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Now hollow fires burn out to black,And lights are fluttering low:Square your shoulders, lift your packAnd leave your friends and go.O never fear, lads, naught’s to dread,Look not left nor right: In all the endless road you treadThere’s nothing but the night.

~ A.e. Housman

A.e. Housman Death Dread Fear Future Hope Inspirational

I felt despair. The word’s overused and banalified now, despair, but it’s a serious word, and I’m using it seriously. For me it denotes a simple admixture — a weird yearning for death combined with a crushing sense of my own smallness and futility that presents as a fear of death. It’s maybe close to what people call dread or angst. But it’s not these things, quite. It’s more like wanting to die in order to escape the unbearable feeling of becoming aware that I’m small and weak and selfish and going without any doubt at all to die. It’s wanting to jump overboard.

~ David Foster Wallace

David Foster Wallace Angst Banality Death Despair Dread Ennui

And the only thing I knew how to do was to hold on as tightly as possible and count every single second until I reached the last one. The one I dreaded most.Sudden, violent, final.The end.

~ Cecilia Vinesse

Cecilia Vinesse Dread End Endings Fear Time

It's spider season. Every year, right about now, thousands of the godless eight-legged bastards emerge from the bowels of hell (or the garden, whichever's nearest) with the sole intention of tormenting humankind.

~ Charlie Brooker

Charlie Brooker Arachnophobia Dread Fear Funny Humor Humour Spiders Torment

It is for your own good to love a dare-devil rather than a holy coward. A dare-devil is a unique devil, battling your fears, your pains, conquering your uncertainties, carrying you his arms, and flying out of the corrosive fire. The coward is a trickster serpent, which vanishes in your time of despair, and appears in time of equanimity.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Michael Bassey Johnson Battle Conqueror Corrosive Cowardice Dare Devil Despair Dread Dreadful Equanimity Fear Fight Fire Food For Thought Haven Love Pain Safe Salvation Security Serpent Strong Bond Trickster True Friends Uncertainties Uncertainty

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

~ Glen Duncan

Glen Duncan Dread Fear

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

~ Nenia Campbell

Nenia Campbell Dread Fear Hunted Hunter Predator Prey Terror

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.

~ Amy Gerstler

Amy Gerstler Dread Fear

Individuals who rate high on the so-called Anxiety Sensitivity Index, or ASI, have a high degree of what's known as interoceptive awareness, meaning they are highly attuned to the inner workings on their bodies, to the beepings and bleatings, the blips and burps, of their physiologies; they are more conscious of their heart rate, blood pressure, digestive burblings, and so forth than other people are.

~ Scott Stossel

Scott Stossel Anxiety Brain Dread Fear Hope Mind Neuroscience Nice Peace Quote Science Scott Stossel Thinking

Something statuesque is approaching her. It radiates a field of dynamic tension that grows more intense the closer it comes, its shadow lengthening upon the floor. Still, she cannot turn around to see the horror behind her, for at this point she cannot move her body, which is stiff-jointed and rigid. Perhaps she can scream, she thinks, and makes an attempt to do so. But this fails, because by then there is already a firm and tepid hand that has covered her mouth from behind. The fingers on her lips feel like thick, naked crayons.

~ Thomas Ligotti

Thomas Ligotti Crayons Dread Dreams Fear Manikin

I never do enjoy my breaks, long or short...I look forward to them intensely, but as soon as they begin, I can feel them starting to end. I feel the temporariness of my freedom, and find it hard to concentrate on anything other than the sensation of it trickling away.

~ Sophie Hannah

Sophie Hannah Anxiety Dread Freedom

There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.

~ John Adams

John Adams Constitution Dread Political Parties Politics

Something did happen to me somewhere that robbed me of confidence and courage and left me with a fear of discovery and change and a positive dread of everything unknown that may occur.

~ Joseph Heller

Joseph Heller Change Confidence Courage Dread Joseph Heller Positive

And it is because we all of us know of this sombre power and its perilous manifestations, that we stand in so deep a dread of silence. We can bear, when need must be, the silence of ourselves, that of isolation: but the silence of many - silence multiplied - and above all the silence of a crowd - these are supernatural burdens, whose inexplicable weight brings dread to the mightiest soul.

~ Maurice Maeterlinck

Maurice Maeterlinck Crowd Dread Isolation Silence Soul

The dread had not left my soul.

~ Neil Gaiman

Neil Gaiman Dread Gut Feeling Intuition Soul

Paul Virilio and I, in our different ways, share an intense interest in the changes brought about by technological innovation, by cultural and social upheavals, by natural catastrophes like earthquakes and the social and architectural responses to them. I see these extreme cases as the avant-garde of a coming normality, one that we must engage creatively now, inventing new languages, rules and methods, if we are to preserve what is essential to our humanity, that is, compassion, reason, independence of thought and action.

~ Lebbeus Woods

Lebbeus Woods Art Dread Lebbeus Woods Technology

A certain atmosphere of breathless and unexplainable dread of outer, unknown forces must be present; and there must be a hint, expressed with a seriousness and portentousness becoming its subject, of that most terrible conception of the human brain - a malign and particular suspension or defeat of those laws of Nature which are our only safeguard against the assaults of chaos and the daemons of unplumbed space .... Therefore we must judge a weird tale not by the author's intent, or by the mere mechanics of the plot; but by the emotional level which it attains at its least mundane point... The one test of the really weird is simply this - whether or not there be excited in the reader a profound sense of dread, and of contact with unknown spheres and powers; a subtle attitude of awed listening, as if for the beating of black wings or the scratching of outside shapes and entities on the known universe's utmost rim.

~ H.p. Lovecraft

H.p. Lovecraft Dread Fantastic Fantasy Horror Supernatural Weird

There's no secret on how to attain a greater height, just keep climbing the ladder, don't look at the dreadful distance, lock up that negative thoughts today, and fulfil your dreams.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Michael Bassey Johnson Achieve Belief Climbing Dead Dread Dreaming Dreams Fulfilment Great Greater Height Height Hope Ladder Looking Michael Bassey Johnson Mind Mindset Optimism Optimist Perseverance Pessimism Pessimist Secret Secret Of Success Sight The Ladder Of Success Thinking Thoughts

Beauty is a thing of might and dread.Like the tempest she shakes the earth beneath us and the sky above us.

~ Kahlil Gibran

Kahlil Gibran Beautiful Beauty Dread Might Power Powerful Tempest

The antidote to joy is dread.

~ Sam Hamm

Sam Hamm Batman Dread Impending Doom Joy Killjoys Worry

Dread was always with her, an alarm system in her head, alertto her next disaster.Despite being resigned to a life of misfortune, she becameresourceful.She grudgingly noticed that things always worked out, evenwhen she claimed defeat.An inconvenient truth, yet it was right there, in her face,betraying her self-punishments and assumptions.She kept overcoming things, dammit, aggravating herself.She still felt so much joy, despite her efforts to be miserable.Her life was full of miracles and spectacles that she was afraidto rely on so she didn’t know how to enjoy, how to be thankful,without guilt.She didn’t want to win and she didn’t want to lose.Ambiguity intrigued her and she found passion in the gapsbetween hope and despair.

~ G.g. Renee Hill

G.g. Renee Hill Ambiguity Defeat Dread Gratitude Guilt Hope Joy Miracles Misfortune Resilience Self Prophecy

I dread the beginning of her new life more than words can tell, but I see some hope for her if she travels - none if she remains at home.

~ Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Collins Beginning Dread Home Hope Life New Life Remains Travel Traveling Travels Words

He did not care what the end would be, and in his lucid moments overvalued his indifference. The danger, when not seen, has the imperfect vagueness of human thought. The fear grows shadowy; and Imagination, the enemy of men, the father of all terrors, unstimulated, sinks to rest in the dullness of exhausted emotion.

~ Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad Anxiety Apathy Baggage Burden Danger To Self Depression Depressive Depressive Thinking Dread Emotional Pain Emotional Plague Guilt Indifferent Look For Hope Look For Jesus Sad Sick Suicidal Suicide Why The World Needs Jesus

All she had ahead of her was the cold water, the slow ballet.

~ Lauren Groff

Lauren Groff Depression Dread

The shadows have both been my refuge and my repulse.

~ Anthony Liccione

Anthony Liccione Despair Dread Hiding Place Hope Light Shadows Two Edge Sword

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

~ Bryant Mcgill

Bryant Mcgill Dread Life Loss Toxicity Violence Waste

Her free hand was clenched in a fist. I held still, waiting for her to say something, to tell me she should have never left me here, where her friends might look to me for help.Finally she looked at me. Her eyes were hard, but she'd let no tears fall. This is where we blame those who are responsible, Cooper, she told me, her voice very soft. The colemongers, and the bought Dogs at Tradesmen's kennel. We'll leave an offering for him with the Black God when all this is done, and we'll occupy ourselves with tearing these colemongers apart. all right? We put grief aside for now.

~ Tamora Pierce

Tamora Pierce Anger Bad News Blame Dread Grief Guilt Justice Response

When he came home early, he was dreary. There, he'd sit by the fireplace, his worn hands gripping the newspaper a bit too tight, his eyes held to it, unseeing, towards the words, the meaningless grouping of letters on that newspaper. The fire would cackle, sizzle, full of life, so opposite to this man, whose face was crossed with the burdens of the world, and lips pressed thing under that bushy mustache. His grief sat on him like a cloud, sending him into a dimension that left his eyes two empty coals, his chest an impossible storm. He spoke to no one, and hardly did anyone speak to him, because words were never something he was good at. Then, when the sky darkened, he's stand, and trudge to his room, where his bed waited, cold and hungry, just as he'd always known it to be.

~ Rana Mohamad

Rana Mohamad Beautiful Dread Misery Sadness

Paranoia. The more you think of an imaginary problem, the more you feel as though it’s real –

~ Simona Panova

Simona Panova Afraid Cardew Dread Fake False Fantastic Fantasy Fear Freya Gothic Gothic Romance Horrified Horror Imaginary Imagination Imagine Imagined Lie Lies Love Story Mystery Nightmare Nightmarish Nightmarish Sacrifice Paranoia Paranoid Pretend Problem Real Reality Romance Sacrifice Scared Suspense True Truth Young Adult

Humans do not proceed in an orderly fashion from one scene to the next. Memory lies underneath happenstance, hope and dread sprawl on top. Our days and nights are their endless orgies.

~ Catherynne M. Valente

Catherynne M. Valente Dread Hope Memory

It is good to stay in a peaceful poverty than to stay in a painful wealth.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Michael Bassey Johnson Anger Careful Cherish Christian Corrupt Doing Evil Dread Dreams Ends Endurance Evil Failure Faith Flesh Happiness Hustle Hustling Income Life Materialism Michael Bassey Johnson Mistake Mistakes Money Pain Painful Pains Pauper Peace Peace Of Mind Poverty Temptation Tormented Torments Trials Trying Wealth

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

~ Tim Fargo

Tim Fargo Afraid Agitation Alarm Angst Anxiety Apprehension Apprehensiveness Bold Boldness Confidence Confidence And Attitude Confident Consternation Dismay Distress Doubt Doubtful Doubtfulness Doubting Doubts Dread Fear Fear Of Failure Fearfulness Fears Foreboding Fright Hesitation Horror Motivation Nerves Nervousness Panic Perturbation Terror Trepidation Unease Uneasiness Worry

A worm of fear wriggled in Jaden’s stomach, and the ethereal assuredness he channeled moments before evaporated as the worm burrowed deeper. When he next spoke, his own voice of trapped hysteria broke through, the worm having reached journey’s end.

~ Courtney Kirchoff

Courtney Kirchoff Confidence Dread Fear

...a redoubtable alchemy was at work behind impenetrable veils as the forest prepared its nocturnal mysteries.

~ Julien Gracq

Julien Gracq Dread Mystery Night Unseen

The blessings of the devil is the beginning of dread.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Michael Bassey Johnson Beginning Blessing Blessings Bloody Devil Dread Horror

I forgot to supannoyancefrom his glass full ofmingled dread and rageNow let me takea small draught of solacefrom my own little cupfull of predicaments!From the poem- Draught

~ Munia Khan

Munia Khan Annoyance Cup Domestic Abuse Domestic Violence Draught Dread Drop Glass Mingle Poem Poetry Poetry Quotes Predicament Rage Sip Small Solace

People dread silence because it is transparent; like clear water, which reveals every obstacle—the used, the dead, the drowned, silence reveals the cast-off words and thoughts dropped in to obscure its clear stream. And when people stare too close to silence they sometimes face their own reflections, their magnified shadows in the depths, and that frightens them. I know; I know.

~ Janet Frame

Janet Frame Dread Fear Quiet Silence

The rocking of the boat by the waves was soothing but unknown. The men on the shore were asleep. Not the twelve-year-old, though. He shifted and lay on his back and decided to look up at the sky. What he saw took him by surprise. He was basically a city kid. He had never really seen the night sky for what it is. As he stared up at millions of stars, he was filled with a dread he had never known before.I was just a boy, I said to my wife in a hotel room in Cornwall. I was just a boy on a boat in the universe.

~ Joseph O'neill

Joseph O'neill Dread Night Sky Solitude Universe

I dread having to call the police, as I have no idea if they will send good cop, bad cop, lying cop, incompetent cop, aggressive cop, assaulting cop, corrupt cop, or the worst one of them all, the terminator cop.

~ Steven Magee

Steven Magee 911 999 Aggressive All Assaulting Bad Call Cop Corrupt Corruption Dread Enforcement Good Government Government Abuse Government Corruption Have Having Idea Incompetent Law Lying One Police Send Sheriff Terminator Worst

It’s like I’m on a roller-coaster ride, but I’m not allowed to get off. I’m strapped to the seat, and within eyesight the unfinished twirl of the track swirls into the air.

~ Danielle Esplin

Danielle Esplin Cancer Defeated Dread Emotional Emotions Roller Coaster
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