Fear of Flying Quotes

If one took no chances, one would not fly at all. Safety lies in the judgment of the chances one takes.

I try to get in quiet time and book time, but really, the only time I ever get that is when I'm on an airplane - I have a fear of flying, but I actually love flying because it's the only time I can sleep, and it's the only time I get to read.

I love traveling, but I hate planes.

I was so scared the first time I flew the flight attendant called me Whitey.

When I was younger, I had a horrible flight. Horrible. It was well before I was 10 years old. So I always thought to myself, 'I know I don't want to travel.' That's why I wanted to be a session guy, because I knew I could still play guitar and make a living at it - hopefully.

I've never been to Paris. I don't like to fly!

I'm very phobic about flying, but I'm also drawn to it.

I used to love getting on planes. I loved the packing and going places. Now I don't because I've developed these really bad sinuses. I have to take a prednisone to fly, but it works, and I'm OK.

I've always been a bad flyer, but I don't let it get in the way of travelling. I love stepping off the plane and feeling the heat and the foreign smell of being somewhere different.

Flying to me isn't scary, it's just incredibly boring. And I guess I have a fear of boredom, so in that regard, I'm afraid to fly.

In the past, I travelled with 'The Hero and the Crown' by Robin McKinley: I suffer from a fear of flying, and I felt a bit safer knowing I carried the book and characters with me.

To fly or not to fly, that's the question.

It's nice to see different places and different parts of the world. It's pretty cool, though I hate flying!

There was a time I wouldn't fly to California if I had to spend the night. Can you believe it? I would not fly to California, the phrase was, 'if the sun has to set on me.' I just had prejudices against it.

When I fly, I'm never afraid the plane is going to crash. But there have often been times when I was afraid it wouldn't crash. I was just afraid it was going to circle O'Hare for the rest of my life.

I'm not a nervous flier. I realize it's still the safest form of travel.

Any time I'm in a moving thing, like an airplane, I'm usually asleep before we even get on our way.

I took a Fear of Flying class, and I always missed the class, because I was always flying.

I had the feeling every time I was on a plane everyone was going to die. It was a horrible phobia. A stupid one.

There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.

All fliers have some concern about flying. Some handle it by 'flying' the plane. They're 'raising' the wheels, 'making' the turns and so on. Others handle it by tuning out... reading a book or watching a movie.

I'm not a good flyer. Because I do it so much, I think the odds of something going wrong are not in my favour.

Grief is no more necessary when we understand death than fear is necessary when we understand flying.

It's something I want to overcome. And my kids are scared to death to fly. I want them to witness me overcome it.

I finally overcame my phobia, and now I approach flying with a sort of studied boredom - a learned habit, thanks to my learn-to-fly-calmly training - but like all former flying phobics, I retain a weird and feverish fascination with aviation news, especially bad news.