149 Quotes About Dread

Confidence is what we get when we take fear, face it and replace it.

Dread spilled over the Englishman, dread of a world in which he could not die, a world without fear, a meaningless world. Fear permeated all that he knew to be good in life: love, danger, adventure. That was the secret he carried with him and that carried him along. But why venture without fear? You can lie down in the desert and face the beast or the vulture or the villain and mock his weapons and his desires, but to what end? Without fear, what matter if they bite or peck or stab you?

Today was another day full of dread,But I never said I was afraid.Dread and fear should not be confused;By dread I'm inspired, by fear I'm amused.

Like you, I dream, I choke on night-dread. Like you, I have often wondered why fears reign at night. After twenty years of such wondering, I now believe that fears are not born of darkness; rather, fears are like the stars—always there, but obscured by the glare of daylight.

If only it were over, done, without the awful doing of it.

I lived on Dread —To Those who knowThe Stimulus there isIn Danger — Other impetusIs numb — and Vitalless —As 'twere a Spur — upon the Soul —A Fear will urge it whereTo go without the Sceptre's aidWere Challenging Despair.

I don’t like it. I would prefer no one else became tied up in this. But some things can’t be helped. War is harsh.”“We’re not at war.”“Yet.

Danger will come upon us when it will. We can't stop it. We can only try to be prepared. There's no point in looking ahead to that danger and suffering its effects even before it comes to us.

The blessings of the devil is the beginning of dread.