Quotes About Dread

Death has come to cut your throats and drink your blood!

Hey, we all have our fear. Mine is bugs and lobsters!

Human beings fear what they don't understand. The unknown scares us.

The imagination is always more horrible than the truth.

Howard Phillips Lovecraft

Love of life is born of the awareness of death, of the dread of it.

She would have called after him but for the dread of being ignored.

But what troubled her was unutterable, and she could barely frame it for herself. Where he merely suffered conventional first-night nerves, she experienced a visceral dread, a helpless disgust as palpable as seasickness.

I wish I could fill every young man who reads these pages with an utter dread and horror of poverty. I wish I could make you so feel its shame, its constraint, its bitterness that you would make vows against it.

I play Father Francis in 'The Exorcist Prequel.' It's fantastic. We are shooting in Morrocco and Rome. Paul Schrader is directing; Stellan Skarsgard plays the younger Max Von Sydow character. It's just a fantastic script. It's a very eerie, very scary script. It encomposes a growing dread that I think is really appropriate for the film.

The key to a good horror movie is what happens between the scares. The scares aren't the tricky part. If you're involved in what's going on in between, the scare is going to trick you. If you're not, the best scare in the world will not be scary.

Trips to the dentist - I like to postpone that kind of thing.

Fear hurries on my tongue through want of courage.

I mean, knowing people, people are terrified of the unknown and they want to just kill the unknown.

We dread the future only when we are not sure we can kill ourselves when we want to.

I want you to be afraid to turn the page (and to do that) you need to show right from the beginning that you're playing for keeps.

Checking voicemail is like, "When's the other shoe going to drop?" I'm always afraid it's going to be terrible news I don't want to hear.

One day I want to write a full-on horror book.

Time passes too quickly when you're getting ready to do something you don't want to do.

With a horror movie, you dont want to anticipate where things are going to go.

People want to be disturbed when they go see a horror movie.

I am as much a scholar as a warrior. T'isten'ur — a name with curious echoes. Tiste Andii, the Dwellers in Darkness. And, more rarely mentioned, and then in naught but fearful whispers, their shadow-kin, the Tiste Edur. Grey-skinned, believed extinct — and thankfully so, for it is a name sheathed in dread. T'isten'ur, the first glottal stop implies past tense, yes? Tlan, now T'lan — your language is kin to that of the Imass. Close kin.

Each night, in his dreams, he wept, and would awaken to find that what had plagued his dreams had pushed through the barrier of sleep, and he would lie beneath the furs, shivering with something like a fever. A sickness in truth, born of dread, guilt and shame. Too many failures, too many bad judgements; he had been stumbling, blind, for so long.

A man dies only once. The dread of death causes far more misery than the thing itself, and I shall not submit to it. It's only a short walk from here to the house of Lucius, and an even shorter walk from there to my house. I shall be perfectly safe.