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Quotes About Dread

My biggest fear in life is fear.
~ Sheryl Lee
Every fear is fear of death.
~ Wilhelm Stekel
We dread the future only when we are not sure we can kill ourselves when we want to.
~ E.M. Cioran
Mao Tse. Leigh tried to push away the horrible thoughts swimming in her head. Mao Tse was fine. She was just hiding. No one wanted to hurt her. They wanted something else.
~ Edie Claire
Yet nothing did he dread, but euer was ydrad.
~ Edmund Spencer
Boys. It's late. If you're not gonna kill me, what do you want?
~ Edward Falco
I must go walk so the wood so wild,And wander here and thereIn dread and deadly fear;For where I trusted I am beguiled,And all for one.
~ Anonymous
Fear came upon me, and trembling.
~ Anonymous
The king of terrors.
~ Anonymous
there's not a single evil in the world that you cannot trace to fear. Not one.
~ Anthony de Mello
Other times, the corpses bear no apparent injuries, and it is these that fill Jutta with dread: people who look like they are a moment away from rising up and slogging back to work with the rest of them.
~ Anthony Doerr
The dread that had been rising all morning rose higher in his throat as if by capillary action.
~ Anthony Doerr
There was something wrong about the house in Eastfield Terrace. Something unpleasant.
~ Anthony Horowitz
You've already said you're going to kill me," Alex said, "but I didn't think that meant you were going to bore me to death.
~ Anthony Horowitz
Psychological horror is more interesting to me than the explicitly physical.
~ Andrew Pyper
Even if things are going well, I'm always thinking that I'm about to be hit with the dreaded gut punch and - psych! - I'll find out that it's all falling apart.
~ Thomas Middleditch
Anyone who's taken a lot of creative-writing classes, or taught creative writing, has learned to dread a certain kind of manuscript. It's long, for one thing. It has irritatingly small type; it's grammatically meticulous when it comes to everything but punctuation, for which it has developed its own system of Tolkienic elaboration.
~ Tom Bissell
I've been told so many times that I should go to the gym to get my anxiety and frustration out. But it just makes me feel pure, concentrated dread.
~ Tuppence Middleton
I hate to fly. I'm deathly afraid of it.
~ Gina Prince-Bythewood
I hate flying. It creeps me out, and it scares me half to death.
~ Darci Lynne Farmer
I'm really scared of flying. Like, really, really, really scared.
~ Sam Smith
I'm afraid of flying.
~ Allison Janney
I'm very phobic about flying, but I'm also drawn to it.
~ Martin Scorsese
I'm not a flying fan. I can't bear it.
~ Tamsin Egerton