Apprehension Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy ambition, of…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Were a man's sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life, it would generally be found that he had suffered more…

— Joseph Addison

He believed that he must, that he could and would recover the good things, the happy things, the easy tranquil things of life. He…

— Saul Bellow

But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy ambition, of…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“today he felt life, youth, people slipping away from him, without being able to hold on to any of them, left with the blind…

— Albert Camus

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

“Too high for common selfishness, he could At times resign his own for others’ good, But not in pity, not because he ought, But…

— Lord Byron

He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion…

— Edmund Burke

Strong mental agitation and disturbance was no novelty to him, even before his late sufferings. It never is, to obstinate and sullen natures; for…

— Charles Dickens

“He himself, on the other hand, with characteristic humility, avowed his belief that if Providence should see fit to remove him, it would be…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

He had long ago learned that society imposes insults that must be borne, comforted by the knowledge that in this world there comes a…

— Mario Puzo

As time passed and he grew to know people better, he began to think of himself as an extraordinary man, one set apart from…

— Sherwood Anderson