Quotes About Dread

Whether it's via the monstrous or the paranormal, horror actually can really get at some of the most fundamental human questions.

Sometimes fear and dread are superior to tedium.

I believed, at twenty-two, that I had to force myself toward whatever filled me with dread, and along the way I'd lost the idea that fear was a useful gauge of risk.

Hell, he thought, was not a cave filled with fire and brimstone--it was an insurance office.

When people say, "I've told you fifty times," / They mean to scold, and very often do; / When poets say, "I've written fifty rhymes," / They make you dread that they 'II recite them too; In gangs of fifty, thieves commit their crimes; / At fifty love for love is rare, 't is true, / But then, no doubt, it equally as true is, / A good deal may be bought for fifty Louis.

What if everything she most dreaded was happening now?

Okay," I said, fear making my voice weak. This is bad. This is very, very bad." Wish

Only fools venture where the spirits dread

I know something about dread myself, and appreciate the elaborate systems with which some people fill the void, appreciate all the opiates of the people, whether they are as accessible as alcohol and heroin and promiscuity or as hard to come by as faith in God or History.

As it happens I am comfortable with the Michael Laskis of this world, with those who live outside rather than in, those in whom the sense of dread is so acute that they turn to extreme and doomed commitments; I know something about dread myself, and appreciate the elaborate systems with which some people manage to fill the void, appreciate all the opiates of the people, whether they are as accessible as alcohol and heroin and promiscuity or as hard to come by as faith in God or History.

We were silent because the exhilaration of social action seemed to many of us just one more way of escaping the personal, of masking for a while that dread of the meaningless which was man's fate.

The Bibbidi Bobbidi Beautiful boutique, the name filled me with dread.

There is no worse feeling than being nervous!

I'm sick of waking up & being scared of what the day will bring.

My case is not unique: I am afraid of dying and distressed at being in the world.

We would rather be ruined than changed We would rather die in our dread Than climb the cross of the moment And let our illusions die.

Looking up at the stars, I know quite well That, for all they care, I can go to hell, But on earth indifference is the least We have to dread from man or beast.

Nor dread nor hope attend A dying animal; A man awaits his end Dreading and hoping all; Many times he died, Many times rose again. A great man in his pride Confronting murderous men Casts derision upon Supersession of breath; He knows death to the bone – Man has created death.

The sky is darkening like a stain Something is going to fall like rain And it won't be flowers

We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and see our illusions die.

We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the present and let our illusions die.

The most mortifying infirmity in human nature ... is perhaps cowardice.

I just never really thought there could be something worse than death.

I have no fear of death, except I hate waiting for it.