#dread

Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#dread #great #inspires #life #more

Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fiber. ↗

— Frank Crane

#dread #fiber #gives #manhood #most

Nothing is more dreadful in life than the profound thought that death may only greet you with eternal nothingness. ↗

— Kim Elizabeth

#dreadful #eternal #greet #life #may

The first couple of pictures I wrote and directed were dreadful, because I was dealing in worlds that were not familiar to me, and writing about fantasy. They were just not anything I was really connected to. ↗

— Emilio Estevez

#anything #because #connected #couple #dealing

The Gospel having spread itself into Persia, the pagan priests, who worshipped the sun, were greatly alarmed, and dreaded the loss of that influence they had hitherto maintained over the people's minds and properties. ↗

— John Foxe

#dreaded #gospel #greatly #had #having

Bananas are great, as I believe them to be the only known cure for existential dread. Also, Mother Teresa said that in India, a woman dying in the street will share her banana with anyone who needs it, whereas in America, people amass and hoard as many bananas as they can to sell for an exorbitant profit. So half of them go bad, anyway. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#amass #america #anyone #anyway #bad

I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world. ↗

— Tanith Lee

#dreadful #else #exciting #feel #go

Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show. ↗

— Vivien Leigh

#i #lines #must #never #say

If people take an interest in you and they think there's half a chance, they might hang on. It's dreadful. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#dreadful #half #hang #interest #might

I mean, the idea of losing a parent is really inconceivable. I think there's just an undertone of dread about the subject, so people don't talk about it and don't prepare for it. ↗

— Laura Linney

#dread #i #i think #idea #inconceivable