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Quotes About Dread

Terror can fill any space
~ Michael Crichton
I don't know if I can face this. You know. The party and the ceremony, and then the hour after that, and the hour after that.
~ Michael Cunningham
He who fears he shall suffer already suffers what he fears.
~ Michael de Montaigne
When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice,' Amos liked to say. 'Once when you worry about it, and the second time when it happens.
~ Michael Lewis
To the little girl the house seemed a gigantic head, and she only a morsel of meat conveniently positioned in its gaping mouth. The front porch was that grinning mouth, the white porch railing its lower teeth, the ornamental wooden frieze above its upper teeth, the painted wicker chair on which she perched its green wagging tongue. Frances sat and rocked and wondered when the jaws would clamp shut.
~ Michael McDowell
Suffering... is not just lots of pain but pain amplified by distinctly human emotions such as regret, self-pity, shame, humiliation, and dread.
~ Michael Pollan
I dread karaoke. I hate karaoke. I can't sing - that is why.
~ Clive Owen
I love horror because you can never just sit back in your seat. You always have to be on the edge of it.
~ Mia Goth
I just always had this feeling inside me of always being nervous and afraid of situations.
~ Jonathan Knight
True horror, I think, deals with dread and menace and gets under your skin.
~ Brad Anderson
Love, Fear, and Esteem, - Write these on three stones.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
The violence of love is as much to be dreaded as that of hate.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The eternal silence of these infinite spaces terrifies me
~ Blaise Pascal
The eternal silence of these infinite places fills me with dread.
~ Blaise Pascal
The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.
~ Blaise Pascal
We're down to nine hours." "Until?" Scout asked. The Keep was expressionless. "Something bad happens." "Right," Scout said, as if she completely understood. "Bad.
~ Bob Mayer
El miedo existe en imaginarse las cosas malas antes que ocurran
~ Borges, Jorge Luis
What manner of man is this, or what manner of creature is it in the semblance of man? I feel the dread of this horrible place overpowering me; I am in fear -- in awful fear -- and there is no escape for me; I am encompassed about with terrors that I dare not think of...
~ Bram Stoker
And then there was silence, deep, awful silence, which chilled me.
~ Bram Stoker
My lamp seemed to be of little effect in the brilliant moonlight, but I was glad to have it with me, for there was a dread loneliness in the place which chilled my heart and made my nerves tremble.
~ Bram Stoker
What I saw appalled me. I felt my hair rise like bristles on the back of my neck, and my heart seemed to stand still.
~ Bram Stoker
You become the monster you fear the worst, so the monster won't overtake you.
~ Suzanne Weyn
My flesh winced, in cowardice, from such a death.
~ Sylvia Plath
This is what it is to be complete. It is horrible.
~ Sylvia Plath