Dread Quote by Robert Blair

“Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts! Unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top full Of direst…

— William Shakespeare

“Seeing the woman as she was made them remember the envy they had stored up from other times. so they chewed up the back…

— Zora Neale Hurston

“Nothing would be regarded as obscene, I feel, if men were living out their inmost desires. What man dreads most is to be faced…

— Henry Miller

For this was the round of love: fear which leads on desire, tenderness and fury, and that brutal anguish which triumphantly follows pleasure.

— Francoise Sagan

“For she was really too lovely--too formidably lovely. I was used by now to mere unadjectived loveliness, the kind that youth and spirits hang…

— Edith Wharton

“No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief, More pangs will, schooled at forepangs, wilder wring. Comforter, where, where is your comforting?…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

“What rending pains were close at hand! Death! and what a death! worse than any other that is to be named! Water, be it…

— Harriet Prescott Spofford

There will be, I think, an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of…

— Edward Hopper

“She was, in short, melted by his distress, as so often happens with the female sex. Poets have frequently commented on this. You are…

— P.G. Wodehouse

“This initial numbness and denial is shock and it is a gift. Shock is a grace period. It gives a woman time to gather…

— Glennon Doyle Melton

“Legions of grotesques sweep under his hand; for has not nature too her grotesques—the rent rock, the distorting lights of evening on lonely roads,…

— Walter Pater

Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.

— Bram Stoker