Quotes About Apprehension

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

Every day I wake up a little afraid. Only a fool is never afraid.

If you wish to fear nothing consider that everything is to be feared.

Tell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of

Me doy cuenta de que siempre temí esta explicación, pero también me doy cuenta de que mi mayor temor era que no llegara.

el miedo a las situaciones violentas es el que mayor inquietud me produce.

We don't have a good vocabulary for these experiences. They come in variations and degrees, from a slight apprehension of the strangeness of being to the ravishing dissolution of boundaries called enlightenment. A mystical experience, a peak experience, a blurring or merge between self and other, a liberation from the limits of space and time.

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.

I don't mean to make you nervous, but unfortunately I have to.

We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.

The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

We are terrified by the idea of being terrified.

I'm scared of the future. I'm scared of the past. I'm nervous at the moment.

I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses.

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.

Frankly, I didn't know what station security was going to do about it, either. In fact, I'm sure station security was now shitting itself almost as hard as I metaphorically was.

I just had a bad feeling about the little shit.

If this went wrong I was going to feel really stupid. The Targets would finally show up and be all "What the hell was it trying to do to itself?

When you surrender to apprehension, or worry, or nerves, you effectively place a filter over your senses and are no longer able to see what's right in front of you.

When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of the elements, not an aspiration of the breeze, but hints some cause for a lover's apprehension.

While there's life, there's fear.

A Russian, the poet David Samoilov, said later, "We were all expecting war. But we were not expecting that war.

Then she stepped through the door....She stopped so hard that Rainey bumped into her from behind. She went cold. If she'd been a dog, she would have dug her paws in and laid her ears flat and backed out, growling.

She knows that feeling too. Of believing that each time someone says her name, it's to tell her that something bad has happened.