Quotes About Dread

It's the same thing,' I told her. 'What is?' 'Being afraid and being alive.' 'No,' she said slowly, and now it was as if she was speaking a language she knew at first I wouldn't understand, the very words, not to mention the concept, being foreign to me. 'Macy, no. It's not.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

More of fear than of any other thing has been created.

Behind me lie the fields and brakes, All dark beneath the starry pole, And now with holy dread there wakes The pure awareness of the soul.

And why should I feel ashamed in that dreadful moment when my entire self trembles on the edge of being and not-being

And I, God-hated, I could not rest Content seizing the rocks merely And shattering them to smithereens, I must Undermine her too, her peace. So she is hell's demanded sacrifice. Devil, now help me shorten the time of dread. Let what must happen happen now, Let her fate break around my head, Let her come to perdition as I do.

There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.

We are already dead but not yet in the ground. - Fear

For though in old times there were some, and in the present day not a few are found, who deny the being of a God, yet, whether they will or not, they occasionally feel the truth which they are desirous not to know. We do not read of any man who broke out into more unbridled and audacious contempt of the Deity than C. Caligula, and yet none showed greater dread when any indication of divine wrath was manifested.

Hence that dread and amazement with which as Scripture uniformly relates, holy men were struck and overwhelmed whenever they beheld the presence of God.

Those set our hairs, but these our flesh upright.

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Life is always frightful. We cannot help it and we are responsible all the same. One's born and at once one is guilty.

Life, too much of it, and not enough. The fear that it will end some day, and the fear that tomorrow will be the same as yesterday.

it is the possibilities which are the most terrible things in life.

Ah, what a sign it is of evil life, Where death's approach is seen so terrible!

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Death is terrible, but still more terrible is the feeling that you might live for ever and never die.

In the end it had all been too simple, too easy. But I feared my good fortune.

A man who has known really the intention & expectation of woman in relationship with her will dread to even befriend her, forget about marring her.

I keep brooding on whether I shall reach the age of my father and brother, or even that of my mother, tortured as I am by the conflict between the desire for rest, the dread of renewed suffering (which a prolonged life would mean) and by the anticipation of sorrow at being separated from everything to which I am still attached.

If you're making a horror film, it's very important that you have lots of quiet, suspensey, don't-know-what's-happening stuff before you get the big fright.

If you were writing a short ghost story, I would say start very quietly and go, 'One, two, three jump.' Or start with a jump and make it jumpier. But with a long story, it must have rises and falls.

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