Your vigor for life appalls me.
Our courage is greater to dare a visible than an imagined danger. A visible danger rouses our energies to meet or avert it; a fancied peril appalls from its presenting nothing to be resisted. Thus, a panic is, usually, a sudden going over to the enemy of our imagination. All is then lost, for we have not only to fight against that enemy, but our imagination as well.
I have not worked at all. . . Nothing seems worth putting down - I seem to have nothing to say - it appalls me but that is the way it is.
The way animals were and are abused appalls me to this very day.
Donald Trump appalls me. I won't be shy about that.
My Brother starv'd between two Walls,His Children's Cry my Soul appalls
I don't know what it is about fecundity that so appalls. I suppose it is the teeming evidence that birth and growth, which we value, are ubiquitous and blind, that life itself is so astonishingly cheap, that nature is as careless as it is bountiful, and that with extravagance goes a crushing waste that will one day include our own cheap lives.
It appalls me that the people who decide what Americans will be watching on the tube have never been to the United States. Not the real United States.
I was raised to want to work for a living. The idea of just sitting around or going shopping every day appalls me.
