David Zayas Quotes

I was never afraid of anything in the world except the dentist.

It doesn't really matter whether you grip the arms of the dentist's chair or let your hands lie in your lap. The drill drills on.

Some tortures are physical And some are mental, But the one that is both Is dental.

I'm scared of injections and needles.

What do people mean when they say, 'I am not afraid of God because I know He is good'? Have they never even been to a dentist?

I definitely am afraid of needles. It's the only thing that actually scares me.

Giving blood, or being near a needle, is the absolute worst.

Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.

I'm scared of needles.

I feel blessed that I haven't seen or felt real pain to be immune to it. But I am dreading the time it comes. I feel blessed to have everything going fine. My parents' health is good, my brothers are well-settled, I have a great brother-in-law and my own career is doing fine. I hope and pray that I am fit and fine always.

I'll think, If this is his first punch, how are the others gonna feel? That's the only fear I have for myself.

I've had my teeth done, which was a massive insecurity for me.

I'm not afraid of needles.

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Isn't the fear of pain next brother to pain itself?

With the inevitability of a tongue returning to probe a painful tooth, we come back and back and back again to our fears, sitting to talk them over with the eagerness of a hungry man before a full and steaming plate.

No woman is a heroine to her dentist.

Somehow the anticipation of pain can be even more troubling, more a misery than the pain itself.

I kind of have a phobia for the dentist's office.

Running away from fear is fear; fighting pain is pain; trying to be brave is being scared

Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled.

Fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.

There would be nothing to frighten you if you refused to be afraid.

What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened down to your very bones.

Until that moment she had never thought she could do it. Never thought she would be brave enough or scared enough, or desperate enough to dare.