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Quotes About Trepidation

Prepare yourself for something dreadful.
~ Jane Austen
I delight in what I fear.
~ Shirley Jackson
He began to breathe deep. He could feel himself breathing deep, as if each time his insides were afraid that next breath they would not be able to give far enough and that something terrible would happen, and that all the time he could look down at himself breathing, at his chest, and see no movement at all, like when dynamite first begins, gathers itself for the now Now NOW, the shape of the outside of the stick does not change
~ William Faulkner
They are frightened of the air.
~ William Golding
looking nervous. "I had a
~ Danielle Steel
Did you hear it? Just about, I said, trembling nervously. That's not good enough. She frowned. Just about will kill you.
~ Darren Shan
To be honest, I'm scared to death of rollercoaster rides.
~ Liam Neeson
I'm constantly on the verge of a panic attack.
~ Camille Rowe
Get your stuff," he said, hurrying past. "We got a wild one." Robert turned to watch him go, and his air of relaxed confidence seemed to drain out and puddle at his feet. "Is that Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Does he mean, um—" "It's probably nothing," I said. "Just a routine machete beheading or something." Chase goggled at me for a moment. Then he turned pale, gulped, and finally nodded. "Okay," he said.
~ Jeff Lindsay
bundle of nerves, swaddled in a blanket of panic.
~ Jen Lancaster
I'm a bundle of nerves, swaddled in a blanket of panic.
~ Jen Lancaster
I'm afraid of animals.
~ JoJo
He felt a stab of satisfaction at the way her cheeks colored and her eyes darkened with trepidation. Her emotions showed readily on her face. She had translucent skin that colored easily, and it would be tempting to spend his time provoking a reaction out of her. She was a match for him in more ways than one.
~ Colleen Coble
So much alarmed that she is quite alarming
~ Lord Byron
Would have liked a minute of not being nervous, but ended up even worse...
~ Unknown
Hate that feeling when your stomach gets butterflies and all knotted up from being nervous.
~ Unknown
I'm sick of waking up & being scared of what the day will bring.
~ Unknown
Deep down inside ourselves, we are all scared of something.
~ Tim Walters
When danger can be sensed but not identified, then everyone and everything becomes a source of concern; the world from horizon to horizon seems hostile.
~ Dean Koontz
What has this new generation to offer the world? Only the fruits of their fear.
~ John Banville
though I was afraid of many things, the thing I feared most mortally was being afraid. I
~ John Buchan
Relief and fear were equal in her.
~ James Agee
the sight of it made Vasiht'h nervous. Unavoidably. Utterly. Completely. He needed more adverbs to describe his anxiety over the charge he'd been given
~ M.C.A. Hogarth
His innocence could still frighten me.
~ Madeline Miller