Tallulah Bankhead Quotes

For a while I couldn't leave the house by myself. Even if I was just grocery shopping alone, I'd get self-conscious.

I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.

I know just how isolating it can feel to experience severe anxiety.

Anxiety has afflicted me all my life.

There was about two years where I was more or less agoraphobic and didn't deal with anybody, didn't talk to anybody, didn't have any friends at all.

I am very scared of being outside my home for long periods of time.

I don't like being in houses alone.

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

Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.

People come up to me all the time. If I'm with friends or in a crowd, I'm fine, but if I'm by myself, I get afraid because people are nuts.

I don't know if it's irrational, and I would never say this before, but I think I'm a little bit agoraphobic when I'm in huge crowds of people. I mean, it's claustrophobic, probably - small spaces and large groups of people, anxiety rises for me.

I have a lot of friends, but my biggest fear is loneliness. I miss my family in Mumbai, and my biggest nightmare every day is to go back home alone.

There's no way to eloquently put this. I just can't go to the mall. It bothers me that I can't be outside very often. And also to not ever be just 'some girl' again. Just being some chick at some place, that's gone.

I get panic attacks in big crowds.

I thought I wasn't attractive or talented anymore. I cried easily and was depressed and removed. I became emotionally insecure about what the second half of my life would bring. I was angry, scared, frightened and lonely.

My phobias worsen as I get older. I'm scared of flying, driving. I'm terrified of sharks. I'm a germaphobe. But I try to face my fears; I do. Well, most of them.

So in some ways my life, my background has been isolating and I think I'm a bit more scared as a person. I don't walk alone or in the dark. If I go out the driver will wait for me to go into the house.

I don't share lots of the phobias that horror movies tap into. I don't mind spiders or snakes or darkness.

I suffer from everyday life.

I have a lot of fears that normal people have.

How one hates to think of oneself as alone. How one avoids it. It seems to imply rejection or unpopularity.

I had a fear of being alone.

I've had a lot of fear in my life, from fear of flying to fear of making a speech in front of a lot of people.

The root of the problem I have is anxiety, and it's all derived from something - I'm just going to say it, some kind of sadness. It manifests in so many different ways and it affects people differently.

I am uncomfortable with heights, I'm scared of the dark and I am scared of big crowds.