Apprehension Quotes

168 quotes by 147 authors

This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical… — William Shakespeare
The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we… — Italo Calvino
Poetry is an intimate act. It's about bringing forth something that's inside you--whether it is a memory, a philosophical idea, a deep love for another… — Dorianne Laux
All right then," said the savage defiantly, I'm claiming the right to be unhappy." "Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and… — Aldous Huxley
Today we love what tomorrow we hate, today we seek what tomorrow we shun, today we desire what tomorrow we fear, nay, even tremble at… — Daniel Defoe
Some dangers are so spectacular and so much beyond normal experience that the mind refuses to accept them as real, and watches the approach of… — Arthur C. Clarke
And that is how we are. By strength of will we cut off our inner intuitive knowledge from admitted consciousness. This causes a state of… — D. H. Lawrence
Somewhere in the world there was a young woman with such splendid understanding that she'd see him entire, like a poem or story, and find… — John Barth
Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror. — Guy de Maupassant
Eight, sir; seven, sir; Six, sir; five, sir; Four, sir; Three, sir; Two, sir; one! Tenser, said the Tensor. Tenser, said the Tensor. Tension, apprehension,… — Alfred Bester
Abraham Zogoiby covered his face that night in August 1939 because he had been assailed by fear, [...] a sudden apprehension that the ugliness of… — Salman Rushdie
I belong to the 8% of the world population who calm their apprehension by drowning it in numbers. — Muriel Barbery
His past was fairly blameless; few men could read the rolls of their life with less apprehension; yet he was humbled to the dust by… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Iâ€™d discovered, after a lot of extreme apprehension about what spoons to use, that if you do something incorrect at table with a certain arrogance,… — Sylvia Plath
What is life? Thoughts and feelings arise, with or without our will, and we employ words to express them. We are born, and our birth… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere. — Harper Lee
I sensed only an instant of apprehension. She never raised an eyebrow at the question.. Such a brave girl. — Tite Kubo
Religion is the vision of something which stands beyond, behind, and within, the passing flux of immediate things; something which is real, and yet waiting… — Alfred North Whitehead
But Margaret was at an age when any apprehension, not absolutely based on a knowledge of facts, is easily banished for a time by a… — Elizabeth Gaskell
I have only danced my life. As a child I danced the spontaneous joy of growing things. As an adolescent, I danced with joy turning… — Isadora Duncan

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