Quotes About Dread

But this is also one of the most compelling elements in travel, the feeling of dread underneath everything, it makes sensations heightened and acute, the world is charged with a power it doesn't have in ordinary life.

I don't like leaving the road, my sense of vulnerability deepens, a sort of primal nervousness descends. But this is also one of the most compelling elements in travel, the feeling of dread underneath everything, it makes sensations heightened and acute, the world is charged with a power it doesn't have in ordinary life.

Horror, of all the genres, is the only one that can provoke an involuntary visceral reaction.

He didn't know how one's flesh prickled when fear took hold. He didn't understand what it was like to gaze into the future and know that it would be nothing more than a dark and lonely place.

It seems that everyone has their own inexplicable fear to have nightmares about. We need nightmares to keep ourselves entertained, and fend off the contentment that we all fear and abhor so much.

The things we fear are almost always things which needn't be feared at all. They are creatures of our imagination.

SOMETHING TERRIBLE IS GOING TO HAPPEN. I KNOW IT. EVERY TIME I HAD A BAD DREAM I FEEL LIKE LEAVING TOWN. THEN I FEEL THAT SOMETHING TERRIBLE IS GOING TO HAPPEN. AND THIS IS THE WORST DREAM I'VE EVER HAD IN MY WHOLE LIFE.

A memory of a fear / that has now come true.

When I'm afraid, I always ask myself, what's the worst that can happen?" Chapter 5 · Page 41 · Location 733

He needed to keep his fear at bay. A little was good. Kept him sharp. But fear, unchecked, became terror and terror grew into panic and panic created chaos. And then all hell broke loose.

Philosophizing is simply one way of being afraid, a cowardly pretense that doesn't get you anywhere.

Fear. It was happening all over again. That sickly helpless feeling that spread with its icy fingers, slowly eating up all faith and hope.

The Gods are not to be feared; death cannot be felt; the good can be won; what we dread can be conquered.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

Not knowing, he said, is a thousand times more horrible than facing your fear.

We are drawn to horror even as we recoil from it.

We have reason to be afraid. This is a terrible place.

True horror is all the more potent for being implicit.

though I was afraid of many things, the thing I feared most mortally was being afraid. I

I had also another consideration, and that was, the dread of the torments of hell, which I was sure they must partake of that for fear of the cross, do shrink from their profession of Christ, His words and laws before the sons of men: I thought also of the glory that He had prepared for those that in faith, and love, and patience, stood to His ways before them. 

we obscure our self-knowledge with anxiety; that it is not what we desire but what we fear and dread we may desire that impedes us.

If there is some monstrous consciousness behind all life,' he thought angrily, 'it's responsible for all the horrors! Come

Hearing noises when you're home alone and just accepting the fact you're gonna die.

'Thank God It's Monday!' said no one ever...