on their own fears and phobias. A writer spends his life being his own psychiatrist.

  Charles Beaumont

  Writing, Dwelling, Way

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• The psychological condition of fear is divorced from any concrete and true immediate danger. It comes in many forms: unease, worry, anxiety, nervousness, tension, dread, phobia, and so on. This kind of psychological fear is always of something that might happen, not of something that is happening now.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Fear, Worry, Anxiety

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.43, New World Library

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• 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

  Two, Suffering, Scared

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• Sometimes the cultures phobia of religion borders on the absurd.

  Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

  Christian, Religious, Borders

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• I have a phobia of checking voicemail. I watched a lot of TV as a kid, and everything is, like, you're gonna get kidnapped, or somebody's gonna die, or killer bees are going to take you out. I'm a very anxious person.

  Annie E. Clark

  Kids, Killers, Tvs

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I avoid people who I actually like. I suppose that’s a phobia but also a habit.

  Steven Morrissey

  People, Habit

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• Theres something about most phobias where theres a tiny, tiny corner where you think this really actually could happen.

  Roz Chast

  Thinking, Tiny, Happens

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• The key to change is to let go of fear.

  Rosanne Cash

  Inspirational, Change, Letting Go

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I kind of have a phobia for the dentist's office.

  Joelle Carter

  Office, Kind, Dentist

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I have a phobia of spoons I haven't used one in about 10 years

  Liam Payne

  Years, Spoons, Used

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