Adored Quote by Edith Wharton

“...and dread came back like a hoot from a bully on the street outside.”

— Norman Mailer

“Oh, the dread. The horrible, awful, dreadful, dready dread.”

— Marian Keyes

“Billy was guided by dread and the lack of dread. Dread told him when to stop. Lack of it told him when to move…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“He felt nervous and excited an happy and kind of filled with dread, all at the same time. It was the most emotion he'd…

— James Patterson

“I opened both eyes. Dread was sitting on my chest as if it were an animal. I mean, dread so real it had physical…

— Claire Cook

“She watched his face as earnestly as he watched the river. But, in the intensity of her look there was a touch of dread…

— Charles Dickens

“Dread begins to burrow under my skin like a parasite, slow and steady, eating away at my certainty.”

— Kimberly Belle

“I imagine that existential dread probably ought to get a devil. A devil of post-colonial angst. A devil of complicated grief.”

— Alan Moore

“It wasn’t that he was unhelpful, but he had the kind of vague, cheerful helpfulness that serious men soon learn to dread.”

— Terry Pratchett

“He knew his heart's core was a fat, awful worm. His dread was lest anyone else should know. His anguish of hate was against…

— D.H. Lawrence

“Though I no longer liked him or respected him, the thought of his disapproval frightened me.”

— Walter Kirn

“How messed up is it when you feel like you belong in a place that fills you with a sense of dread?”

— Stephen Carpenter