Quotes About Dread

Don't follow it, I say. It leads only to squidgy death.

Oh the human infatuation with guilt and retribution! The dread of and perhaps desire for punishment! How ready we are for others to hate us! Midnight in the Mirror World

the nights were dark and full of terrors

I love 'Paranormal Activity' because it scares you more with little effort. I like 'The Blair Witch Project' and the 'Omen' series and 'The Exorcist.' I love 'Exorcism of Emily Rose.'

In 2006, I woke up every morning and dreaded the ballpark. I knew how difficult it was to even prepare my body to go out and play.

Bananas are great, as I believe them to be the only known cure for existential dread. Also, Mother Teresa said that in India, a woman dying in the street will share her banana with anyone who needs it, whereas in America, people amass and hoard as many bananas as they can to sell for an exorbitant profit. So half of them go bad, anyway.

Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fiber.

As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.

But he could not return; he was afraid of what lay ahead, he dreaded the unknown, but it was easier to walk forwards than backwards.

Just before I fell asleep, I had a moment of panic ...

The impending possibility that it will fall apart one day is torture—often worse than the actual disaster.

Sometimes, said Miss Phillips, the thing you dread doing the very thing you should do, just so you can stop thinking about it.

It was like being in an elevator cut loose at the top. Falling, falling, and not knowing when you will hit.

If I'd been older I would've asked what it was right away, but I didn't because I wanted to postpone the moment when I would know what it was. In stories I'd read, I'd come across the words nameless dread. They'd just been words then, but now that's exactly what I felt.

The past is so much safer, because whatever's in it has already happened. It can't be changed; so, in a way, there's nothing to dread.

It's the first time I can ever remember being scared that the United States might mess up and something terrible will happen to us.

Every time I go to Washington, I break out in a cold sweat. So I try not to spend too much time there.

It is a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.

His conduct has of late, been what the world calls irreproachable; but then I know his heart is still unchanged; and I know that spring is approaching, and deeply dread the consequences.

Everyone here is dreading the great terror known as winter.

She lived in fear of ifonic endings. (91)

Dread was my governess growing up.

and every moment one expects the sky to fling a barrage from clouds so leaden they hang low across the city roofs and drown the horizon.

Also there was something vampiric about rock music. It must have sounded supernatural even to those who don't believe in the supernatural. I mean the way the electricity could stretch a single note forever; the way harmony could be layered upon harmony until you felt yourself dissolving in the sound. So eloquent of dread it was, this music…