Phobias

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Answers to the phobia quiz

1. Arachnophobia - fear of spiders

2. Phagophobia - fear of swallowing

3. Bathmophobia - fear of stairs

4.Scolionophobia - fear of school

5. Zelophobia - fear of jealousy

6. Ranidaphobia - fear of frogs

7.Verminophobia - fear of germs

8. Trypanophobia - fear of injections

9. Snakephobia - fear of snakes

10. Pteromerhanophobia -fear of flying

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Some famous quotes about fear and phobia:

"The only thing we have to fear is fear it'self - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified, terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance." ---- FDR - First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1933 "One of the things which danger does to you after a time is -, well, to kill emotion. I don't think I shall ever feel anything again except fear. None of us can hate anymore - or love." ---- Graham Greene - The Confidential Agent (1939) "What are fears but voices airy? Whispering harm where harm is not. And deluding the unwary Till the fatal bolt is shot!" ---- Wordsworth "Fear - jealousy - money - revenge - and protecting someone you love." ---- Frederick Knott - Max Halliday, listing the five important motives for murder, Dial M for Murder (1952) "What potions have I drunk of Siren tears, Distill'd from limbecks foul as hell within, Applying fears to hopes, and hopes to fears, Still losing when I saw myself to win!" ---- Will - Sonnets "Fear is a tyrant and a despot, more terrible than the rack, more potent than the snake." ---- Edgar Wallace - The Clue of the Twisted Candle (1916) "- Tush! Tush! Fear little boys with bugs." ---- Will - The Taming of the Shrew "All of us are born with a set of instinctive fears--of falling, of the dark, of lobsters, of falling on lobsters in the dark, or speaking before a Rotary Club, and of the words "Some Assembly Required." ---- Dave Barry "Am I afraid of high notes? Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?" ---- Luciano Pavarotti "Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is." ---- German Proverb

"Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark." ---- Francis Bacon "The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear." --- H.P. Lovecraft "In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly." ---- Coleridge "I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain." --- Frank Herbert, Dune - Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear "A man who has been in danger, When he comes out of it forgets his fears, And sometimes he forgets his promises." ---- Euripides - Iphigenia in Tauris (414-12 BC) "He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That puts it not unto the touch To win or lose it all" ---- James Graham - Marquis of Montrose "I have almost forgot the taste of fears. The time has been my senses would have cool'd To hear a night shriek, and my fell of hair Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir As life were in't. I have supp'd full with horrors; Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, Cannot once start me." ---- Will - Macbeth "Being frightened is an experience you can't buy." ---- Anthony Price - Sion Crossing (1984) "What we fear comes to pass more speedily than what we hope." ---- Publilius Syrus - Moral Sayings (1st C B.C.) "Solitude scares me. It makes me think about love, death, and war. I need distraction from anxious, black thoughts." ---- Brigitte Bardot "Why are we scared to die? Do any of us remember being scared when we were born?" ---- Trevor Kay "A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice." ---- Edgar Watson Howe - Country Town Sayings (1911) Courage is not the lack of fear but the ability to face it." ---- Lt. John B. Putnam Jr. (1921-1944)

There are too many phobias to list on this website.  Here are just a few to browse.

A

Achluophobia - Fear of darkness.
Acrophobia - Fear of heights.
Agliophobia - Fear of pain.
Agoraphobia - Fear of open spaces or crowds.
Aichmophobia - Fear of needles or pointed objects.
Amaxophobia - Fear of riding in a car.
Androphobia - Fear of men.
Anginophobia - Fear of angina or choking.
Anthrophobia - Fear of flowers.
Anthropophobia - Fear of people or society.
Aphenphosmphobia - Fear of being touched.
Arachnophobia - Fear of spiders.
Arithmophobia - Fear of numbers.
Astraphobia - Fear of thunder and lightening.
Ataxophobia - Fear of disorder or untidiness.
Atelophobia - Fear of imperfection.
Atychiphobia - Fear of failure.
Autophobia - Fear of being alone.

B

Bacteriophobia - Fear of bacteria.
Barophobia - Fear of gravity.
Bathmophobia - Fear of stairs or steep slopes.
Batrachophobia - Fear of amphibians.
Belonephobia - Fear of pins and needles.
Bibliophobia - Fear of books.
Botanophobia - Fear of plants.

C

Cacophobia - Fear of ugliness.
Catagelophobia - Fear of being ridiculed.
Catoptrophobia - Fear of mirrors.
Chionophobia - Fear of snow.
Chromophobia - Fear of colors.
Chronomentrophobia - Fear of clocks.
Claustrophobia - Fear of confined spaces.
Coulrophobia - Fear of clowns.
Cyberphobia - Fear of computers.
Cynophobia - Fear of dogs.

D

Dendrophobia - Fear of trees.
Dentophobia - Fear of dentists.
Domatophobia - Fear of houses.
Dystychiphobia - Fear of accidents.

E

Ecophobia - Fear of the home.
Elurophobia - Fear of cats.
Entomophobia - Fear of insects.
Ephebiphobia - Fear of teenagers.
Equinophobia - Fear of horses.

G

Gamophobia - Fear of marriage.
Genuphobia - Fear of knees.
Glossophobia - Fear of speaking in public.
Gynophobia - Fear of women.

H

Heliophobia - Fear of the sun.
Hemophobia - Fear of blood.
Herpetophobia - Fear of reptiles.
Hydrophobia - Fear of water.

I

Iatrophobia - Fear of doctors.
Insectophobia - Fear of insects.

K

Koinoniphobia - Fear of rooms.

L

Leukophobia - Fear of the color white.
Lilapsophobia - Fear of tornadoes and hurricanes.
Lockiophobia - Fear of childbirth.

M

Mageirocophobia - Fear of cooking.
Megalophobia - Fear of large things.
Melanophobia - Fear of the color black.
Microphobia - Fear of small things.
Mysophobia - Fear of dirt and germs.

N

Necrophobia - Fear of death or dead things.
Noctiphobia - Fear of the night.
Nosocomephobia - Fear of hospitals.

O

Obesophobia - Fear of gaining weight.
Octophobia - Fear of the figure 8.
Ombrophobia - Fear of rain.
Ophidiophobia - Fear of snakes.
Ornithophobia - Fear of birds.

P

Papyrophobia - Fear of paper.
Pathophobia - Fear of disease.
Pedophobia - Fear of children.
Philophobia - Fear of love.
Phobophobia - Fear of phobias.
Podophobia - Fear of feet.
Porphyrophobia - Fear of the color purple.
Pteridophobia - Fear of ferns.
Pteromerhanophobia - Fear of flying.
Pyrophobia - Fear of fire.

S

Scolionophobia - Fear of school.
Selenophobia - Fear of the moon.
Sociophobia - Fear of social evaluation.
Somniphobia - Fear of sleep.

T

Tachophobia - Fear of speed.
Technophobia - Fear of technology.
Tonitrophobia - Fear of thunder.
Trypanophobia - Fear of injections.

V-Z

Venustraphobia - Fear of beautiful women.
Verminophobia - Fear of germs.
Wiccaphobia - Fear of witches and witchcraft.
Xenophobia - Fear of strangers or foreigners.
Zoophobia - Fear of animals.