Dread Quotes - Page 26

• people who refuse to take risks live with a feeling of dread that is far more severe than what they would feel if they took the risks necessary to make them less helpless - only they don't know it!

  Susan Jeffers

  People, Feelings, Risk

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• Adultery is the vice of equivocation.
  It is not marriage but a mockery of it, a merging that mixes love and dread together like jackstraws. There is no understanding of contentment in adultery.... You belong to each other in what together you've made of a third identity that almost immediately cancels your own. There is a law in art that proves it. Two colors are proven complimentary only when forming that most desolate of all colors--neutral gray.

  Alexander Theroux

  Art, Color, Law

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• Think not I dread to see my spirit fly,
  Through the dark gates of fell mortality;
  Death has no terrors when the life is true;
  'Tis living ill that makes us fear to die.

  Omar Khayyam

  Dark, Thinking, Spirit

  Omar Khayyam (1882). “The Quatrains of Omar Khayyám”

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• The Administration of the United States is such dread I almost feel paralyzed.

  Toni Morrison

  Administration, United States, Feels

  Source: wordmag.com

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• I'm a writer in the world. I translate the confusion that I might feel, the dread that I know I feel, moving towards some other place, moving away from puny language, from all that dread into some other kind of language.

  Toni Morrison

  Moving, Confusion, World

  Source: wordmag.com

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• Too many companies are happy to have workers to dread working. They have the wrong attitude because they have the wrong leadership.

  Michael J. Silverstein

  Attitude, Company, Workers

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The contrast between the two, the sweetness and the badness, wrenches the heart of the lover as such sweetness on its own would not, and the lover shudders all the more at dread of the beloved's recklessness, for the sake of the sweetness that is there, and the shudder only makes more violent the shuddering that announces love.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Heart, Two, Sake

  Rebecca Newberger Goldstein (2014). “Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away”, p.295, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The dread was built into the 2016 election - a little spoonful of dread.

  Barry Blitt

  Littles, Election, Built

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• There are characters in some short stories who exist as people, and there are other characters in different short stories who exist as purely literary constructs. You know, the young man in "Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Secret House of the Night of Dread Desire" - I probably got that right - is a literary construct, and enjoys being a literary construct. He has no life off stage, whereas the young men in "How to Talk to Girls at Parties" were as near to being real human beings as I could possibly get them.

  Neil Gaiman

  Girl, Real, Party

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I kind of dread any kind of critical response, just because it's always painful in some way. Even if it's 80 percent good, it's the 20 percent that's bad that you remember - and that's a higher number than I usually get, 80 percent would be amazing.

  David Duchovny

  Kind, Remember, Painful

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I certainly don't mean to leave the impression that anxiety can be waved away with a simple pep talk. In fact, for some, God's healing will include the help of therapy and/or medication. If that's the case, do not for a moment think that you're a second-class citizen of heaven. Ask God to lead you to a qualified counselor or physician who'll provide the treatment you need. This much is sure: It's not God's will that you lead a life of perpetual anxiety. It's not his will that you face every day with dread and trepidation.

  Max Lucado

  Healing, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• There's nothing weirder than when your band finally gets big and you're playing sold-out arenas and you're selling millions of records, and you dread being a part of it all. It wasn't some master plan to go solo. I was just like, I would rather do my own thing, be happy, and have it be ten times less popular. That was really it. It just wasn't fun, the stress.

  Rob Zombie

  Fun, Stress, Selling

  Interview with Andrew Paul, believermag.com. November 20, 2017.

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• Unseen University had never admitted women, muttering something about problems with the plumbing, but the real reason was an unspoken dread that if women were allowed to mess around with magic they would probably be embarrassingly good at it.

  Terry Pratchett

  Real, Magic, Unseen

  Terry Pratchett (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld”, p.17, Harper Collins

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• 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

  Crush, Selfish, Simple

  "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: An Essay". Book by David Foster Wallace, 1997.

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• The [Great] Actor is able to approach in himself a cosmic dread as large as life. He is able to go from his dread to a joy so sweet that it is without limit. Only then will the actor have direct access to the life that moves in him, which is as free as his breathing. And like his breathing, he doesn't cause it to happen. He doesn't contain it, and it doesn't contain him.

  Joseph Chaikin

  Sweet, Moving, Breathing

  Joseph Chaikin (1993). “The Presence of the Actor”, p.10, Theatre Communications Group

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