149 Quotes About Dread




  • Author Artyom Dereschuk
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    The song became accompanied by the incessant scratching at the floorboards, and the cat became restless as well, its meowing and hissing intertwining into one hellish song. In his fifty years, Anton had never heard a single cat sound like that.And then, just when he thought that he could take it no more, the song, the scratching and the rest of the noises stopped, leaving only one sound behind.The sound of approaching heavy footsteps.

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  • Author Laini Taylor
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    thakrar noun - The precise point of the spectrum of awe at which wonder turns to dread, or dread to wonder. Archaic; from the estatic priestesses of Thakra, worshippers of the seraphim, whose ritual dance expressed the dualism of beauty and terror.

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  • Author Thomas M. Disch
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    The very highest thoughts, pierced with this dread, plummet to earth, snapping the branches of trees.The hunter comes upon it, not quite, it is not quite dead. A wing lifts, goes limp, and lifts again. Not quite, not quite dead.

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