Quotes About Apprehension

Oh, the dread. The horrible, awful, dreadful, dready dread.

And it's best if you know a good thing is going to happen, like an eclipse or getting a microscope for Christmas. And it's bad if you know a bad thing is going to happen, like having a filling or going to France. But I think it is worst if you don't know whether it is a good thing or a bad thing which is going to happen.

His existence is not a question of argument but of apprehension. Either you apprehend God, or you do not.

I had not expected him to be in the least senile, but the sharpness of his manner may have been amplified by some apprehension, shared by myself, that changes must have taken place in both of us during the last twenty years, which could prove mutually disenchanting.

Already she fancied she could see the shadow of tomorrow faintly clouding his face...

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

Que no existe ningún otro sentido aparte de los cinco 424b 22 —me refiero a vista, oído, olfato, gusto y tacto—

Caro sat without speaking, turning toward him her look that was neither sullen nor expectant but soberly attentive; and, once, a glance in which tenderness and apprehension were great and indivisible, giving unbearable, excessive immediacy to the living of these moments. Paul had seen that look before, when they first lay down together at the inn beyond Avebury Circle.

Everything is worse...if you think something is looking at you.

Everything is worse," he said, looking at Eleanor, "if you think something is looking at you.

Other people's eyes are limitless and that's what scares me.

don't like the sound of that," says Suze at last.

To him who is in fear everything rustles.

Be more wary of the fearful than of the brave.

Maybe ever'body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.

Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings.

It is a funny thing that for most men the whitest conscience is no protection from some apprehension in the presence of police.

The anticipation of what they will do to you is every bit as sickening in a dream as when it is really going to happen.

I was constantly in fear, metaphorically speaking, of getting a smack.

A foretold misfortune, when at last it occurs, is ten, is a hundred times harder to endure than one we did not expect. All during our apprehensions, we lived through it in advance, and when it happens these past torments are added to the present ones, and together they form a mass whose weight is intolerable.

I come out of streets where life itself--life itself!--depends on timing more infinitesimal than the split second, where apprehension must be swifter than the speed of light.

Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.

She shifted in her chair, eyeing her front door with trepidation as she began to wonder if something might be wrong. What if he'd been hurt somewhere—if he'd been in an automobile accident or, more bizarre but nonetheless

I hated singing and getting up in front of crowds.