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“Man may feel like a feeble and powerless pawn, at some moment in his life. This apprehension can come out of the blue, in the middle of the day, at the center of a public place, like a cerebral attack. Check mated by 'daily routine', he may feel trapped in a smothering set of circumstances and only a deconstruction of all impeding barriers can bring about a vital mental deliverance. ( "Check and mate" )”
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“Why some people feel more comfortable in the “margin” of society, may simply be that it imparts them more breathing space, shores up their identity, embodies a gateway to self-determination, and confers them a sense of sovereignty, allowing more time for stressless apprehension and thoughtful reflection. (“If he doesn't play ball » )”
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“When we start raising different inconsistent truths, life may tip into bewilderment and the brain may go haywire. The confrontation between what is, not is, and maybe is, might embed an enduring showdown, harboring an intense apprehension, and bring us sometimes unwittingly to our knees ("The hidden sides of his character" )”
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“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.”
― Sag Harbor
― Sag Harbor
“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.”
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“You can't live with such fears and keep on whistling. The waiting builds up in you like a tide. You start wanting it to be done with. You find yourself saying to the sky, Just do it. Do your worst. Get it over with.”
― The Year of the Flood
― The Year of the Flood
“To look beyond our horizons is to acknowledge that we’ve hemmed ourselves in by creating them in the first place.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
― Great Expectations
― Great Expectations
“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’s a matter of some narcissistic demand that I freely pen my own script. Rather, I think it’s fear that I’m too inadequate to follow God’s.”
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“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.”
― Dead Toad Scrolls
― Dead Toad Scrolls
“I have no interest in being safe. I do however, have every interest in being wise. The former is averse to going forward, while the latter is averse to anything but going forward.”
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“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’t believe in myself sufficiently to engage those opportunities in the first place.”
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“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.”
― On Writing
― On Writing
“It is a funny thing that for most men the whitest conscience is no protection from some apprehension in the presence of police.”
― Wanderers of Time
― Wanderers of Time
“The night sky was clear, but he drew clouds across it, combers that roiled like waves above him.”
― Arms from the Sea
― Arms from the Sea
“No one could escape that duty, and as you aged, you grew to crave that responsibility even as you sometimes resented it, that knowledge that your life was inextricable from another's, that a person marked their existence in part by their association with you.”
― To Paradise
― To Paradise
“What is left for him? He will after all form an alliance with the doctors, cooperate with the machines, with that Oncor and Mevatron, he will hand over his body to others, share its functions with others, entirely rationally, entirely in the spirit of Western civilization which treasures control.”
― Belladonna
― Belladonna
“I’m not all that certain that we can handle magnificence. And I wonder if that’s why we take great things and diminish them through our small stories and weak renderings.”
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“I have no dream,” I repeatedly tell myself. But what I’m really telling myself is that I’m too afraid of the dream that I have to admit that I have it.”
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“I’m worried. My heart is filled with uneasiness, apprehension, agitation.”
― The Selected Letters of Nikos Kazantzakis
― The Selected Letters of Nikos Kazantzakis
“If I don’t act upon that which I say I trust, I am doing neither and therefore I am accomplishing nothing.”
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“We always hold apprehensions..
of asking valid questions,
of knowing some truthful answers
and understanding the consequences.
The human nature and its vulnerability..
its disquiet and composure are always symbiotic.
Eventually, we end up deciding,
to remain in our convenience zone.”
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of asking valid questions,
of knowing some truthful answers
and understanding the consequences.
The human nature and its vulnerability..
its disquiet and composure are always symbiotic.
Eventually, we end up deciding,
to remain in our convenience zone.”
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“Through the rivers we must cross and the mountains we climb. They’ll be paths we go down in life, full of bumps, twist and turns, and apprehension. Doubt and fear will cross your mind, but will fade away with each step. You’ll win this emotional challenge. Emotional only because of people who insist, you can’t do something. Bring God with you, and see that blue sky appear, and your dreams come to be. If you think this is easier said than done, how would you know unless you've tried? In Jesus name. Amen.”
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“We tend to think too far ahead in our lives, and many of these thoughts are full of apprehension. Let these thoughts of fear, or doubt go and live for today. Situations never turn out just the way we imagine them and some never happen at all.”
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“You can spend the whole of your life moving to increasingly larger ‘boxes.’ However, while you might have relocated, you never moved.”
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“Now a cold awareness of the uncertainty of all life, no matter how careful the planning, hollowed emptily in the pit of her stomach.”
― Madeline Engle's Time Quintet (A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Titling Planet, An Acceptable Time)
― Madeline Engle's Time Quintet (A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Titling Planet, An Acceptable Time)
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