Quotes About Dread

When we love, we are courageous; and courage has nothing to do with being fearless, its about being willing to experience fear, even dread, to do what we must, without guarantee of outcome.

You can tell a lot about a society by what it fears.

been simple fear before was now a cold feeling of dread as he realized the battle and the slaughter in the streets of Klaar was only the beginning. For the survivors there would

It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.

I only have the quite childish horror of the grave and of nothingness

Erchov atteignait le sommet de sa vie et il avait peur

I'm not into weapons. I'm not into cars. I'm not into explosions. I'm scared of all of that.

There is a silence in the imminence of animals and also in the echo of their noise, but the dread silence is the one that rises from a wilderness from which all the wild animals have gone.

When it comes right down to it, we fear the unknown more than anything else.

When evil had taken root in this house, it had grown here first.

It was the unhappy perception at the center of every ghost story.

Whatever you fear will happen to you, booze will make it happen.

And, as I watched the Lincoln come by degrees to a relationship with what it saw, I understood something: the basis of life is not a greed to exist, not a desire of any kind. It's fear, the fear which I saw here. And not even fear: much worse. Absolute dread. Paralyzing dread so great as to produce apathy.

My father told me what it used to feel like, waiting in the dentist's office. Every time the nurse opened the door you thought, It's happening. The thing I've been afraid of all my life.

the basis of life is not a greed to exist, not a desire of any kind. It's fear, the fear which I saw here. And not even fear; much worse. Absolute dread. Paralyzing dread so great as to produce apathy.

This can't be normal death…[this] is unnatural.

He was no more, freed from being, entering into nowhere without even knowing it. Just as he'd feared from the start.

The night has a capacity for terror that the day can never match.

The bottom line was that he didn't want to die. As far as he was concerned, death was the problem. The basic human problem. Everyone's problem. He wasn't any different from anyone else, but there was no consolation in that.

To fear only God's power with trembling and dread without fearing (or respecting) His astonishing love is an incomplete response that diminishes our experience and enjoyment of Him.

What strange creatures we are, to find silence peaceful, when permanent silence is the thing we most dread

The pink-haired boy is scared, so incredibly scared - only the thing you've most wished for can scare you in that way.

Dread spilled over the Englishman, dread of a world in which he could not die, a world without fear, a meaningless world. Fear permeated all that he knew to be good in life: love, danger, adventure. That was the secret he carried with him and that carried him along. But why venture without fear? You can lie down in the desert and face the beast or the vulture or the villain and mock his weapons and his desires, but to what end? Without fear, what matter if they bite or peck or stab you?

Every gathering has its moment. As an adult, I distract myself by trying to identify it, dreading the inevitable down-swing that is sure to follow. The guests will repeat themselves one too many times, or you'll run out of dope or liquor and realize that it was all you ever had in common.