Apprehension Quote by Eudora Welty

“The suspense: the fearful, acute suspense: of standing idly by while the life of one we dearly love, is trembling in the balance; the…

— Charles Dickens

“The danger, when not seen, has the imperfect vagueness of human thought. The fear grows shadowy; and Imagination, the enemy of men, the father…

— Joseph Conrad

“Life is stranger than any of us expected, There is a somber, imponderable fate. Enigma rules, and the heart has no certainty.”

— Richard Eberhart

“The reason we don’t want to feel is that feeling exposes the tragedy of our world and the darkness of our hearts.”

— Dan Allender

The appalling and shameful scene ("spectacle", Fr.) of disarray and illogicality that manifest itself in the thought and deeds of men, will no longer…

— African Spir

“I felt the kind of acute anticipation that a child might experience at a carnival, where each lurid attraction incites fantastic speculations, while unexpected…

— Thomas Ligotti

“The whole plot was a sinister drollery, the simple delight of stirring up great crowds to die and kill, of one who could not…

— William Bolitho

“It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their…

— Oscar Wilde

“To feeling no shame in fear, no doubt in survival, and no silence in anger.”

— Cristy C. Road

“...in an area such as this the possibility of violence for the sake of robbery or even mere amusement is always something to be…

— K.W. Jeter

“It is a mistake to believe that the decisive moments of a life when its direction changes for ever must be marked by sentimental…

— Pascal Mercier

“We pursue our own solitary passions and seldom look up, seldom sense that it is we ourselves who form the swelling flood of history,…

— Thomas A. Day