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Quotes About Dread

Room 101,' he said.
~ George Orwell
But it was frightening: or, more exactly, it was like a foretaste of death, like being a little less alive.
~ George Orwell
In this place you could not feel anything, except pain and foreknowledge of pain.
~ George Orwell
Suddenly his heart seemed to turn to ice and his bowels to water.
~ George Orwell
His bowels seemed to turn to water.
~ George Orwell
A modern literary intellectual lives and writes in constant dread—not, indeed, of public opinion in the wider sense, but of public opinion within his own group.
~ George Orwell
Gelecekten o kadar korkuyoruz ki bir tavÅŸan gibi doÄŸruca boa y?lan?n?n g?rtla??ndan içeri atl?yoruz.
~ George Orwell
Weak people live in perpetual fear and foreboding.
~ George Sand
Presidential couple may be imagined by anyone who has ever loved a child, and suffered that dread intimation common to all parents, that Fate may not hold that life in as high a regard, and may dispose of it at will.
~ George Saunders
I find I've been made sad by Minuteman dread. They take a fact and make the worst of it. This beautiful world, all this magnificence, seems to inspire in them only a fear that the beautiful world will be taken away.
~ George Saunders
It is as if you were living with the constant dread that the slightest weakening of your resolution might, all at once, take you too far. It is as if you constantly needed to tell yourself: it is this way because I wanted it this way, I wanted it this way, otherwise I am dead.
~ Georges Perec
I am very much obliged to my uncle, but the thought that he might find another way of rescuing me from my dear rake puts me in the liveliest dread!
~ Georgette Heyer
I would hate the thought of dying full stop; I've got to be honest with you.
~ Craig Fairbrass
Indeed, it is a benevolent dispensation of Providence that those who express most dread of an unorthodox advance are usually those whom Nature has most effectively protected from any risk of one.
~ Sarah Caudwell
There are days on which Julia does not open letters. She is overcome, as I understand it, by a sort of superstitious dread, in which she is persuaded that letters bode her no good: they will be from the Gas Board, and demand money; or from the Inland Revenue, and demand accounts; or from some much valued friend, and demand an answer.
~ Sarah Caudwell
Worry is impatience for the next horror.
~ Sarah Manguso
Horror is terror that stayed the night.
~ Sarah Manguso
it was not going she dreaded—only leaving.
~ Sarah Miller
AS YOU GET OUT OF BED in the morning, be aware of My Presence with you. You may not be thinking clearly yet, but I am. Your early morning thoughts tend to be anxious ones until you get connected with Me. Invite Me into your thoughts by whispering My Name. Suddenly your day brightens and feels more user-friendly. You cannot dread a day that is vibrant with My Presence.
~ Sarah Young
The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.
~ Saul Alinsky
I suspect this is all gonna end in screaming and drowning
~ Scott Lynch
I think it's fair to say most video games let players experience only eight emotions: anger, panic, dread, surprise, wonder, satisfaction, joy and disappointment. And some games only disappoint.
~ Scott Rogers
I knew it; I bloody knew it," he muttered. "It followed us. Whatever was in that house, it followed every one of us.
~ Scott Thomas
Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear.
~ Seamus Heaney