Irrational Fears Quotes

Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.

Danger is the very basis of superstition. It produces a searching after help supernaturally when human means are no longer supposed to be available.

I tend to scare myself.

Remember, taboos are just a map of what a society feels it's acceptable to be neurotic about. Taboos aren't rational.

False fears are a plague, a modern plague!

If you're frightened of leprechauns, the best thing to do is to get yourself a little leprechaun outfit and see how big they are. And then you'll go, 'Well I see. That's like bein' frightened of a hampster.'

I have a lot of mental issues that I just am so fearful of things, which I shouldn't be, right? Scared of heights. Scared of buildings falling on me. Scared of the dark. Scared of crowds. Those are my biggest issues. I'm just scared of people. It's just - in general.

... we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.

He suffers from delusions of adequacy.

OCD, we discovered is a lot of different things-it's not just washing your hands, it's whatever you're obsessed with. It can be just the way you hold a pen, and you always have to have it a certain way or you have to eat your food, it depends. It's something that, as a character I thought was really interesting because sometimes it's used in a film where it is OCD and sometimes it's strategic.

It was a salad bar of phobias

It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

One correspondent, who is into psychology, notes that in his experience people who are hoplophobes are nearly always nutty in other ways, too. Hoplophobia [fear of guns], of course, is not simply an attitude but rather an aberration in which the sufferer clings to an idea which he himself knows to be unsound, such as the idea that inanimate instruments have a will of their own or that lawbreakers abide by the law.

The superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbelieve in them.

I am bundle of nerves riddled with irrational fears.

Any irrational fears?no, i'm quite a rationalist. i'm not superstitious, i think life is too full of natural wonders and logical complexities to worry about illogical things.

Fear is the most costly of all the human emotions, even though most fears have no foundation in fact.

Men almost universally have acknowledged providence, but that fact has had no force to destroy natural aversions and fears in the presence of events.

sometimes there are reasons for our fears that we can’t quite explain. Sometimes it’s just something we feel in our bones, something we know to be true, but would sound foolish to anyone else.

I do have odd habits. I check under my bed every night for the bogeyman. That's just a little thing, though.

There is a place in men's lives where pictures do in fact bleed, ghosts gibber and shriek, maidens run forever through mysterious landscapes from nameless foes; that place is, of course, the world of dreams and of the repressed guilts and fears that motivate them [i.e., the unconscious]. This world the dogmatic optimism and shallow psychology of the Age of Reason had denied; and yet this world it is the final, perhaps the essential, purpose of the gothic romance to assert.

Women are afraid of mice and of murder, and of very little in between.

The worst evils of life are those which do not exist except in our imagination.

There can be a conspiracy, but the presence of a conspiracy is actually not an excuse for conspiracy thinking.