Apprehension

Famous quotes containing the word apprehension:

“Consider how the speechless, invisible gods
Ruled us before, from over Asia, by
Our merest apprehension of their will.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

“Beauty ... is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison.”
—Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)

“It is his weakness to be proud: he derives, from a comparison of his own extraordinary mind with the dwarfish intellects that surround him, an intense apprehension of the nothingness of human life.”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)