Phobias Including Quote by Jack Lynch

“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

“¹Arachnophobia - fear of spiders. ²Verbophobia - fear of words. ³Ichthyophobia - fear of fish. ⁴Ligyrophobia - fear of loud noises. ⁵Chromatophobia - fear…

— James Warwood

“His unconscious was rapidly becoming a well-stocked pantheon of tutelary phobias and obsessions, homing onto his already over-burdened psyche like lost telepaths.”

— J.G. Ballard

“he was the most gifted English scientist of his age, but also the strangest. He suffered, in the words of one of his few…

— Bill Bryson

“While learning about phobias in my college psychology course, I came across the fear of long words- or, as referred to in the medical…

— John Goldner

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

“His addiction to millenarianism, his confidence in visions, his prophetic stridency, his hatred of art, and his mistrust of secular scholarship align him with…

— Felipe Fernández-Armesto

“Sometimes the complexities of the mind can be intriguing, but the dark side of one’s thoughts can create its own phobias.”

— Daniel "Z" Hastings

“He tried sedatives and hypnotics but they made him dependent, sending him inward in tight spirals. Every act he performed was self-haunted and synthetic.…

— Don DeLillo

“In addition to anxiety and irritability, other symptoms include an irrational belief that he can alter reality; a clear tendency to act in a…

— Basma Abdel Aziz

Somehow, the painting soothed him. It verified his fears. But it also informed him that fear was wonderful.

— Timothy Findley

Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia is the fear of long words.

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