Claustrophobia Quotes

• I was tortured fifteen times, thats total submission. They did that with shutting off your blood circulation with ropes, giving you claustrophobia and pain at the same time, bending you double.

  James Stockdale

  Pain, Blood, Giving

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• This claustrophobia was the only weakness I had. It's not my fault. It's just in my mind.

  Felix Baumgartner

  Mind, Weakness, Faults

  "Felix Baumgartner: 'I hope I can make fear cool'". Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. November 2, 2012.

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• From the time I was a little kid, I was always shy. Performing was when I was outgoing. So I guess I am a loner. I get claustrophobia if a lot of people are around.

  Johnny Carson

  Kids, People, Loner

  Source: www.alex-haley.com

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• Empty?! You took all the cookies!" "They were crying to get out of the jar... Cookies get claustrophobia too, you know!

  Charles M. Schulz

  Cookies, Jars, Cry

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• I guess my claustrophobia is incurable - feeling, as I tend to, ill at ease in any closed room, and always tempted to find out what is on the other side of the door.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Doors, Feelings, Ease

  Source: www.theoryculturesociety.org

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• I think the other side of that is embracing the claustrophobia, and that's what a huge piece of this show is, just watching people go through having to be stuck in that. I think the audience is going to feel some of that. It might not be comfortable, but it's really cool to just be experiencing that along with the characters that you're watching.

  Kyra Zagorsky

  Character, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

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• Women want everything of a lover. And too often I would sink below the surface. So armies disappear under sand. And there was her fear of her husband, her belief in her honour, my old desire for self-sufficiency, my disappearances, her suspicions of me, my disbelief that she loved me. The paranoia and claustrophobia of hidden love.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Husband, Army, Self

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The English Patient”, p.238, Vintage

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• Sitting in an automobile was where I first remember understanding how drama works ... Hidden in the back seat of a sedan, I quickly realized how deep the chasm or intense the claustrophobia could be inside your average family car.

  Neil LaBute

  Drama, Average, Car

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• Cole chuckled, saying, “Fear of spiders is arachnophobia, and fear of tight spaces is claustrophobia, but fear of Ali Bell is just called logic.

  Gena Showalter

  Space, Spiders, Bells

  Gena Showalter (2014). “Through the Zombie Glass”, p.422, Harlequin

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• Ali Bell doesn't play hide-and-seek," Lucas said. "She plays hide-and-pray-I-don't-find-you." Mackenzie smiled. "When Ali Bell gives you the finger, she's telling you how many seconds you have to live." Cole chuckled, saying, "Fear of spiders is arachnophobia, and fear of tight spaces is claustrophobia, but fear of Ali Bell is just called logic." "Oh, oh." Kat clapped excitedly. "There used to be a street named after Ali Bell, but it was changed because nobody crosses Ali Bell and lives. True story.

  Gena Showalter

  Play, Space, Giving

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• Going down on a woman gives me a stiff neck, going down on a man gives me lockjaw and conventional sex gives me claustrophobia.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Sex, Men, Giving

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• For me, it's a multitude of things. In the modern world, there's a real genuine fear of loss of individuality and I think the undead speak to that. I also think the idea of the dead coming back to life, and this unstoppable foe that just keeps coming and coming, but rather slowly just chases you, is a real primal fear. It's like a fear of claustrophobia, heights or water.

  Paul W. S. Anderson

  Real, Loss, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• I like to be in a huis clos, as the French say - in one place. It's something that in general can create a bit of claustrophobia. But for me, claustrophobia becomes almost immediately claustrophilia. I love it!

  Bernardo Bertolucci

  Bits

  "Bernardo Bertolucci: 'I thought I couldn't make any more movies'". Interview with Geoffrey Macnab, www.theguardian.com. February 1, 2013.

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• I'm still terrified of flying. I really have to get drunk to fly. I've found that I've developed fears I never had before... fears of heights, claustrophobia... only in cities, though, never in the country.

  Jimmy Page

  Country, Cities, Drunk

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• Writing stories is my way of scratching that itch: my escape from the claustrophobia of individuality. It lets me, at least for a while, live more than one life, walk more than one path. Reading, of course, can do the same.

  Emma Donoghue

  Reading, Writing, Individuality

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• Sharks have a deadly form of claustrophobia. It's not so much fear of enclosed spaces as it is inability to exist in them. No one knows why. Some say it's the metal in aquariums that throws their equilibrium off. But whatever it is, big sharks don't last long in captivity

  Neal Shusterman

  Sharks, Aquariums, Space

  Neal Shusterman (2009). “Unwind”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

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• I have sort of issues with my claustrophobia where being on an airplane or if I force myself, to put myself in these circumstances that I kind of, am afraid of, that can be a way to toughen me up.

  Robert Greene

  Airplane, Issues, Way

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• The discovery of phobias by psychiatrists has done much to clear the atmosphere. Whereas in the old days a person would say: 'Let's get the heck out of here!' today she says: 'Let's get the heck out of here! I've got claustrophobia.

  Robert Benchley

  Discovery, Atmosphere, Done

  Robert Benchley (2016). “My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew”, p.262, Pickle Partners Publishing

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