{"quotes":[{"text":"Do you have any idea how mad you sound?’‘Indeed I do. I have in moments of doubt considered the question of my sanity.’ (...)‘And?’‘Then 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.","author":"Paul Hoffman","tags":["action","apprehension","beauty","bosco","cale","consider","crazy","devil","doubt","facilities","form","four","idea","indeed","insane","last","life","mad","man","men","moments-of-doubt","movement","people","piece-of-work","question","quintessence-of-dust","sanity","things","tomas","true","ugly","world"],"id":30914,"author_id":"Paul+Hoffman"},{"text":"The world we see is a painting colored by our fears and desires.","author":"Tim Fargo","tags":["appreciation","apprehension","awareness","comprehension","consciousness","desire","desires","fear","fears","grasp","knowledge","perception","perceptions","reality","realization","recognition","understanding"],"id":41863,"author_id":"Tim+Fargo"},{"text":"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.","author":"Eudora Welty","tags":["apprehension","distrust","film","intent","parade","procession","spectacle","stories","street"],"id":43681,"author_id":"Eudora+Welty"},{"text":"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.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["anticipation","anxiety","apprehension","depression","exaggerate","fear","imagination","inflate","panic","paranoia","paranoid","transpire"],"id":76110,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Comfort came in and stood with an appearance of guilt and shame. Her head bent, her eyes soaked with tears, her hands and legs, vibrating like a guiter string as perspiration covered her entire body, she felt like disappearing into the thin air, maybe to another mind creating world.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["apprehension","cry","crying","fear","guilt","michael-bassey-johnson","punishment","sin","stealing","sympathetic","sympathy","tears"],"id":90131,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"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.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["apprehension","fear","fearful","frightened","inadequate","lies","opportunities","opportunity","possibilities","self-confidence","self-esteem"],"id":93744,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"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.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["acceptable","accomplishment","account","accounts","adeptness","admissible","agony","aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","appreciation","apprehension","awareness","be-acquainted-with","be-conversant-with","be-familiar-with","be-up-to-speed-on","be-versed-in","benighted","book","books","brookable","capability","capacity","cognition","cognizance","command","comprehend","comprehension","consciousness","cultivated","cultured","desolation","despair","discomfort","distress","educated","education","endurable","enlightened","entertain","entertaining","entertainment","erudite","erudition","escape","escapism","essay","essays","expertise","expertness","fiction","funny","grasp","grief","have-a-grasp-of","have-knowledge-of","have-learned","have-mastered","have-memorized","heartache","heartbreak","hilarious","humor","humorous","humour","ignorance","ignorant","illiterate","inexperienced","insufferable","insupportable","intolerable","joke","jokes","know","knowledgable","knowledge","knowledgeable","learned","learning","literature","man-of-letters","manageable","mastery","men-of-letters","misery","narrative","narratives","nonfiction","novel","overpowering","pain","perception","proficiency","quotations","quotes","realization","sadness","satire","scholarly","scholarship","schooling","skill","sorrow","stories","story","sufferable","suffering","supportable","sustainable","tolerable","too-much","torment","torture","unacceptable","unbearable","understand","understanding","uneducated","unendurable","unenlightened","unhappiness","uninformed","unknowledgeable","unlearned","unlettered","unmanageable","unread","unschooled","unsophisticated","untaught","untrained","untutored","unworldly","via-dolorosa","well-educated","well-informed","well-read","wisdom","woman-of-letters","women-of-letters","wretchedness","writer","writers"],"id":114644,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"If you don't doubt it, be 'bout it. Intuition is soul's watchman.","author":"T.F. Hodge","tags":["apprehension","doubt","good-feeling","hesitation","intuition","real"],"id":176843,"author_id":"T.F.+Hodge"},{"text":"What we understand and love understands and loves us also.","author":"Robert Walser","tags":["apprehension","empathy","love","understanding"],"id":204125,"author_id":"Robert+Walser"},{"text":"To look beyond our horizons is to acknowledge that we’ve hemmed ourselves in by creating them in the first place.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["apprehension","aspirations","calling","destination","destiny","dreams","fear","goals","hemmed","horizons","impossibilities","impossible","imprisoned","journey","life","living","passion","possibilities","possible","prison","self-defeat"],"id":209192,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":22,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}