Quotes About Apprehension

Once you know how completely and suddenly the earth can open up at your feet and the worst can happen, it also, paradoxically, leaves you more afraid of everything else.

I had great apprehension in locking lips with Namit on the screen. I come with my own prerogatives.

I realized the place was awash in noise. The toneless systems, the jangle and skid of carts, the loudspeaker and coffee-making machines, the cries of children. And over it all, or under it all, a dull and unlocatable roar, as of some form of swarming life just outside the range of human apprehension.

I want to immerse myself in American magic and dread.

I once held my existence dear With every breath a welcome chore But now my days are spent in fear Of when my days will be no more

Yes: I repeat it this day. I know no effectual remedy for the love of self, but a believing apprehension of the love of Christ.

The important thing to note is that we humans have the power to "see," to be directly aware of, to directly experience a wide range of things, many of which are not subject to sensory awareness with the five senses.

Religion is dangerous when it becomes absolutist and Manichean, that is, when it mistakes what always must be a finite and conditioned apprehension of the transcendent for the transcendent ground itself,

They had always been soft-spoken. Because they had always been afraid.

When we have no trust, the vacant space that is left becomes filled with fear.

Relief and fear were equal in her.

She saw Walter Starr, looking as if he were sure he was unwelcome. "Why, Walter!" she whispered, and hurried to meet him. He put out his hand, looking frightened, and said, "Mrs. Follet, I just couldn't ever…

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

I have this weird, bad feeling," said another boy. "In my feeling parts. Like something bad is going to happen.

His innocence could still frighten me.

If you're not nervous, son, then something is wrong.

Pointing the finger at Ross Bannick was a terrifying act, not because she was afraid of being wrong, but because she feared the man himself.

Of all points of faith, the being of a God is, to my own apprehension, encompassed with most difficulty, and yet borne in upon our minds with most power.

I'm not afraid, but I'm very nervous.

Look at that. She think I got siphlus and TB and a hard-on and I gonna cut her up with a razor and lif her purse. Ooo-wee.

Mr. Gonzalez watched Mr. Zalatimo probing his long index finger high into one of his nostrils. What would this one do? His feet tingled with fear.

paranoia is just a heightened sense of awareness

A burnt child dreads the fire.

It was never a big leap from "unfamiliar" to "suspected