79 Dread Quotes for You to Enjoy

I read Gide's 'The Immoralist' over and over as a teenager. I was obsessed with it. It's written with such simplicity and dread, and the desert, the shabby colonial world, is brought right into your consciousness without being over-explained. Lawrence Osborne

World Simplicity Teenager Dread Shabby Brought Colonial Written Obsessed Over Read Without Being Your Desert Right Consciousness

The terrorist threat is so cloudy, faceless, and vague, so manipulable by political purposes, so definitely present but indefinitely manifested, that it sometimes feels interchangeable with everyday dread itself. Lee Siegel

Sometimes Political Everyday Indefinitely Definitely Dread Threat Faceless Purposes Feels Terrorist Itself Cloudy Interchangeable Manifested Present Vague

The advance of science spares us from irrational dread. Martin Rees

Science Dread Advance Irrational Spares Us

People's imagination is the most effective tool in creating terror or dread. Matt Reeves

People Imagination Tool Dread Most Terror Effective Creating

I just think that for a lot of people - not to take the focus off of myself - that feeling of imminent dread, like a cloak of black dust, was always around me. Matthew Shultz

Myself Me People Focus Black Feeling Dust Think Dread Imminent Take Like Around Always Lot Off Cloak Just

I know a lot of people dread going to work every morning, but my work is playing pretend and doing stunts and screaming. It's a lot of fun and I get to play dress up. Every day is exciting and different and new and cool. I couldn't be more grateful. Nina Dobrev

Work Day Morning Grateful Every Day People Every Dread Pretend Dress Dress-Up More Exciting New Know Stunts Doing Lot Up Get Going Screaming Different Cool Fun Play Playing

We go along, without a fixed itinerary, yet at the same time with an end (what end?) in mind, and with the aim of reaching the end. A search for the end, a dread of the end: the obverse and the reverse of the same act. Octavio Paz

Time Mind Aim Dread Along Reaching Without Go Reverse End Fixed Same Same Time Act Search

Everyone talks about the big three-oh with dread - but it's exciting. It feels like life is much more put together. Everyone's like, 'Wouldn't you like to be 20 again?' But no way. Ophelia Lovibond

Life You Together Big Everyone Way Dread About More Put Exciting Feels Like Talks Again Much

I dread the idea of a paparazzi snapping me while I'm out running. Paloma Faith

Me Paparazzi Dread Out Running Idea While

You dread that there will be real problems during filming. Ralph Fiennes

You Problems Will Dread Be Real Real Real Problems Filming

I dread my trial at the pearly gates - knowing my luck, I'll be hot on the heels of a blameless nun who will be ushered straight to a luscious cloud with prime sea views. Robert Rinder

Will Cloud Luck Nun Trial Dread Blameless Hot Prime Knowing Heels Straight Sea Views Who Gates

Slow, skinny, and an utter countryside coward: I lived in dread of nettles, spiders, and the very sound of a wasp. As a victim, I was beneath the dignity of the bullies in my year but fair game to the ones in the year below. Robert Webb

No one can actually define love, but you attempt to, and the closest you can get is longing. And that itself has a melancholy to it. You can say dread, or doom - it's that feeling we all feel when we fall in love with someone: we have this horrible, fearful feeling that maybe we will never have that person in our life. Robert Zemeckis

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Throughout my time working in restaurants, I developed an illogical dread of some basic kitchen tasks. None of them - picking and chopping parsley, peeling and mincing garlic, browning pans of ground meat - were particularly difficult. But at the scale required in a professional kitchen, they felt Sisyphean. Samin Nosrat

Time Difficult Peeling Scale Dread Restaurants Some My Time Kitchen Throughout Developed Picking Particularly Felt None Were Tasks Them Required Working Ground Meat Chopping Professional Illogical Garlic Basic

Corporate America is drowning in meetings. To make one thing clear, I am not against communication. Quick one-on-ones can be extremely effective. I am talking about those hour-long recurring meetings, devoid of a clear agenda, and attended by many. I dread them. Sebastian Thrun

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When superpower countries like the United States and the former Soviet Union contemplated moving their conflicts to outer space, there was justifiable fear and dread. Steven Levy

Fear Space States Dread Outer Outer Space Superpower Countries Contemplated Like Soviet Soviet Union Conflicts Former Moving Union United United States

I get asked to do panel shows, and reality stuff, like getting in a cage with a shark. I got asked to do a 'Strictly' special, but it's not my bag. If I'm being interviewed, that's OK, but anything else fills me with dread. Suranne Jones

It's funny, the moment you dread the most, seeing yourself bald, is actually not such a bad moment at all. Sylvie Meis

Funny You Yourself Dread Bad Seeing Most Bald Moment Actually

Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Thomas Ken

Me Live Dread Bed May Little Teach Grave

When Obama dispenses with that dread sobriquet 'professorial,' he does it by being, well, more professorial. Tina Brown

Dread Obama More He Well Does Being Dispense

Anyone who's taken a lot of creative-writing classes, or taught creative writing, has learned to dread a certain kind of manuscript. It's long, for one thing. It has irritatingly small type; it's grammatically meticulous when it comes to everything but punctuation, for which it has developed its own system of Tolkienic elaboration. Tom Bissell

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