Quotes About Dread

Would gladly trade a limb to live my life free from fear!

When the horror recedes and the world resumes its normal shape, you cannot forget it. You have seen what is really there, the empty horror that exists when the consoling illusion of our mundane experience is stripped away, so you can never respond to the world in quite the same way again. from Coleridge: Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread

It seems that when human beings contemplate the absolute, they have very similar ideas and experiences. The sense of presence, ecstasy and dread in the presence of a reality—called nirvana, the One, Brahman or God—seems to be a state of mind and a perception that are natural and endlessly sought by human beings.

it at the same time. Dreaded the pain of looking at

Every form of causeless self-doubt, every feeling of inferiority and secret unworthiness is, in fact, man's hidden dread of his inability to deal with existence.

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.

O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?

There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.

Man makes a death which Nature never made. And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.

Men always fear things which move by themselves.

Men see what they are most afraid of.

War doesn't mature men; it merely pickles them in the brine of disgust and dread.

No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man. Life and death to him are haunted grounds, filled with goblin forms of vague and shadowy dread.

To get up in the morning, wash and then wait for some unforeseen variety of dread or depression. I would give the whole universe and all of Shakespeare for a grain of ataraxy.

The grave, dread thing! Men shiver when thou'rt named: Nature appalled, Shakes off her wonted firmness.

I don't like coming home. It keeps me from being nostalgic, which by nature I am. Even before the plane begins its descent, I find myself dreading the questions left unanswered by my childhood.

If one regards life and death as natural processes, the metaphysical dread vanishes, and one obtains peace of mind.

There is little peace or comfort in life if we are always anxious as to future events. He that worries himself with the dread of possible contingencies will never be at rest.

He who fears he shall suffer already suffers what he fears.

Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized by a madness which forces them to commit the very acts which makes it certain that what they dread shall happen.

and find apartment 627. I swallow hard and knock. The

Nor dread nor hope attend A dying animal; A man awaits his end Dreading and hoping all.

more terrifying now that he had been