Fear Quote by David Sedaris

The word 'phobic' has its place when properly used, but lately it's been declawed by the pompous insistence that most animosity is based upon…

— David Sedaris

“The root meaning of phobo, the Greek term for fear, is “flight.” That’s the nature of fear. Fear causes us to run away from…

— Wayne A. Mack

I did quite a lot of research for 'Phobia' because it's a very sensitive topic, so I couldn't have just faked it.

— Radhika Apte

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,…

— Dane Cook

I'm basically a fearful person. I'm a phobic person.

— Spalding Gray

“When avoidance becomes pervasive, it is known as phobia. Phobias develop in different ways. A phobic reaction is one in which a person feels…

— Jonathan Berent

“Language-lovers know that there is a word for every fear. Are you afraid of wine? Then you have oenophobia. Tremulous about train travel? You…

— Steven Pinker

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

— Maureen Johnson

“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…

— Sigmund Freud

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…

— Scott Stossel

“I smile gently while churning inside and thinking about what I’ve learned is a signature characteristic of the phobic personality: “the need and ability”—as…

— Scott Stossel

I've fallen prey to my fair share of moments of the phobias of others and the way that that can become an attack.

— Ezra Miller