Quotes About Dread

I have a feeling that someone nearby is soon going to find out something about me that will mean the end, although I can't imagine what that something is.

He felt awkward because she was going to murder him.

You have a morbid aversion to dying.

One of the things he wanted to start screaming about was the surgeon's knife that was almost certain to be waiting for him and everyone else who lived long enough to die.

And then when you wake up, there's a moment of sheer terror in your body. Every bit of softness leaves your muscles, and you greet the day like it was the apocalypse.

They come. Sooner than I'd thought, more than I'd even begun to fear. They come looking for death. And Death is psyched to see 'em.

A fear of the unknown: what was that called? Worse yet: a fear of the known.

Nowhere in a hospital can you walk without blundering into the memory pools of strangers—their dread of what was imminent in their lives, their false hopes, the wild elation of their hopes, their sudden terrible and irrefutable knowledge; you would not wish to hear echoes of their whispered exchanges—But he was looking so well yesterday, what has happened to him overnight—

and if men looked at her she stiffened feeling her jaws tighten her blood beat with dread and if men did not look at her, if their glances slipped past her as if she were invisible, she felt yet a deeper dread: a conviction of not merely female but human failure.

When we fear we will suffer, we already suffer the things we fear.

to fear is to run away from something due to an unpleasant emotion or feeling that we may suffer or be harmed.

This is not going to be good. - Dan

If anyone could look into my head See or feel the dread that has captured Me or see within this sad, unhappy brain They would only turn away Turn away.

The self is essentially intangible and must be understood in terms of possibilities, dread, and decisions. When I behold my possibilities, I experience that dread which is "the dizziness of freedom," and my choice is made in fear and trembling.

When I want to find the vanguard of the people I look to the uneasy dreams of an aristocracy and find what they dread most.

and it is our fear of our regrets that causes our fear of the visitors.

There is terror in numbers.

Hidden within the heart of every man is that small boy who shudders at those dread things who shuffle among the shadows

Though he'd never know for sure what had happened to them, his mind was super talented at imagining the absolute worst.

The anticipation of fighting was almost worse than the fear of it.

El hecho de saber lo que podía ocurrir era agobiante, un manto asfixiante de miedo y sufrimiento que empezaba a cobrar vida. Casi deseaba que aquellos cabrones llegaran y acabaran con todo. La espera era insoportable. Los gemidos distantes de los laceradores se iban acercando a medida que la noche avanzaba, y cada minuto parecía durar más que el anterior.

I've never been this scared before, dude. Not like this.

La oscuridad [...] parecía presionar en la ventana desde fuera, con promesas de que algo malo iba a llegar.

he felt a fresh rush of horror.