Quotes About Dread

She was seeing the brand of pain and fear on the faces of people, and the look of evasion that refuses to know it–they seemed to be going through the motions of some enormous pretense, acting out a ritual to ward off reality, letting the earth remain unseen and their lives unlived, in dread of something namelessly forbidden–yet the forbidden was the simple act of looking at the nature of their pain and questioning their duty to bear it.

They had counted on his pity and dreaded his anger; they had not dared consider the third alternative: his indifference.

From Canada to Pensacola, families shuddered at the Act

maybe he fought it off and forgot about it, and he wasn't afraid, because he knew he'd never carry it out. Right, but now, imagine that suddenly, in broad daylight, among other people, he meets IT embodied, chained to him, indestructible. What then? What do you have then?

Not all the items are equally precious to me; some awaken cheerful memories, others bring to mind events full of dread and menace, but all—regardless—are evidence, full corroboration of the authenticity of my adventures.

That scared me a lot. It scared me how much it scared me. Being punished for something you did not do. Or being an innocent victim. It's just something that I never want to experience.

the German today is like the June Bride. He knows he is going to get it, but he doesn't know how big it is gong to be.

We recognize that if we had ever encountered the real demon demigod Achilles, we woul have feared and dreaded him, hated his temper, despised his pride and been repelled by his savagery. But we know too that we could not have helped loving him.

He knew he could never jingle change in his pocket or park his car like a confident adult, he was the Adrian he had always been, casting a guilty look over a furtive shoulder, living in eternal dread of a grown-up striding forward to clip his ear.

triskaidekaphobic.

FEAR stands for fuck everything and run.

Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up

The monster nevers dies.

As I said at the beginning, this is a horror story.

The world is a worst case scenario and I'm afraid that all you sense is true

She had always consciously or unconsciously formed fear into a simple equation: fears = unknown.

Question: Death, where is thy sting? Answer: Every-fucking-where.

Now that he wanted to feel like he was having a bad dream, he wasn't. He was having a bad reality, and that was something from which you could not wake.

Frightened people live in their own special hell.

The trap had a ghastly perfection

When you couldn't sleep, when you were afraid to look around because of what you might see, time elongated and grew sharp teeth.

Pennywise: I'll kill you all! Ha-ha! I'll drive you crazy and then I'll kill you all! I'm every nightmare you ever had! I am your worst dream come true! I'm everything you ever were afraid of!

Suddenly Ka realized he was in love with Ä°pek. And realizing that this love would determine the rest of his life, he was filled with dread.

TUCKE DES OBJEKTS, DIE: Literally "the malice of things," the sneaking dread that machines are biding their time until they can turn on us and take over the world.