Quotes About Dread

There's no purer feeling in the world than being scared.

The coward, then, is a despairing sort of person; for he fears everything," Aristotle wrote.

Not reassuring when weathermen say 'Today will be terrible but don't worry it won't be as terrible as tomorrow or Friday.

A monster is not a monster if it doesn't scare you.

Little was known, which made what little was known terrifying.

Life is scarier than death

es menos duro sobrellevar un acontecimiento espantoso que imaginarlo y aguardarlo sin fin

Once men imagine a danger they soon turn it into a reality.

Companies rebrand so often because people who work in branding know, deep down, that they don't have real jobs and the constant emphasis on logos and color schemes creates a frenzy of activity that distracts them from the creeping existential dread that haunts their every waking moment.

I'm always nervous when I perform anyway.

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

I'm your nightmare. Did you think you were done with nightmares, now you've become one?

Brett has just shit his pants. He's not crying or whimpering, but he's so full of fear, it's as if his body is imploding.

She's too stoned to run, but stoned enough to be terrified.

I was living, I thought I was content, I was told I was happy. I did a marvelous impression of a man not crushed by dread. Once I felt your warm breath on my neck, I was no longer invisible, you saw me, you always saw me. Me cogitas, ergo sum.

our atmosphere breeds fear just as it breeds malaria

I hate auditions - when I'm doing them, I can't wait to get out the bleeding door.

I felt like a hunted animal, followed constantly, waiting to be killed.

There's a very curious and - and almost sadistic lust for blood that overcomes the concert listener, and there's a waiting for it to happen: a waiting for the horn to fluff; a waiting for the strings to become ragged; a waiting for the conductor to forget the subdivide, you know? And it's dreadful!

Why do waiting rooms have to be so ominous?

I always wanted to find something that I could wake up and not hate doing. Hating your job was probably my nightmare scenario.

And I remember walking in there and, I must say, I was quite unnerved the closer I got to it.

I'm afraid if I start to enjoy life, the rug will be yanked out from beneath me.

I'm very happy. I was little scared because it's such a big bite.