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Quotes About Trepidation

The stem, when the hand is stretched out to pluck the flower, quivers, and seems at once to shrink back, and present itself. The human body has something of this trepidation at the moment when the mysterious fingers of death are about to gather the soul.
~ Victor Hugo
The sensation of falling was the worst part.
~ Cassandra Clare
I can't stand up in front of people. It just fills me with horror.
~ Martin McDonagh
I am bundle of nerves riddled with irrational fears.
~ Tori Spelling
I'm nervous and awkward.
~ Dylan O'Brien
I like that - I like those little nervous jitters.
~ Alex Bregman
I get nervous for everything - literally everything.
~ Taylor Swift
If I ever completely lost my nervousness I would be frightened half to death.
~ Paul Lynde
Every direction I could see to go was just a different nightmare.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Carney spied a patrolman across the street, drinking a Coca-Cola through a straw with bovine serenity. For a moment, he entertained the ridiculous proposition of a Negro calling a cop to complain he was being threatened by two white men.
~ Colson Whitehead
Obstipuit, retroque pedem cum voce repressit: inprovisum aspris veluti qui sentibus anguem pressit humi nitens, trepidusque repente refugit attollentem iras et caerula colla tumentem; haud secus Androgeos visu tremefactus abibat.
~ Virgil
Memory flashed, of a blue dress and a face glancing up at him, and eagerness and trepidation exchanged blows on the battlefield of his heart
~ Greg Keyes
Bazen de korkusunun nedenleriyle flört ederdi. En karanl?k ve dar sokaklar? seçer ve cüretkarca yürürken ad?mlar?n?n çevresindeki sessizlik onu rahats?z eder, çevresindeki karanl?k siluetler onu rahats?z eder, alçak, kaçamak bir gülüÅŸ onu yaprak gibi titretirdi.
~ James Joyce
For a brief moment he glimpsed a new destiny opening before his eyes, a window into a future he had never imagined for himself, a path to an entirely different life, and yet just as quickly as the window opened it closed, slammed shut as much by long years of training as by a feeling of trepidation.
~ James Luceno
You really are a scary man,no really! If I had boots I would be quaking in them.
~ James Patterson
The house was on fire, i greeted them tersely. In case you're interested. they both glanced up overhead as if to make sure the house was still standing. Fang sniffed, smelling the smoke. It's out, right? he said
~ James Patterson
SCHOOL—WHAT COULD BE SCARIER THAN THAT?
~ James Patterson
I think fear of the unknown is the scariest thing.
~ Katie Featherston
I had always been afraid.
~ Thomas Ligotti
I tell you, I feel like a real novice as far as horror goes.
~ Lawrence Kasdan
The Master replied, "The person who would wrestle a tiger bare-handed or march across the Yellow River,106 and who would go to his death without regret—this person I would not take along. It would have to be someone who would approach any situation with trepidation, and who would be fond of planning with an eye to success.
~ Confucius
The worst fears are always underneath us, hidden, shaking the ground we wish to be firm and safe.
~ Cornelia Funke
Whatever you think this is going to be like," she whispers, "it's going to be worse.
~ Chelsea Cain
The weather today is increasing concern followed by full-blown dread.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Diary, 2003