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Quotes About Dread

Now he knew why people were so scared of ghosts. It was because ghosts were so full of fear themselves.
~ Melvin Burgess
Cruelty lurks in our instincts, and fanaticism is a camouflage for cruelty. Fanatics are seldom genuinely humane, and those who sincerely dread cruelty will be slow to adopt a fanatical creed. . . .
~ Unknown
Levels of information were levels of dread, once it's out it won't go back in, you can't just blink it away or run the film backward out of consciousness. How many of those levels did you really want to hump yourself through, which plateau would you reach before you shorted out and started sending the messages back unopened?
~ Michael Herr
Are you ready for nuclear Armageddon?
~ Unknown
calling the nightmare
~ Michael Scott
What are you scared of?" he asked me. I sighed really deeply, like it was totally hard for me to let my feelings out. "Everything," I told him. "I'm scared of everything.
~ Michael Thomas Ford
Specific terrors.
~ Michel Onfray
Yesterday, I was in Hatchards, and I saw a photograph of it, the usual view from Darjeeling. Everything flooded back. The cold. The silence. The dread. It was so overwhelming that I staggered outside and vomited in the gutter. People thought I was drunk.
~ Michelle Paver
There's nothing to fear but fear itself
~ Unknown
The lack of inner order manifests itself in the subjective condition that some call ontological anxiety, or existential dread. Basically, it is a fear of being, a feeling that there is no meaning to life and that existence is not worth going on with.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
a new faith is to capture our imagination, it must be one that will account rationally for the things we know, the things we feel, the things we hope for, and the ones we dread. It must be a system of beliefs that will marshal our psychic energy toward meaningful goals, a system that provides rules for a way of life that can provide flow.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
In broad daylight it's terrible for a man to face his death; but when you're asleep it ought to be easy enough....
~ Mikhail Sholokhov
so often that she'd feared for
~ Min Jin Lee
More than anything, she was afraid of running into him. Yet it would be worse, she thought, never to see him at all.
~ Min Jin Lee
Fear is nothing but anticipation of pain, be it physical,emotional,spiritual, or mental
~ Natalie
You are afraid to die, and you're afraid to live. What a way to exist.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
scrabble of toenails on the tile floor.
~ Unknown
Panic---a deep abiding, free-floating anxiety, often without any reason or logical basis.
~ Nelson DeMille
Thursday is perhaps the worst day of the week. It's nothing in itself; it just reminds you that the week has been going on too long.
~ Unknown
I hate Mondays, don't you?" "Not really
~ Unknown
The worst thing about fear is what it does to you when you try to hide it.
~ Unknown
A grate wall of darkness moves towards him. He can see it coming. Wast and imperious. It is unconsciousness and it its sleep. It moves like a grate tidal wave. But before it brakes over him and he is away. Before he renders himself completely to that oblivious sleep. He thinks with a sudden terrible bottomless dread of Avril Lavigne's vagina.
~ Nick Cave
A great wall of darkness moves towards him. He can see it coming. vast and imperious. It is unconsciousness and it its sleep. It moves like a great tidal wave. But before it brakes over him and he is away. Before he renders himself completely to that oblivious sleep. He thinks with a sudden terrible bottomless dread of Avril Lavigne's vagina.
~ Nick Cave
A grate wall of darkness moves towards him. He can see it coming. Wast and imperious. It is unconsciousness and it its sleep. It moves like a grate tilde wave. But before it brakes over him and he is away. Before he renders himself completely to that oblivious sleep. He thinks with a sudden terrible bottomless dread of Avril Lavignes vagina.
~ Nick Cave