Italian Proverb Quotes

The mark of fear is not easily removed.

He that has been bitten by a snake is afraid of a rope.

When you're traumatized, you pick out one thing you remember more than anything else.

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

I have had a lifelong phobia of snakes.

Today fear, the most corroding of influences, is the moving cause ...

God! Is there anything uglier than a frightened man!

The scalded head feares cold water.

My A-number one visceral fear is speed. More than knives or snakes or confined spaces. Speed. I won't even go on a motor boat if I can help it.

The sight of a cage is only frightening to the bird that has once been caught.

I was shaking all over, and it wasn't from the vampire. Memories have teeth, too.

When the lab rats hear the bell ringing, they freeze. That's what fear does to you - fear stops you dead in your tracks. Fear can keep you from harm, but fear can also rob you of your potential. Fear can rob you of an experience. Fear can rob you of happiness. Fear can rob you of real life... Darkness has a way of scaring us.

Being frightened of things is worse than the things themselves.

Normally, we push away the things we're scared of.

I never liked guns, I hate them, I always blink before they go off.

What they were giving me seemed incredibly real to me, so I'd react to it in a very real way. That was frightening for me, especially because of the subject.

Having a phobia has changed me.

If I were to sum up the negative reactions to my work, I think there are two primary causes: one is that if there is discourse about anxiety it is necessarily going to induce anxiety. It will represent a return of the repressed for a great many people.

I have a paralyzing fear of snakes.

You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over.

I've always been scared to death of pain - afraid, even, to think of it.

Fear has governed my life, if I think about it.

I was haunted by a bear attack that happened in Algonquin Park in 1991. The problem was that I don't believe in ghosts, so that ruled out an exorcism. My other choice was to start writing.

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, basically.