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Quotes About Apprehension

What she has always dreaded is here. It has come.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
In spite of the escalation, there was as yet no sense of an impending crisis.
~ Unknown
My mother repressed a shudder of apprehension, for, being more rapid in perception than my father, she grew alarmed on his account over things which only began to vex him a moment later. Whatever might cause him annoyance was first noticed by her, just as bad news of France is always known abroad sooner than among ourselves.
~ Marcel Proust
When a man hath confirmed his imagination to such an apprehension of grace and mercy as to be able, without bitterness, to swallow and digest daily sins, that man is at the very brink of turning the grace of God into lasciviousness, and being hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
~ John Owen
There is no knowing how or why dread comes on a parent. Of course, many times apprehension arises when there is no reason for it at all. And it comes most often to the parents of only children, parents who have indulged in black dreams of loss.
~ John Steinbeck
Joseph habitually scowled at furniture, expecting it to be impertinent, mischievous, or dusty.
~ John Steinbeck
She was suspicious of fun whether it involved dancing or singing or even laughter. She felt that people having a good time were wide open to the
~ John Steinbeck
Nedendir bilmem. Belki de herkes birbirinden korkuyor bu dünya da.
~ John Steinbeck
Donata Santori looked down at the dead body lying at her feet and thought, 'Damn, that can't be a good sign.
~ Unknown
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
~ Aristotle
Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
~ Florence Nightingale
Hey, we all have our fear. Mine is bugs and lobsters!
~ Brooke Burke
I'm wary of a certain human nature. More than anything, I fear treason.
~ Mylène Farmer
Only one form of contagion travels faster than a virus. And that's fear.
~ Dan Brown
Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.
~ William Shakespeare
It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.
~ J. K. Rowling
It is what we fear that happens to us.
~ Oscar Wilde
There are people who are so cautious that they are careful not to waste their fear.
~ C.J. Langenhoven
An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
~ John Dryden
This is the century of fear.
~ Albert Camus
Lucy: Do you think you have Pantophobia, Charlie Brown? Charlie: I don't know, what is pantophobia? Lucy: The fear of Everything. Charlie: THAT'S IT!!!
~ Charles M. Schulz
In doubt, fear is the worst of prophets.
~ Statius
I'm very much afraid of being mad - that's my one fear.
~ Sting
Be wary then; best safety lies in fear.
~ William Shakespeare