Quotes About Dread

We fear the monster's capacity for evil because we recognize it in human hearts.

Leah and Gideon were left staring at each other with hollow expressions. Armies marching. War on the way.

man's inherent state of being is one of anxiety and hopelessness.

And meanwhile death was as terrible in a small man as in a great one.

Fear is more contagious than the plague and is instantly communicated.

True horror, you see, comes not from the savagery of the unexpected, but from the corruption of everyday objects, spaces.

Kötü bir resim asar?m korkusuyla hiç resim asmad?m; kötü ya?ar?m korkusuyla hiç ya?amad?m

There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.

I am afraid because I can so clearly foresee my own life rotting away of itself, like a leaf that rots without falling, while I pursue my round of existence from day to day.

The "world," after all, was still a place of bottomless horror.

She lay down beside me, Towards dawn she pronounced for the first time the word "death." She too seemed to be weary beyond endurance of the task of being a human being; and when I reflected on my dread of the world and its bothersomeness, on money, the movement, women, my studies, it seemed impossible that I could go on living. I consented easily to her proposal.

I was afraid to board a streetcar because of the conductor; I was afraid to enter the Kabuki Theater for fear of the usherettes standing along the sides of the red-carpeted staircase at the main entrance; I was afraid to go into a restaurant because I was intimidated by the waiters furtively hovering behind me waiting for my plate to be emptied.

It occurred to me that prison life might actually be pleasanter than groaning away my sleepless nights in hellish dread of the "realities of life" as led by human beings.

There are some people whose dread of human beings is so morbid that they reach a point where they yearn to see with their own eyes monsters of ever more horrible shapes.

There are some people whose dread of human beings is so morbid that they reach a point where they yearn to see with their own eyes monsters of ever more horrible shapes. And the more nervous they are -the quicker to take fright- the more violent they pray that every storm will be...

Pour moi, le monde est insondable ; c'est un lieu terrible.

There are some whose dread of human beings is so morbid that they reach a point where they yearn to see with their own eyes monsters of ever more horrible shapes.

They were of overpowering fear, not the terror the sight of ghosts in a graveyard might arouse, but rather a fierce ancestral dread that could not be expressed in four or five words, something perhaps like encountering in the sacred grove of a Shinto shrine the white-clothed body of the god.

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

I near the practice hall and pause, trying to push down my dread. Though I have trained with Astrid every day, I still have not let go and flown. Each day I wait for her to give up and tell me to leave. Come back tomorrow, she simply says

It was unsettling to be in love with someone who looked like the face in her nightmares.

Not one of them lifting a hand to save theirselves from what's coming, hoping if they're meek enough, if they're weak enough, then the monster won't eat 'em.

La muerte era como un vecino desagradable: no hablabas de él por temor a que te oyera y decidiera pasar a hacerte una visita.

only fools and priests are never afraid. But it is true that very few things unnerved him.