Acrophobia Quotes

I don't have a fear of heights. I do, however, have a fear of falling from heights.

I don't like spiders at all, but I love heights.

It would be very, very dangerous for a wire walker to experience fear while he is balancing on the wire. Fear has its place on earth, before and maybe after a high-wire walk, but not during for me.

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

I'm afraid of heights. Not unreasonably, but rationally afraid of heights. I think everyone is.

It is treacherous on a high wire to change your focus point and suddenly look down.

If there is a fear of falling, the only safety consists in deliberately jumping.

I have a fear of heights that borders on mania.

I'm afraid one thing - I don't like heights. Heights bug me out. I'm not cool with heights. I refuse to do a comedy show 12 stories up. I'm fearless about everything else.

I'm still pretty terrified of heights.

Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.

As a high wire walker, I do not allow myself to 'leave the wire' during a performance.

I can't even handle a spider in my bathtub. I'm scared of the dark, and I've got ultimate, epic bug phobia.

I'd like to jump out of a plane. I have a fear of heights I'd like to face.

It's very normal - when you're not used to the world of the high wire, it's very normal to be simply terrified. The reason I'm not is because I've done it for so many years.

And one of his partners asked Has he vertigo? and the other glanced out and down and said Oh no, only about ten feet more.

Merripen, despite his fear of heights, had often climbed a ladder to wash the second floor window for her. He had wanted her view of the outside world to be clear. He had said the sky should always be blue for her.

I have a fear of heights and I'm claustrophobic.

In real life, I'm afraid of heights - and people who get moral convictions... Adolf Hitler in London.

I'm scared shitless of heights.

I have a major phobia of height and water.

I don't like heights. This is why I stopped growing at fifth grade.

My biggest fear, I think falling from a great height. If I want to keep myself awake at night I imagine I'm on the top of the North or South Tower in 9/11, wondering whether I'm going to be burnt to death or I'm going to jump. And I think I would burn to death. And yet I'm impressed by the fact that hundreds didn't.

...You know the mistrust of heights is the mistrust of self, you don't know whether you're going to jump.

I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.