149 Quotes About Dread

There is more than one way to lose your life; quickly through violence, or fettered-away and wasted around dreadful, toxic people.

Only the cruelest hunters set their traps with terror and trepidation.

Terrible sadness, dread, an agonizing desire for happiness swelled in his heart.

You can't live in dread of something for long without beginning to crave it.

And when the shadow fades and is no more, the light that lingers becomes a shadow to another light.

Postpartum depression makes a woman feel like she is in the grip of something dreaded and dark, and it's scary. . . but she's likely ashamed to admit it because she can't explain it!

Thin ribbons of fear snake bluely through you like a system of rivers. We need a cloudburst or soothing landscape fast, to still this panic. Maybe a field of dracaena, or a vast stand of sugar pines—generous, gum-yielding trees—to fill our minds with vegetable wonder and keep dread at bay.

The image of the "presence," whatever it was, waiting there for him to go--this image had not yet been so concrete for his nerves as when he stopped short of the point at which certainty would have come to him. For, with all his resolution, or more exactly with all his dread, he did stop short--he hung back from really seeing. The risk was too great and his fear too definite: it took at this moment an awful specific form.

Panic and terror aren't the only kinds of fear. There are deeper kinds, more terrible kinds. Apprehension and heavy, heavy dread.