"Words fluttered sideways and struck the object inches too low. Then one gave it up; then the idea sunk back again; then one became like most middle-aged people, cautious, furtive, with wrinkles between the eyes and a look of perpetual apprehension. For how could one express in words these emotions of the body? express that emptiness there? (She was looking at the drawing-room steps; they looked extraordinarily empty.) It was one's body feeling, not one's mind. The physical sensations that went with the bare look of the steps had become suddenly extremely unpleasant. To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain"...

Virginia Woolf - To the lighthouse

(apprehension, what a word...
1 a : the act or power of perceiving or comprehending b : the result of apprehending mentally : CONCEPTION
2: seizure by legal process : ARREST
3: suspicion or fear especially of future evil : FOREBODING)