Quotes About Dread

People who are afraid of death are afraid of lif

Death carries with it a certain dread. It [is] the enemy, the great, mysterious monster that makes people quake with fear.

He that shrinks from the grave with too great a dread, has an invisible fear behind him pushing him into it.

it had nothing to fear but fear itself.

Everyone, deep in their hearts, is waiting for the end of the world to come.

Writing from memory like this, I often feel a pang of dread. What if I've forgotten the most important thing? What if somewhere inside me there is a dark limbo where all the the truly important memories are heaped and slowly turning into mud?

Irrepressible curiosity vied with an instinctive fear.

Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit down every day and make it up.

Even before 9/11 I was gripped by a sense of dread: our lack of criticism about what we were doing in the Middle East - the slagging off of a whole religious tradition.

I always get scared of traffic cops when I'm driving, like I freak out even when I'm not doing anything wrong. I still think they're going to pull me over and arrest me.

Horror used to be one thing, and I think that's starting to broaden - there can have subgenres, and other things can be going on in a horror story. In comics, you'll never get the 'Boo' effect in a comic; you can go for mood, atmosphere and personal tragedy to build the horror elements and sense of dread.

What you are afraid of is never as bad as what you imagine. The fear you let build up in your mind is worse than the situation that actually exists.

Death was originally proposed as an object of dread, that sin might not be committed; now it must be undergone that sin may not be committed, or, if committed, be remitted, and the award of righteousness bestowed on him whose victory has earned it.

it is easy not to believe in monsters, considerably more difficult to escape their dread and loathsome clutches.

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Un pressentiment vague et fiévreux mêlait un frisson de volupté à l'anxiété d'Edgar.

La paura è peggio del castigo; perché alla fine il castigo è qualcosa di determinato e, sia pesante o meno, è sempre meglio della spaventosa incertezza, della tremenda tensione che si prolunga all'infinito.

Patton was dreading what came after. "I love war and responsibility and excitement…" he wrote his wife, Beatrice, on May 3. "Peace is going to be hell on me.

I am not myself apt to be alarmed at innovations recommended by reason. That dread belongs to those whose interests or prejudices shrink from the advance of truth and science.

Can you imagine life without the horror genre? There would be no monsters. Only a**holes.

He did not fear death exactly, but he had evaded it for so many years that it had come to seem formidable simply by virtue of that long act of evasion. In particular he feared dying in some undignified way, on the jakes or with his face in the porridge.

The hair on the back of the neck stood erect and you ran, in spite of yourself, ribs ringing with panic, certain as a child running up the cellar stairs that something very bad was after you.

False fears are a plague, a modern plague!

In the eyes of all of them was the hollow stare of fear, and there was hollowness in their merriment, too.