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Quotes About Dread

?imdi kim bilir nas?l s?k?c? bir ya?am bekliyordu?
~ Dino Buzzati
Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.
~ Dirk Benedict
Because he knows that the ghost has come back. And with it, the monster.
~ Don Winslow
Write about what you're afraid of.
~ Donald Barthelme
Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles.
~ Jean Toomer
Would not the sight of a single enemy airplane be enough to induce a formidable panic? Normal life would be unable to continue under the constant threat of death and imminent destruction.
~ Giulio Douhet
Life is a hideous thing.
~ H. P. Lovecraft
It's not the end that I fear with each breath- It's life that scares me to death.
~ Tim McIlrath
Love of life is born of the awareness of death, of the dread of it.
~ Ian Fleming
Life is first boredom, then fear.
~ Philip Larkin
I'd sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
impending, weightless doom.
~ Jennifer Niven
All of this took about a minute, but time stretches out when you're witnessing an abomination.
~ Jeremy Robert Johnson
Only by massive denial, repression of affect, and severe numbing of our human faculties and sensitivities could a person not feel a sense of remorse, apprehension, and dread.
~ Jerry S. Piven
But perhaps this is what normality is: a complex of dread and terror which compels the psyche to deny and restructure reality. Those who cannot ensconce themselves within social delusions either distort reality and hallucinate their own mirages, or they go mad.
~ Jerry S. Piven
Me asomo a la ventana, con temor de ver lo que no quiero ver.
~ Jesús Rodríguez
I don't know what it is. I simply can't stand it. It's like a hand reaching out of the dark. It is fear—blind fear as if it were lying in wait somewhere for me.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
Thomas Wolfe wrote, "Here was an entire nation … infested with the contagion of an ever-present fear. It was a kind of creeping paralysis which twisted and blighted all human relations.
~ Erik Larson
Moonlight was a particular source of dread. That Friday, August 16, Cockett wrote in her diary, "With this gorgeous moon we all expect more tonight.
~ Erik Larson
The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else.
~ Ernest Becker
It is the light of course but it is necessary that the place be clean and pleasant. You do not want music. Certainly you do not want music. Nor can you stand before a bar with dignity although that is all that is provided for these hours. What did he fear? It was not fear or dread. It was a nothing that he knew too well. It was all a nothing and a man was nothing too.
~ Ernest Hemingway
What did he fear? It was not fear or dread. It was a nothing that he knew too well. It was all a nothing and a man was nothing too.
~ Ernest Hemingway
If one must die, he thought, and clearly one must, I can die. But I hate it.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Tengo miedo de morir.
~ Ernest Hemingway