Apprehension Quote by William Shakespeare

The sense of death is most in apprehension.

— William Shakespeare

There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment…

— Soren Kierkegaard

Again, somehow, one saw life, a pure bead. I lifted the pencil again, useless though I knew it to be. But even as I…

— Virginia Woolf

The Fear of Death often proves Mortal.

— Joseph Addison

“To admit that species generally become rare before they become extinct—to feel no surprise at the comparative rarity of one species with another, and…

— Charles Darwin

For watching death, and above all, after death; not death in battle, but death after battle, brings one to certain indifferences that are also…

— Mary Butts

Death is like thunder in two particulars; we are alarmed, at the sound of it; and it is formidable only from that which preceded…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present…

— Muriel Spark

Death is when the monsters get you.

— Stephen King

In death itself there can be nothing terrible, for the act of death annihilates sensation; but there are many roads to death, and some…

— Charles Caleb Colton

A humane and generous concern for every individual, his health and his fulfillment, will do more to soothe the savage heart than the fear…

— Ramsey Clark

“Let thy chief terror be of thine own soul: There, 'mid the throng of hurrying desires That trample on the dead to seize their…

— George Eliot