apprehension

Confidence is what we get when we take fear, face it and replace it.

Do you have any idea how mad you sound?___ndeed I do. I have in moments of doubt considered the question of my sanity._ (...)__nd?___hen I consider what a piece of work is man. How defective in reason, how mean his facilities, how ugly in form and movement, in action how like a devil, in apprehension how like a cow. The beauty of the world? The paragon of animals? To me the quintessence of dust.

Venture deep into the wilderness of lost thought to the point that you physically shiver with apprehension, and there you will find creativity

The world we see is a painting colored by our fears and desires.

I can attempt to stay on the fence. However, the problem is that the fence is a figment of my fear not a reality of my journey.

We live in wonder, blaze in a cycle of passion and apprehension.

To look beyond our horizons is to acknowledge that we__e hemmed ourselves in by creating them in the first place.

The anticipation of loss is much more frightening than the actual loss as anticipation leaves room for the imagination to create that which, in all likelihood, will never transpire.

What in the world would ever lead to me believe that life is a series of opportunities that are readily available to everyone else but me? What really leads me to believe such an atrocious lie is that I don__ believe in myself sufficiently to engage those opportunities in the first place.

What would behoove me to instantly declare God not to be God unless He followed my script in some tediously exacting manner? I must confess that I am less likely to believe that it__ a matter of some narcissistic demand that I freely pen my own script. Rather, I think it__ fear that I__ too inadequate to follow God__.

It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.

If you don't doubt it, be 'bout it. Intuition is soul's watchman.

I'm like my mother, she thought, I search my joy for signs of sorrow ahead.

Mark felt eyes on him as tight as a sniper's aim.

A person can hurry through or sleep walk through life, but whenever they stop to catch their breath or awaken from a long nap, they will find apprehension, disquiet, and fretfulness waiting their directed attention.

Apprehension of a painful or disagreeable recognition made me tremble. I am confident that it took no distinctness of shape, and that it was the revival for a few minutes of the terror of childhood.

The only time "early bloomer" has ever been applied to me is vis-a-vis my premature apprehension of the deep dread-of-existence thing. In all other cases, I plod and tromp along. My knuckles? Well dragged.

It is not for nothing that an ominous feeling often attaches itself to a procession. In films and stories we see spectacles forming in the street and parades coming from around the corner, and we know to greet then with distrust and apprehension: their intent is still to be revealed.