Quotes tagged ‘dread’

“Something awful happened here. I can feel it. Something awful.”

— Brian Clemens, Jan Curtis, Lynn Holly Johnson, imdb.com

“Oh dear, how uneasy I feel.”

— James Lapine, Little Red Riding Hood, Lilla Crawford, imdb.com

“I know what it's like to lose. To feel so desperately that you're right, yet to fail nonetheless. [grabs Thor by the head] It's frightening, turns the legs to jelly. But I ask you, to what end? Dread it. Run from it. Destiny arrives all the same. And now, it's here. Or should I say...I AM. [reveals…”

— Stephen McFeely, Christopher Markus, Thanos, Josh Brolin, imdb.com

“Michael Corleone: I spent my life protecting my son. I spent my life protecting my family! Kay Corleone: Let's be reasonable here, Michael. I mean, that's your big thing, isn't it? Reason backed up by murder. Michael Corleone: Oh, God, you hate me. You hate me. Kay Corleone: No, I don't hate you, Mi…”

— Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola, Don Michael Corleone, Al Pacino, imdb.com

“I was always afraid of my mum or dad dying when I was a child. I used to play this game where if I ran on the road and stepped on a cracked paving slab, it meant that something bad was going to happen to them.”

— Ozzy Osbourne, theguardian.com

“No matter how secure we are, we all experience moments of dread. It may be just before we open our credit card bill or hand over a note to our teacher or step on the scale after a week away from the gym. Yes, we all experience moments of dread. And sometimes, we have no one to blame but ourselves.”

— Marc Cherry, Mary Alice Young, Brenda Strong, imdb.com

“No matter who we are, we all experience moments of dread. When we ask ourselves: Will anyone believe I'm innocent? Will my daughter be a child of divorce? Will this man break my heart? Are there things that go bump in the night? And sometimes, the answer is yes.”

— Marc Cherry, Brian Tanen, imdb.com

“In hospitals they say you know. You know when you're going to die. Some doctors say it's a look patients get in their eyes. Some say there's a scent, a smell of death. Some say there's just some kind of sixth sense, when the great beyond is heading for you, you feel it coming. Whatever it is, it's c…”

— Shonda Rhimes, Dr. Meredith Grey, Ellen Pompeo, imdb.com

“It hurts me. It hurts me, knowing what I've done. And that pain—that pain is with me all the time. And every day I think that if I just...if I just give myself over to the blood, I can make that pain stop. It would be that easy. And every day I fight that. And I am so terrified that one day...I not…”

— Kevin Williamson, Julie Plec, Stefan Salvatore, Paul Wesley, imdb.com

“You don't think I know how you're feeling, every second of the day? Looking over your shoulder to see if someone's coming up from behind. Sitting alone at night, knowing they could be closing in.”

— Peter Mehlman, Newman, Wayne Knight, imdb.com

“I don't think there's ever been an appointment in my life where I wanted the other guy to show up.”

— Larry David, Jerry Seinfeld, George Costanza, Jason Alexander, imdb.com

“That dreadful house...that dreadful house.”

— Mary Todd Lincoln, amazon.com

“There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.”

— Laura Ingalls Wilder, amazon.com

“I know something about dread myself, and appreciate the elaborate systems with which some people fill the void, appreciate all the opiates of the people, whether they are as accessible as alcohol and heroin and promiscuity or as hard to come by as faith in God or History.”

— Joan Didion, amazon.com

“When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?”

— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com

“It is a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.”

— J.K. Rowling, amazon.com

“The antidote to joy is dread.”

— Sam Hamm, amazon.com