Quotes About Dread

smiling in a way that made me frightened.

Oh my God," he said. "Oh my God." "You'll see him soon," Parker said.

There are many who don't wish to sleep for fear of nightmares. Sadly, there are many who don't wish to wake for the same fear.

Oh God. Why, oh why, did I have to be the one to deliver this news? Why couldn't I be locked away in my room or the library doing something enjoyable, like homework?

If you can think of anything more terrifying than that happening to you in the middle of the night, then let's hear about it.

Horror is the 'removal' of masks.

Besides, that thing was waiting for him. Waiting for him—

Death that makes nature quake with dread! today we are gods, tomorrow dust, creatures of poverty and pride, today hope fondly flatters us, tomorrow – man, where are you now? Your hours have barely fled away into the pit of chaos, your time fades like a dream at the new day.

He was afraid that his body would come loose, all his bones spilling out like a building collapsing, like a picket fence clattering apart.

POLLARD HAD NEVER been good in the morning. Every morning for as long as she could remember—months, maybe years—she woke feeling depleted, and dreading the pain of beginning her day. She drank two cups of black coffee just to give herself a pulse. But

It was almost like I was expecting to get crushed.

Sure, it was nice now, but eventually there would be running and screaming and blood on the floor.

I could not believe this. I was going to be hacked to shreds to the accompaniment of applause.

Existential nausea comes from feeling trapped. It is an affect state resulting from the feeling that the future has only bad options.

Sometimes I get so scared. Fear is a form of alertness.

Even now dread still struck her down sometimes if she found herself counting on things being fine

Panic. Panic. PANIC.

But I have noticed that those who continually dread ill luck and fear it will overtake them, have no time to take advantage of any good fortune that comes their way.

The Witch was too much afraid of the dark to dare go in Dorothy's room at night to take the shoes, and her dread of water was greater than her fear of the dark.

We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die.

The motive of fear is the be-all and end-all of religion.

Terror is everywhere the beginning of religion.

They (religions) dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversions of the duperies on which they live.

He only can create the greatest imaginable beauty who has endured all imaginable pangs, for only when we have seen and foreseen what we dread shall we be rewarded by that dazzling unforeseen wing-footed wanderer.