Phobia Quotes

“We'll have to work on your bunny phobia later.”
― Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian

“In fiction: we find the predictable boring. In real life: we find the unpredictable terrifying.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Plagiarism is the fear of a blank page.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“When you explore your fears then you set yourself free.”
― Stephen Richards, Releasing You from Fear

“When you have mastered fear then you have mastered all.”
― Stephen Richards, Releasing You from Fear

“Theoretical considerations require that what is to-day the object of a phobia must at one time in the past have been the source of a high degree of pleasure.”
― Sigmund Freud, The Sexual Enlightenment of Children

“When you have fear then the world is a big place. When you have courage then the world shrinks.”
― Stephen Richards, Releasing You from Fear

“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

“Our level of love or our level of fear determines the state of our reality.”
― Stephen Richards, Releasing You from Fear

“You have to allow the fear to be a messenger;
to give you information that it's attempting to tell you: that you have a negative belief.

You can't be afraid of the fear.
You have to recognize it.
Allow it to do its job.
And therefore once it delivers the information,
what it's bringing your attention to [is]:
"Hey! hey! knock knock knock! You have this negative belief that is out of alignment that you don't prefer!"

Once it brings your attention to that,
you can say: "Thank you fear. Thank you for bringing my attention to something I didn't know about within myself, so that now I can deal with it, now that I can let it go. Thank you fear."

And as soon as you use fear that way and allow it to be what it is; allow it to do the job it was designed to do, it will not be felt as fear anymore.

You will welcome it as a messenger that will alert you to anything within you that's out of alignment.

And you will be excited about feeling it.
And then it will turn into excitement.

That's how you "Allow" with fear.”
― Bashar

“One cannot be afraid when they have nothing to lose.”
― Marissa Meyer, Supernova

“Glenn could see I was bricking it and turned round to me as I sat there, gripping the armrests.
"You all right?" he said.
"I hate flying, Boss. I'm shitting myself."
"Don't worry, Merse. It's going to be OK. We *won't* crash."
I thought, "Thank God for that. Glenn's said we're going to be safe. Nothing's going to fuck with us now.”
― Paul Merson, How Not to Be a Professional Footballer

“Depression possesses the soul, just the way alcohol possesses the body.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Stamerenophobia

“Sweaty palms, racing heart, choking back tears;
These are the ways I deal with all my fears.”
― Moyosore Owojuyigbe

“Phobia and neglecting the law will develop among a folk which there is injustice and inequality.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“Man is too frightened to become a man.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Phobias were common enough. Some people suffee from arachnophobia, or hysphobia, or myophobia, or pterophobia... Well-nigh everyone suffers occasionally from thanatophobia; many from necrophobia — although Morse was not really afraid of dead bodies at all, or so he told himself.”
― Colin Dexter, The Daughters of Cain

“I've been killing vampires half my life, and I tell you now, there is no one more afraid of dying than things who live forever!”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

“The experience of agoraphobia can range from mild to severe restriction in lifestyle, and a severe case may result in the individual’s being completely housebound or unable to leave home unaccompanied. Avoided activities may include driving (locally or long distance); traveling over bridges; going to grocery stores, malls, theaters, churches, or temples; being in crowds; going to restaurants; using public transportation; going to the barber or hairdresser; or being in enclosed or being in wide-open spaces. It is not uncommon for patients with agoraphobia to define a ’safe zone’ around their homes, and to be unable to venture outside this radius.”
― David H. Barlow, Anxiety and Its Disorders: The Nature and Treatment of Anxiety and Panic

“Quit being change-phobic.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, 10 GOLDEN Steps of Life

“Our capacity to create and manipulate mental representations has many benefits, and the ability to foresee new dangers is clearly one of them. This capacity also helps us to avoid repetitions of actual experiences of danger or injury without creating unnecessary phobias.”
― Randolph M. Nesse, Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine

“Some cues -for instance, snakes, spiders, and heights- readily elicit fear in ourselves and other primates. It should not surprise us to discover that we instinctively avoid certain cues that have long been associated with such dangers as falling and dangerous animals.”
― Randolph M. Nesse, Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine

“Math is linked in the popular mind with phobia and anxiety. You’d think we were discussing spiders.”
― Steven Strogatz

“There is more to stuttering than the mere repetition of words and phrases. And more to anxiety than just being nervous.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Stamerenophobia

“The stranger and the crowd are the stutterer's nightmare.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Stamerenophobia

“Stuttering was such a huge blow to the psyche, such that you felt like you had won a trophy if you spoke and did not stutter.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Stamerenophobia

“The worst thing anxiety ever did was to turn everyone into a stranger, no matter how many times you interacted with them.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Stamerenophobia

“I am not scared of the dark! I simply have chronic intractable nyctophobia!”
― Jonathan Trueman, The Treacle People: Still Sticky

“I don't call it queerphobia, just like I don't call it transphobia or Islamophobia. To call anti-queer bigotry or anti-trans hatred or anti-Muslim racism a phobia is to grant that kind of ugliness some measure of validity by implying that there is something to be afraid of. A phobia is a phobia because there is an irrational degree of fear behind it, which presupposes that there is something to fear, and, there, the person with the phobia deserves a degree of compassion and understanding.
I don't stand for that.
Call it what it is: hate. Hate that leads to and calls for violence. Hate that has consequences for people, for real human beings and their lives.”
― Giaae Kwon, I'll Love You Forever: Notes from a K-Pop Fan

“It’s a cliché that public speaking is the greatest private fear, but what if this is dead wrong? What if public dancing—and by extension, being willing to dance courageously through life—is our greatest secret fear?”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality