Quotes About Dread

I know that sometimes when you are really worried about something, it ends up not being nearly as bad as you think it will be, and you get to be relieved that you were just being silly, worrying so much over nothing. But sometimes it is just the opposite. It can happen that whatever you are worried about will be even worse than you could have possibly imagined, and you find that you were right to be worried, and even that, maybe, you weren't worried enough.

But even as she spoke, a feeling of doom crept into her bones, joining the anger and dread already lurking there.

Don't , she wanted to say, though she didn't know: don't what? She knew only that something was about to happen, and that nothing she could say or do would prevent it.

Biterek ölmek ne güzel, ba?lamadan ölmek korkunç!

L'idea di passare un'altra notte bianca mi atterrì.

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

The death close before me was terrible, but far more terrible than death was the dread of being misremembered after death

She watched his face as earnestly as he watched the river. But, in the intensity of her look there was a touch of dread or horror.

O! Better to have no home in which to lay his head, than to have a home and dread to go to it, through such a cause.

Few people know what secrecy there is in the young, under terror. ... I am afraid to think of what I might have done on requirement, in the secrecy of my terror

But far more terrible than death was the dread of being misremembered after death.

he felt the chilling influence of its death-cold eyes

She and his father had been at variance from his earliest remembrance. To sit speechless himself in the midst of rigid silence, glancing in dread from the one averted face to the other, had been the peacefullest occupation of his childhood. She gave him one glassy kiss, and four stiff fingers muffled in worsted.

Doctor, if something goes wrong, there is probably squat-all we can do about it, anyway. I'm sure you folks have been chatting about the ship that just came in so you're probably guessing the same thing I am: that if these Dornaani wanted to put their foot up our ass and wriggle their toes out our nostrils, I doubt there's a thing in creation we could do about it.

I hate January, it's the Monday of months.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

Have you been worried since he broke out?" Jade asked. "Well, I suppose worried isn't quite the word for it. Concerned. Concerned is a better word.

Rod Serling once observed, "The greatest fear of all is fear of the unknown, which you can't share with others.

Posso dire soltanto che vi sono enti così spaventosi che il solo vederli basta a raggelare il sangue. Ma chi mi comprenderà se ora affermo che ben più terrificante è la loro invisibile vicinanza?

The future is the worst thing about the present.

there's one thing that's the stuff of cats' nightmares, it's sudden and total immersion in water.

I am sick of death and worst of all this sickness feeds on itself, the more afraid I am the more I am afraid the more I flee the more I am afraid the more I am haunted.

do everything, I thought, on the contrary, whatever you can to resist the ingenious temptations of compromises, cling to the suffering, stir up the dread, for the monsters are also the benevolent guardians of the survivor's presence within me

Terror was the key, of course, for there's a fine line between paralyzing dread and galvanizing fright.