Quotes About Apprehension

Quem parte treme, quem regressa teme.

When you're in this state of mind you are constantly 'on edge'.

Now that I've seen what Mennus is capable of, I'm even more worried about her. He's a genuine nitcase.

What are you scared of?" he asked me. I sighed really deeply, like it was totally hard for me to let my feelings out. "Everything," I told him. "I'm scared of everything.

The concern that some women show at the absence of their husbands, does not arise from their not seeing them and being with them, but from their apprehension that their husbands are enjoying pleasures in which they do not participate, and which, from their being at a distance, they have not the power of interrupting.

Specific terrors.

There's nothing to fear but fear itself

I begin to smell a rat.

Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them," said Epictetus

so often that she'd feared for

Oh yeah, that's the one who kept watching me as if she was waiting for me to grow fangs and try to eat her. I couldn't help it—I used my claws to scratch my nose. Her eyes almost popped out of their sockets.

Worry is a state of mind based on fear.

Panic---a deep abiding, free-floating anxiety, often without any reason or logical basis.

The worst thing about fear is what it does to you when you try to hide it.

Artos is afraid of you, and I begin to understand why.

Jerry's fortune cookie said: "Tension, apprehension and dissension have begun.

They have,' she said, 'the uniformity of their insecurity.

In many cases your imagination is much more effective than what can be shown. It primes you to know something is about to happen - the anticipation and anxiety is worse than what ends up happening.

I was afraid to board a streetcar because of the conductor; I was afraid to enter the Kabuki Theater for fear of the usherettes standing along the sides of the red-carpeted staircase at the main entrance; I was afraid to go into a restaurant because I was intimidated by the waiters furtively hovering behind me waiting for my plate to be emptied.

I was afraid to go into a restaurant because I was intimidated by the waiters furtively hovering behind me waiting for my plate to be emptied. Most of all I dreaded paying a bill-my awkwardness when I handed over the money after buying something did not arise from my stinginess, but from excessive tension, excessive embarrassment, excessive uneasiness and apprehension.

To be alive. To be alive. An intolerably immense undertaking before which one can only gasp in apprehension.

A sensation of helplessness, as if it were utterly impossible to go on living. Painful waves beat relentlessly on my heart, as after a thunderstorm the white clouds frantically scud across the sky. A terrible emotion — shall I call it an apprehension — wrings my heart only to release it, makes my pulse falter, and chokes my breath. At times everything grows misty and dark before my eyes, and I feel that the strength of my whole body is oozing away through my finger tips.

My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going to be scared.

My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.