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Quotes About Apprehension

What is the matter?" asked the passenger, then, with mildly quavering speech. "Who wants me? Is it Jerry?
~ Charles Dickens
Apprehension of a painful or disagreeable recognition made me tremble. I am confident that it took no distinctness of shape, and that it was the revival for a few minutes of the terror of childhood.
~ Charles Dickens
Curlicuing around the note allows a singer to mimic the sense of event in soul music, the sense that something is happening which has not happened before and cannot be repeated, by mimicking the apprehension of soul, those moments when singers dramatize their struggle to bring out of themselves what lies buried in them, inaccessible, until this moment, even to themselves.
~ Greil Marcus
Night, the mother of fear and mystery, was coming upon me.
~ H. G. Wells
You really are a scary man,no really! If I had boots I would be quaking in them.
~ James Patterson
Where was the catch? 'Cause I knew one was coming.
~ James Patterson
had a sneaking suspicion that
~ James Patterson
The haughtiness suddenly fell from Hamster's face. He looked at us fearfully for a long second.
~ James Patterson
Iggy said. "Be very afraid.
~ James Patterson
Here are some other people I don't trust as far as I can throw a truckload of pianos.
~ James Patterson
He shook his head. "Just — beware of Mr. Chu. He makes Itex look like Sesame Street.
~ James Patterson
I think fear of the unknown is the scariest thing.
~ Katie Featherston
We human beings get nervous if we don't know what's going on. It's the rule for creating scary stories: the unknown is always more frightening than the known.
~ Naomi Alderman
I hate the unknown.
~ Mike Conley Jr.
The passion to be reckoned upon, is fear.
~ Thomas Hobbes
I had always been afraid.
~ Thomas Ligotti
The tone of his father's voice made Josh afraid to ask what it was he wanted to talk about, so Josh only
~ Tim Green
That night at Carnegie Hall was a great experience. When the thing was first put up to me I was a little dubious, not knowing just what would be expected of us.
~ Benny Goodman
Hearn's death was happily smudged, or at least on the surface, but ever since the second ambush he had been feeling the apprehension of a man in a dream who knows he is guilty, is waiting for his punishment, and cannot remember his crime.
~ Norman Mailer
trepidation.
~ Og Mandino
You ever get ill at ease? said Rawlins. About what? I dont know. About anything. Just ill at ease. Sometimes. If you're someplace you aint supposed to be I guess you'd be ill at ease. Should be anyways. Well suppose you were ill at ease and didnt know why. Would that mean that you might be someplace you wasnt supposed to be and didnt know it?
~ Cormac McCarthy
Farid had brought an invisible guest with him. Fear.
~ Cornelia Funke
Bad news? Oh, festering fungus! What sort of bad news?
~ Cornelia Funke
Everything, you see, is frightened of something
~ Cressida Cowell