Quotes About Dread

Ce le reproÅŸezi tu de fapt, Oscar? – Le e fric? de mine, Tanti Roz. N-au curajul s?-mi vorbeasc?. Åži cu cât le e lor mai fric?, cu atât am ÅŸi eu impresia c? sunt un mosntru. De ce par atât de terorizaÅ£i?

I needed to hire someone to manage all this, but I dreaded it. It's not like you just hire one person. You hire their family and their problems, their illnesses and financial issues and weird habits and friends. You're forced to share a bathroom with them. It's like sleeping with someone without the benefits.

Concordia experienced a profound rush of relief. He was safely home. Now, perhaps she would be able to shake off the feeling of dread that has descended on her after he had left.

There are a lot of things in this world to be afraid of, but a dead body isn't one of them.

All violence here is born of fear.

I live in fear of making an honest mistake in conversation followed by some kind of Maoist-style recrimination session.

Thin ribbons of fear snake bluely through you like a system of rivers. We need a cloudburst or soothing landscape fast, to still this panic. Maybe a field of dracaena, or a vast stand of sugar pines—generous, gum-yielding trees—to fill our minds with vegetable wonder and keep dread at bay.

And like everybody else in the world, his heart lodged in his throat and tried to choke him when he saw Mackey Sanders scampering along the top of the giant amplifier. But when he saw Mackey fall off, it threatened to stop.

When fear is allowed to flourish in its dark and lonely medium, then any evil that can be conceived by the fearful imagination will emerge.

Doubt is the enemy of mania. It's trying to get aloft strung with weights. The moment I like writing is three sentences in, when somehow those weights drop away, and you can invent. I cannot tell you the dread I have.

Horrific things should be presented as horrific.

I turned down dates because I dreaded sitting in front of a plateful of food.

Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death.

I'd rather go to the dentist... but I'm going.

I can never go to a clairvoyant. I'd be too afraid of what they might tap into.

I dread the promotion part of my job. It's agony, especially compared to the private, at-home joy of writing. But being a grown-up means doing every part of the larger task.

Throughout my time working in restaurants, I developed an illogical dread of some basic kitchen tasks. None of them - picking and chopping parsley, peeling and mincing garlic, browning pans of ground meat - were particularly difficult. But at the scale required in a professional kitchen, they felt Sisyphean.

We fear the thing we want the most.

Tell us your phobias, and we will tell you what you are afraid of.

Suspense is worst than disappointment.

Really, take it from me: it is always the unknown that is most frightening.

war was long stretches of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.

in a flat voice that did not bode well for either man.

Knowing what he had to do, even getting on with it, did not stop him being afraid.