Quotes About Dread

I postponed this attempt for some months longer; for the importance attached to its success inspired me with a dread lest I shall fail.

Like one who, on a lonely road, Doth walk in fear and dread, And, having once turned round, walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. Continuing thus, I came at length opposite to the inn at which the various diligences and carriages usually stopped.

Like one who, on a lonely road, Doth walk in fear and dread, And, having once turned round, walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. —COLERIDGE'S ANCIENT MARINER

And so here I am ! I continue to exist—to see one day succeed the other ; to dread night, but more to dread morning, and hail another cheerless day.

But honestly, isn't that adulthood in a summary? Constant feelings of pure, overwhelming dread?

You know how depression lies? Well anxiety is stupid. I did not just say people with anxiety are stupid. No, no. I mean that anxiety itself is stupid. If you asked anxiety what two plus two is, anxiety will think very hard and say triangle or a bag of Fritos or a commemorative stamp. Because anxiety doesn't know what anything is. It will try to convince you that things that are totally fine are worthy of dread.

He knew that the dread in these men's minds was not of the fact, but of his naming it—as if the fact had not existed, but his words held the power to make it exist.

Because what would be left, when all these books were in the past? He lay awake nights dreading it.

the dread of Darwin is rising to hysteria, even among his learned colleagues. It was not long ago people blamed Darwin's Origin for encouraging the abolitionists and the war. But now even abolitionists and transcendentalists have turned against him." "How are people so irrational?" he asked, but he knew. Even the abolitionists had no wish to be placed inside creation, subject to its laws. They wished to rule over it from the head of God's table.

The fear of death in antiquity differed from the terrors of torment or horrors of actual nonexistence experienced by so many in the West today. It was instead the dread of losing out on everything a full life has to offer, everything that makes living pleasant.

Horror's a worm that needs to be coughed out before it breeds.

This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a gasp.

What if death drives us insane? What if we survive, but it drives us insane? What then?

But fascination is fear's twin brother

Who can declare? Power is a dreadful thing. I cannot judge you with an answer. I have not yet judged myself.

People dread losses more than they look forward to gains, that they dwell on setbacks more than they savor good fortune, and that they are more stung by criticism than they are heartened by praise

The psychological literature confirms that people dread losses more than they look forward to gains, that they dwell on setbacks more than they savor good fortune, and that they are more stung by criticism than they are heartened by praise.

The most terrible thing of all is happy love, for then there is fear in everything.

I love weekends. Just like everyone else, I get to rest on weekends and go out with friends. I hate Mondays.

what is terrible in actuality often pales in significance compared to what is terrible in imagination.

It's one of the two major fears of people. 'Cause one is social humiliation. And the other is something like mortality and death.

I've never found anything good in a basement. Ever.

Just one thing worse than the dark, ain't there? And that's what's inside it - the things that call it home ...

There is nothing we fear so much as the unknown, and the Surgeon was not going to enlighten her.