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Quotes About Trepidation

I'm not afraid, but I'm very nervous.
~ John Irving
The best I could say about third grade was that it was a more or less continuous state of dread.
~ Sonia Sotomayor
Kidd could feel an incipient hernia when he even thought about that night. . . .
~ John Sandford
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
~ Aristotle
We adore, we invoke, we seek to appease, only that which we fear.
~ Voltaire
This is the century of fear.
~ Albert Camus
I am made to tremble and I fear!
~ Pope John XXIII
Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
~ Honore de Balzac
I think people, unfortunately, do live in constant fear.
~ Marc Forster
Fear is uncertainty.
~ Eric Hoffer
The one thing we all always seem to live in is FEAR.
~ Unknown
He wasn't scared exactly, but he had that knife's edge thinness he used to get on the job, the sense that things could go either way.
~ Marcus Sakey
I'm scared of the future. I'm scared of the past. I'm nervous at the moment.
~ David Mitchell
It's not the actual crime that makes me want to leave, it's the possibility that it can happen any time, any second now, even in the next minute. That it might never happen at all, but I'll think it will happen any second now for the next ten years.
~ Marlon James
What are you scared of?" he asked me. I sighed really deeply, like it was totally hard for me to let my feelings out. "Everything," I told him. "I'm scared of everything.
~ Michael Thomas Ford
so often that she'd feared for
~ Min Jin Lee
I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.
~ Oliver Stone
I was afraid to board a streetcar because of the conductor; I was afraid to enter the Kabuki Theater for fear of the usherettes standing along the sides of the red-carpeted staircase at the main entrance; I was afraid to go into a restaurant because I was intimidated by the waiters furtively hovering behind me waiting for my plate to be emptied.
~ Osamu Dazai
people who know about such things insist there are only two basic emotions: Love and Fear. All other emotions, they say, are variations on either of these two themes. At every moment of every day we choose either love or fear.
~ Unknown
Cuanto más deseamos algo, mayor es nuestro miedo a no conseguirlo.
~ Peter Guber