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Dreadful Quotes (page 17)

He felt his heart pounding fiercely in his chest. How strange that in his dread of death, it pumped all the harder, valiantly keeping him alive. But it would have to stop, and soon. Its beats were numbered. How many would there be time for, as he rose and walked through the castle for the last time, out into the grounds and into the forest? J. K. Rowling
How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that come nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams. Bram Stoker
Sophocles quote: "How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong!"
How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong! Sophocles
To write as if your life depended on it; to write across the chalkboard, putting up there in public the words you have dredged; sieved up in dreams, from behind screen memories, out of silence-- words you have dreaded and needed in order to know you exist. Adrienne Rich
Vladimir Nabokov quote: "You know, what's so dreadful about dying is that you are..."
You know, what's so dreadful about dying is that you are completely on your own. Vladimir Nabokov
Blaise Pascal quote: "The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread."
The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread. Blaise Pascal
Titanic I thought was the most dreadful piece of work I've ever seen in my entire life. Another film that I think is equally bad was American Beauty. So badly acted and directed. But people like that. Robert Altman
They grope before them like blind people and find each the other as they would a door. Almost like children that dread the night, they press close into each other. And yet they are not afraid. There is nothing that might be against them: no yesterday, no morrow; for time is shattered. And they flower from its ruins. He does not ask: 'Your husband?' She does not ask: 'Your name?' For indeed they have found each other, to be unto themselves a new generation. They will give each other a... Rainer Maria Rilke
We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it as not as dreadful as it appears, discovering that we have the strength to stare it down. Eleanor Roosevelt
They came to study the dreadful vulgarity of this imaginary Mass Man they pretend to hate. But they're fascinated with the snake-pit. Ray Bradbury
Clive Barker quote: "There’s no conscious thing on the face of the world that..."
There’s no conscious thing on the face of the world that doesn’t know dread more intimately than its own heartbeat. Clive Barker
Jane Austen quote: "What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual..."
What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance. Jane Austen
The most ordinary faces of men, and women? my own features mock me with a resemblance. The entire world is a dreadful collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her Emily Bronte
Pablo Picasso quote: "Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of..."
Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness. Pablo Picasso
And ultimately, she’s told Drs. Rusk and Tavis, she’d rather have Hal abide in the security of the knowledge that his mother trusts him, that she’s trusting and supportive and doesn’t judge or gizzard-tear or wring her fine hands over his having for instance a glass of Canadian ale with friends every now and again, and so works tremendously hard to hide her maternal dread of his possibly ever drinking like James himself or James’s father, all so that Hal might enjoy the security of feeling... David Foster Wallace

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