Quotes on Phobia

A new study shows that having a severe phobia can hasten aging. But what if my greatest fear IS aging?!?

I hate the word homophobia. It's not a phobia. You are not scared. You are an asshole.

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

We don’t ask why God chose as his prophet a stutterer with a public speaking phobia. But we should. The book of Exodus is short on explication, but its stories suggest that introversion plays yin to the yang of extroversion; that the medium is not always the message; and that people followed Moses because his words were thoughtful, not because he spoke them well.

In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.

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

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.