SUSPENSE
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Of all the conditions to which the heart is subject, suspense is one that most gnaws and cankers into the frame. One little month of suspense, when it involves death, we are told by an eye-witness, is sufficient to plough fixed lines and furrows in a convict of five-and-twenty,—sufficient to dash the brown hair with gray, and to bleach the gray to white.—BULWER-LYTTON
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But not long; for in the tedious minutes' exquisite interval—I'm on the rack ; for sure the greatest evil man can know bears no proportion to this dread suspense.—FROUDE
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Suspense, the only insupportable misfortune of life.—HENRY ST. JOHN
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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of a spider.—SWIFT, Thoughts on Various Subjects
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