Quotes About Dread

And it seems to me that everyone is like me—they're all afraid of the slightest movement . . . Everyone's sitting all closed up in his own glass cage waiting for something.

I fear no farther hell than that I feel.

Success is not guaranteed. Males in particular live in constant dread of losing their claim to manhood. Throughout history, males have been willing to risk and even sacrifice their lives, just so that people will say 'He's a real man!

No entiendo por qué tengo constantemente este presentimiento de un desastre inminente

I thought about diving in, about crashing headfirst into the clear shallow sea, my head splintering. I also thought about the time between diving and landing when I imagine all people changed their minds. For me it was only a flirtation, not serious, merely an acknowledgment of how much I was dreading the next hours. It cheered me that I could have that fantasy.

Sometimes I trembled From the horror of my abyss.

I did not fully understand the dread term "terminal illness" until I saw Heathrow for myself.

Our knowledge is a torch of smoky pine That lights the pathway but one step ahead Across a void of mystery and dread.

No progressive knowledge will ever medicine that dread misgiving of a mysterious and pathless power given to words of a certain import.

The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear.

He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn't yet lived.

Think not I dread to see my spirit fly, Through the dark gates of fell mortality; Death has no terrors when the life is true; 'Tis living ill that makes us fear to die.

You don't go home at night with it in your stomach, in your bones. In a few weeks, when you have seen everything, you will have been living with it for a long time, too. You will be just like us—only more so, because it is getting worse.

De haber habido algo a lo que disparar se habría sentido más tranquila; pero solo teníamos lo que acechara en nuestra imaginación.

Someone was breathing. Behind him. Someone was breathing on his neck. The knowledge froze him, froze the cry of "Jesus fuck!" in his throat. He turned with an incredible slowness..

I would rather receive a Pap smear from Captain Hook than venture out on New Year's Eve.

But they are murderers, madam! I am afraid of murderers! (Jeffery, the footman in The Pirate Next Door)

Watching, I dread my own womanhood, the day when I too will follow along carrying bags of groceries, my mission wherever I go to feed other people who take actual part in life while I am simply the catering staff.

Oh my God!" Sam said again, his voice shaking. I've given birth to something inhuman, Phoebe thought. A lamprey with row after row of teeth.

She said very quietly, "Mitch?" "What?" "There's somebody downstairs." "I know there is.

I lived on Dread — To Those who know The Stimulus there is In Danger — Other impetus Is numb — and Vitalless — As 'twere a Spur — upon the Soul — A Fear will urge it where To go without the Sceptre's aid Were Challenging Despair.

I lived on dread;

A horror so refined

The Times had announced that seven thousand pounds had been raised to send a party of Englishwomen to the Crimea as nurses. That, Lib had thought, with dread but also a sense of daring, I believe I could do that. She'd lost so much already, she was reckless. All