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Quotes About Dread

I don't like going into the basement. I'm always afraid that something's going to blow up.
~ Roz Chast
I'm a huge 'Breaking Bad' fan; I would be really annoyed if anyone told me anything about what was going to happen in the last eight episodes.
~ Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
I am more afraid of alcohol than of all the bullets of the enemy.
~ Stonewall Jackson
I really enjoy spending Sunday evenings with friends, because Sunday evenings are always frightening. You are obsessed by the fact that you are working again the next day. And sometimes you get the blues.
~ Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Every angel is terrible.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Romans 8 contains a powerful theology of suffering. There's the groaning of those dying without hope, and in contrast, the groaning of those in childbirth. Both processes are painful, yet they are very different. The one is the pain of hopeless dread, the other the pain of hopeful anticipation. The Christian's pain is very real, but it's the pain of a mother anticipating the joy of holding her child. It
~ Randy Alcorn
By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes.   So vague, yet so immense. He did not want to live with it. Yet he knew that, during this night, unless he lived with it very well, he might have to live with it all the rest of his life.
~ Ray Bradbury
custodians of our peace of mind, the focus of our understandable and rightful dread of being inferior; official censors, judges, and executors.
~ Ray Bradbury
By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. So vague, yet so immense. He did not want to live with it. Yet he knew that, during this night, unless he lived with it very well, he might have to live with it all the rest of his life.
~ Ray Bradbury
The stuff of nightmare is their plain bread. They butter it with pain.
~ Ray Bradbury
Strange. Half my years afraid of life. The other half, afraid of death. Always some kind of afraid.
~ Ray Bradbury
The nightmare of living was begun.
~ Ray Bradbury
Siempre había una minoría que tenía miedo de algo, y una gran mayoría que tenía miedo de la oscuridad, miedo del futuro, miedo del presente, miedo de ellos mismo y de las sombras de ellos mismos.
~ Ray Bradbury
Mildred had already anticipated this in a quavery voice.
~ Ray Bradbury
And so when houses were finally fireproofed completely, all over the world there was no longer need of firemen for the old purpose. They were given the new job, as custodians of our peace of mind, the focus of our understandable and rightful dread of being inferior; official censors, judges, and executors.
~ Ray Bradbury
And so when houses were finally fireproofed completely, all over the world (you were correct in your assumption the other night) there was no longer need of firemen for the old purposes. They were given the new job, as custodians of our peace of mind, the focus of our understandable and rightful dread of being inferior; official censors, judges, and executors. That's you, Montag, and that's me.
~ Ray Bradbury
They were given the new job, as custodians of our peace of mind, the focus of our understandable and rightful dread of being inferior; official censors, judges, and executors. That's you, Montag, and that's me.
~ Ray Bradbury
They were given a new job, as custodians of our peace of mind, the focus of our understandable and rightful dread of being inferior; official censors, judges and executors. That's you, Montag and that's me.
~ Ray Bradbury
She feared the unknown as we all do, and her ignorance made the unknown infinitely vast.
~ Joseph Conrad
And after all, one does not die of it. Die of what? I asked swiftly. Of being afraid.
~ Joseph Conrad
The only secret of her life was her abject terror of the time when her husband would come home to stay for good.
~ Joseph Conrad
hot-tempered, but the sight of some nondescript and miry creature sitting cross-legged amongst a lot of loose straw, and swinging itself to and fro like a bear in a cage, made him pause. Then this tramp stood up silently before him, one mass of mud and filth from head to foot. Smith, alone amongst his stacks with this apparition, in the stormy twilight ringing with the infuriated barking of the dog, felt the dread of an inexplicable strangeness. But when that being, parting with
~ Joseph Conrad
The horror, the horror.
~ Joseph Conrad
Something did happen to me somewhere that robbed me of confidence and courage and left me with a fear of discovery and change and a positive dread of everything unknown that may occur.
~ Joseph Heller