Quotes about Apprehension

What anxiety when one is not sure of one's doubts or wonders: are these actually doubts?

A fear is a reaction to a specific danger, to which the individual can make a specific adjustment. But what characterizes anxiety is the feeling of diffuseness and uncertainty and the experience of helplessness toward the threat.

Anxiety is fear about what may happen in the future, and it occurs only when the mind is imagining what the future may bring.

We often get anxious about things that are important to us.

Anxiety is fear of one's self.

fear is a visceral response to imminent jeopardy, real or perceived, threatening to come crashing down on you with devastating results.

Worry, at its core, is the repetitious experience of a mind attempting to generate a feeling of security about the future, failing, then trying again and again and again – as if the very effort of worrying might somehow help forestall disaster.

every new experience and in every new environment an individual will feel some degree of fear.

Worrying and anxiety go together, but worry is not an emotion; it’s the thinking part of anxiety. Worry is described as a chain of negative thoughts about bad things that might happen in the future.

There is a mental fear, which provokes others of us to see the images of witches in a neighbor’s yard and stampedes us to burn down this house. And there is a creeping fear of doubt, doubt of what we have been taught, of the validity of so many things we had long since taken for granted to be durable and unchanging. It has become more difficult than ever to distinguish black from white, good from evil, right from wrong.

what me worry?

The condition of mankind is to be weary of what we do know, and afraid of what we do not.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

Anxiety is fear about what may happen in the future, and it occurs only when the mind is imagining what the future may bring. But when your attention is on the here and now, the actions which need to be done in the present have their best chance of being successfully accomplished, and as a result the future will become the best possible present.

Worrying and anxiety go together, but worry is not an emotion; it’s the thinking part of anxiety.