Bananas are great, as I believe them to be the only known cure for existential dread. Also, Mother Teresa said that in… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
They are, as it were, train-bearers in the pageant of life, and hold a glass up to humanity, frailer than itself. We… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The key to overcoming aloneness and a feeling of uselessness for one who is physically able is to step outside yourself by… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
It was a murky confusion — here and there blotted with a color like the color of the smoke from damp fuel… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
We create an image of who we are inside our self. The image then becomes very deeply entrenched, and it becomes the… — Douglas Hofstadter Copy Share Image
“It was a myth you couldn't function on opiates: shooting up was one thing but for someone like me-jumping at pigeons beating… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
There's a terrible sense of dread filtering across America at the moment and it's not simply because of the continuing fear of… — Bob Herbert Copy Share Image
“But it’s more than that. It’s the same icy dread that fills her each time she starts to imagine it; not just… — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
There are characters in some short stories who exist as people, and there are other characters in different short stories who exist… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
But I was wrong. I should have known it wasn't owver, couldn't be over quite easily. No sooner was Xavier out of… — Alexandra Adornetto Copy Share Image
A great dread fell on him, as if he was awaiting the pronouncement of some doom that he had long foreseen and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
From the top of a high rock, I obtained a good few of the most extensive and dreary wilderness I ever beheld.… — John James Audubon Copy Share Image
In a typical desperation for quick answers, easily understood, people had turned to primitive worship as the solution. With less than success.… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I liked school, but I used to dread those moments when the teacher would call me up to give an oral report.… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
“Is it necessary that Heaven should borrow its light from the glare of Hell? Infinite punishment is infinite cruelty, endless injustice, immortal… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Adultery is the vice of equivocation. It is not marriage but a mockery of it, a merging that mixes love and dread… — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
Home is the one place in all this world where hearts are sure of each other. It is the place of confidence.… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
In the various states of society, armies are recruited from very different motives. Barbarians are urged by the love of war; the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The daemonic-divine object may appear to the mind an object of horror and dread, but at the same time it is no… — Rudolf Otto Copy Share Image
Every morning I woke in dread, waiting for the day nurse to go on her rounds and announce from the list of… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
Oh, I'm being eaten By a boa constrictor, A boa constrictor, A boa constrictor, I'm being eaten by a boa constrictor, And… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
Any issue and any problem, no matter what height you look at it from, no matter how much you extend past the… — El-P Copy Share Image
O eternal truth and true love and beloved eternity! You are my God; to you I sigh by day and by night.… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Much-Afraid, don't ever allow yourself to begin trying to picture what it will be like. Believe me, when you get to the… — Hannah Hurnard Copy Share Image
“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Who knows when the end is reached? Death may be the beginning of life. How do I know that love of life… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
I don't doubt that every prince would like to be both; but since it is hard to accomodate these qualities, if you… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
The art of decoration requires the most sophisticated and self-indulgent skills. Its aim has always been to sate the senses as gloriously… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
What am I always going to do? I'm going to go home and freak out.I'm going to sit with my family and… — Ned Vizzini Copy Share Image
He felt his heart pounding fiercely in his chest. How strange that in his dread of death, it pumped all the harder,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A cruel joke has been played on us. We are fated always to remember what we learned but never to recall the… — Jo Coudert Copy Share Image
Always in the big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there will be, along… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
That's the strangest thing about this life, about being in the ministry. People change the subject when they see you coming. And… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The contrast between the two, the sweetness and the badness, wrenches the heart of the lover as such sweetness on its own… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Man's desire for the approval of his fellows is so strong, his dread of their censure so violent, that he himself has… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I became entirely given over to extreme dread. The fear was so powerful that it seemed to make my personality completely evaporate...… — Whitley Strieber Copy Share Image
We must raise the salaries of our operators or they will all be taken from us, that is, all that are good… — Samuel Morse Copy Share Image
The Social Security program is a pact between workers and their employers that they will contribute to a common fund to ensure… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
