Quotes About Dread

Dread occurs frequently in response to high-probability negative events; its magnitude increases as the dreaded event draws nearer. Because

Dread occurs frequently in response to high-probability negative events; its magnitude increases as the dreaded event draws nearer.

For anxiety and dread, the threat is in the future. For fear, the threat is now—in the present. Fear is a negative, short-lasting, high-alert emotion in response to a perceived threat, and, like anxiety, it can be measured as a state or trait.

Most horror movies are certainly that.

Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.

Her chief dread in life, at this period of her development, was that she would appear narrow minded; what she feared next afterwards was that she should be so.

The image of the presence, whatever it was, waiting there for him to go--this image had not yet been so concrete for his nerves as when he stopped short of the point at which certainty would have come to him. For, with all his resolution, or more exactly with all his dread, he did stop short--he hung back from really seeing. The risk was too great and his fear too definite: it took at this moment an awful specific form.

I looked at the place with my heart beating as I had known it to do in the dentist's parlor.

The flash of this knowledge — for it was knowledge in the midst of dread — produced in me the most extraordinary effect.

It was the idea . . . that led me straight out . . . of the inner chamber of my dread.

There was something deep within him that he had absolutely shown to no one—to the companion of these walks in particular not a bit more than he could help; but he was none the less haunted, under its shadow, with a dire apprehension of its publicity.

To be sick, to be neurotic, if you like, is to ask for guarantees. The neurotic is the flounder that lies on the bed of the river, securely settled in the mud, waiting to be speared. For him, death is the only certainty, and dread of that grim certainty immobilizes him in a living death far more horrible than the one he imagines but knows nothing about.

For backward or forward, eternity is the same; already have we been the nothing we dread to be.

One can't live with a child of Holocaust survivors without absorbing some of the same sensibilities that her parents transmitted to her as a young girl. It is an unspoken dread, a sense of fragility, an anxious anticipation of unseen horrors.

I'd like to create a character that is completely appalling, that it would make the audience tremble.

And, you know, like I said, I'm not looking forward to a trial.

I'm not worried about what's going to happen when I'm thirty, because I am never going to make it to thirty. You know what life is like after thirty - I don't want that.

How messed up is it when you feel like you belong in a place that fills you with a sense of dread?

When you're wearing slasher goggles, everything can look like a slasher.

When you're wearing slasher goggles, everything can look like a slasher.

I think that true horror is accomplished by slowly getting into your brain. The old way is much more scary.

When you do a play, you have the kind of nightly feeling of accomplishment. But you also have the daily dread of the doing it every night. And because you're doing the whole thing every day, it's like climbing up the mountain every single night. With a movie it's like climbing the mountain very slowly, over months of filming.

I have a paralyzing fear of snakes.

I dread shooting with animals. I hope I never get a script with snakes.