Quotes About Dread

Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.

Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval - a thing which, to the general run of the human race, is more dreaded than wolves and death.

Dread of night. Dread of not-night.

We adore, we invoke, we seek to appease, only that which we fear.

When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, we call the dream a nightmare.

Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.

It is what we fear that happens to us.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

The strongest passion is fear.

The major ingredient of any recipe for fear is the unknown.

Omnipotence is bought with ceaseless fear.

The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear, and with good reason; that passion alone, in the trouble of it, exceeding all other accidents

Insects are my secret fear. That's what terrifies me more than anything - insects.

An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.

When we fear things I think that we wish for them ... every fear hides a wish

This is the century of fear.

Death is not the enemy; living in constant fear of it is.

Fear is cruel and mean.

Nothing routs us but the villainy of our fears.

Lucy: Do you think you have Pantophobia, Charlie Brown? Charlie: I don't know, what is pantophobia? Lucy: The fear of Everything. Charlie: THAT'S IT!!!

In addition to the dread of Indians, Texas held out no inducements for Mexican emigrants.

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.

I'm very much afraid of being mad - that's my one fear.

Uncommon extension of the fear of death.