Quotes About Dread

There are worse things than death in this town and they're usually standing a few inches behind you, ready to reach out and grab you when you least expect it.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. —GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

I do not believe in work-life balance. I believe that if you view your work as a calling, it is a labor of love rather than laborious. When your work is a calling, you are not approaching the amount of hours you are working with a sense of dread or counting the minutes until the weekend. Your calling can become a life-affirming engagement that can provide its own balance and spiritual nourishment.

Greater is our terror of the unknown.

Il lunedì è duro per tutti. Non c'entra che uno vada a lavorare o lavori a casa, o non faccia niente, il linedì è comunque tragico, andrebbe abolito, dalla domenica bisognerebbe passare direttamente al martedì. Solo che così il martedì diventerebbe il lunedì.

I was honestly very nervous of Constance Wheatcroft. And I wasn't the only one. Her entire family was afraid of her. Dogs were afraid of her. Bindweed in the hedge would wither as she passed; birds would forget their nesting instincts and fly back to north Africa at the sound of her hideous cries.

Real fear, he now knew, took its power not from what could happen but what you realize will happen.

I never liked going in the ocean.

To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening.

Death is the only thing that ever terrifies me. I hate it.

I have no terror of death. It is the coming of death that terrifies me. Its monstrous wings seem to wheel in the leaden air around me.

Death is the only thing that ever terrifies me. I hate it. Why? said the younger man wearily. Because, said Lord Henry, passing beneath his nostrils the gilt trellis of an open vinaigrette box, one can survive everything nowadays except that.

I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like everyone else.

He wore the unmistakable look of a man about to be present at a row between women, and only a wet cat in a strange back yard bears itself with less jauntiness than a man faced by such a prospect.

You keep only darkness, my distant female, from your regard sometimes the coast of dread emerges.

Early on, I had contracted that dread affliction of oldest or only children -- I lived for the absolute approval of my parents.

Only one form of contagion travels faster than a virus. And that's fear.

Fear cripples faster than any implement of war.

Only one form of contagion travels faster than a virus, Sinskey thought. And that's fear.

L'ennemi le plus dangereux est celui que personne ne craint.

la crainte du danger est dix mille fois plus effrayante que le danger lui-meme,et nous trouvons le poids de l'anxiete plus lourd de beaucoup que le mal que nous redoutans.

So possible is it for us to roll ourselves up in wickedness, till we grow invulnerable by conscience; and that sentinel, once dozed, sleeps fast, not to be awakened while the tide of pleasure continues to flow or till something dark and dreadful brings us to ourselves again.

Thus fear of danger is often thousand times more terrifying than danger itself when apparent to the eyes; and we find the burden of anxiety greater, by much, than the evil which we are anxious about;

It's paradoxical that an ordinary man like Nemur presumes to devote himself to making other people geniuses. He would like to be thought of as the discoverer of new laws of learning—the Einstein of psychology. And he has the teacher's fear of being surpassed by the student, the master's dread of having the disciple discredit his work.