Agoraphobia Quotes

• Choosing to live in narrow spaces leads to form of mental agoraphobia and that brings its own terrors. I think the willfully unimaginative see more monsters, they are often more afraid. What is more, those who choose not to empathize enable real monsters. For without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude through our own apathy.

  J. K. Rowling

  Real, Thinking, Space

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• Those who choose not to empathize enable real monsters, for without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves we collude with it through our apathy.

  J. K. Rowling

  Real, Evil, Monsters

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• What seems different in yourself; that's the rare thing you possess. The one thing that gives each of us his worth, and that's just what we try to suppress. And we claim to love life.

  Andre Gide

  Love Life, Giving, Trying

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• I think the willfully unimaginative see more monsters. They are often more afraid.

  J. K. Rowling

  Thinking, Monsters

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• Agoraphobia was my quirky armor against a gregarious America.

  Florence King

  America, Quirky, Armor

  Florence King (1982). “When sisterhood was in flower”, Viking Pr

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• Writers tend to be addicted to houses ... We work at home, indulging the agoraphobia endemic to our kind. We are immersed in our surroundings to an almost morbid degree.

  Erica Jong

  Home, House, Degrees

  Erica Jong (2007). “What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong”, p.162, Penguin

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• Yet I'm sure there's something more to be read in a man. People dare not -- they dare not turn the page. The laws of mimicry -- I call them the laws of fear. People are afraid to find themselves alone, and don't find themselves at all. I hate this moral agoraphobia -- it's the worst kind of cowardice. You can't create something without being alone. But who's trying to create here? What seems different in yourself: that's the one rare thing you possess, the one thing which gives each of us his worth; and that's just what we try to suppress. We imitate. And we claim to love life.

  Andre Gide

  Love, Hate, Men

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• For me, boviscopophobia is an even stronger motive than semi-agoraphobia for staying on the ship when we're in port.

  David Foster Wallace

  Travel, Stronger, Bovine

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• Go to parties. You can't even start to know what you may find on the envelope of serendipity. If you suffer from agoraphobia, send colleagues.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Party, Serendipity, Suffering

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