Quotes About Dread

It was perfect, but perfection is terrifying.

Poor decisions and bad luck are contingencies of most horror films.

I, for one, don't forget a thing. I just sit around waiting for something worse.

The dread and disorientation that persons with poor self-esteem experience when life goes well in ways that conflict with their deepest view of themselves and of what is appropriate to them.

The child probably overheard their voices; for, looking up to the window, with a bright, but naughty smile of mirth and intelligence, she threw one of the prickly burrs at the Reverend Mr. Dimmesdale. The sensitive clergyman shrunk, with nervous dread, from the light missile.

It was no wonder that they thus questioned one another's actual and bodily existence, and even doubted of their own. So strangely did they meet in the dim wood that it was like the first encounter in the world beyond the grave of two spirits who had been intimately connected in their former life, but now stood coldly shuddering in mutual dread, as not yet familiar with their state, nor wonted to the companionship of disembodied beings. Each a ghost, and awe-stricken at the other ghost.

There is no other fear so horrible and unhumanizing as that which makes man dread to breathe heaven's vital air lest it be poison, or to grasp the hand of a brother or friend lest the grip of the pestilence should clutch him.

He was afraid, but fear meant he was still alive.

There is nothing to fear but fear itself, the captain announces from the helm, and the occasional man-eating monster.

The fear of not living is a deep, abiding dread of watching your own potential decompose into irredeemable disappointment when 'should be' gets crushed by what is.

Fear, Ayn. Fear is the beloved father of respect.

The fear of not living is a deep, abiding dread of watching your own potential decompose into irredeemable disappointment when should be gets crushed by what it is.

The terror of the unknown was just as awful, and just as real, regardless of whether or not there was truly something to fear. -Scythe Goddard

I am too sick to lay down the sidewalks frighten me the whole damned city frightens me, what I will become what I have become frightens me.

I gave him my code name. 'This is Mr. Slow Death.

There are things out there in the night where light cannot exist that make Cthulhu look like a Care Bear.

Afraid of death? So very much afraid of death that you long to die?

Death is a monster; death is horrible.

If you're doing a movie, the minute you put a monster in it, it becomes a horror movie.

We have nothing to fear but fear itself - and monsters.

I hate mornings.

They were afraid of dieing, but they were even more afraid to show it.

In some respects, though not many, the waiting was worse than the tunnel itself. Imagination was a killer.

They were afraid of dying but they were even more afraid to show it.