Apprehension Quote by Joseph Addison

His past was fairly blameless; few men could read the rolls of their life with less apprehension; yet he was humbled to the dust…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“All were in sorrow, or had been, or soon would be. It was the nature of things. Though on the surface is seemed every…

— George Saunders

Despite not knowing if what he felt from moment to moment would pass or last forever, he entered fully into his shifting states of…

— Diane Ackerman

What an unbearable creature he must have been in those days--and yet in those days he had been comparatively innocent. That was another mystery:…

— Graham Greene

With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because…

— Simone Weil

“All were in sorrow, or had been, or would be. It was the nature of things. Though on the surface it seemed every person…

— George Saunders

“He looked back on his past life, which had been so wretched. How had he been able to bear that terrible burden? He had…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Is it possible that evil is never total, that its victory, no matter how overwhelming, is never absolute? Consider this fallen man. He sought…

— Salman Rushdie

He had the unlucky capacity many men have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing the evil…

— Leo Tolstoy

“I believe that no man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping. For such is our natural horror of death, that small…

— David Hume

“that his current state of sorrow was not uniquely his, not at all, but, rather, its like had been felt, would yet be felt,…

— George Saunders

“He, on the other hand, who really could sympathize therewith, would have to despair of the value of life; were he to succeed in…

— Friedrich Nietzsche