logo

Quotes About Dread

Be wary then; best safety lies in fear.
~ William Shakespeare
It is a basilisk unto mine eye, Kills me to look on't.
~ William Shakespeare
When we stop hoping, that which we fear will certainly come.
~ Christa Wolf
You always have the memory of the bottom, and fear of the bottom. And when you start going to the bottom you panic.
~ Milton Resnick
I am made to tremble and I fear!
~ Pope John XXIII
They terrify lest they should fear.
~ Tacitus
There is fear hanging in the air of the sleeping halls, and the air of the streets. Fear walks through the city, fear without name, without shape. All men feel it and none dare speak.
~ Ayn Rand, Anthem
Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
~ Honore de Balzac
Fear is the fear of one's self.
~ Wilhelm Stekel
I think people, unfortunately, do live in constant fear.
~ Marc Forster
People fear the unforeseen and the unseen. Truth be told we all fear the unseen.
~ Unknown
It is fear that I stand most in fear of, in sharpness it exceeds every other feeling.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.
~ Ambrose Bierce
There lay between them, separating them, that same terrible line of the unknown and of fear, like the line separating the living from the dead.
~ Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Nothing is terrible except fear itself.
~ Francis Bacon
Fear is one thing that can ruin everything. It's the greatest problem.
~ Boman Irani
Fear is prophetical of evil.
~ Benjamin Whichcote
I believe you can frighten people without showing their heads caved-in.
~ Donald Pleasence
The intensest form of hatred is that rooted in fear.
~ George Eliot
what you fear, you invite.
~ Helen McCloy
Fear is sweat, but terror is addictive.
~ Unknown
I fear nomads. I am afraid of them and afraid for them too.
~ Jane Bowles
He doesn't mind if he dies... indeed, he would like to die; but yet he fears to fall. He would welcome a long sleep; but not at the price of falling to it.
~ William Golding