#dread

A certain atmosphere of breathless and unexplainable dread of outer, unknown forces must be present; and there must be a hint, expressed with a seriousness and portentousness becoming its subject, of that most terrible conception of the human brain - a malign and particular suspension or defeat of those laws of Nature which are our only safeguard against the assaults of chaos and the daemons of unplumbed space .... Therefore we must judge a weird tale not by the author's intent, or by the mere mechanics of the plot; but by the emotional level which it attains at its least mundane point... The one test of the really weird is simply this - whether or not there be excited in the reader a profound sense of dread, and of contact with unknown spheres and powers; a subtle attitude of awed listening, as if for the beating of black wings or the scratching of outside shapes and entities on the known universe's utmost rim. ↗

— H.P. Lovecraft

#fantastic #fantasy #horror #supernatural #weird

For most of my life I've been a listener. At least in the beginning, I think the reason I listened so intently was to have a chance of hearing the train before it ran over me. ↗

— Steve Rasnic Tem

#foreshadowing #listening #worry #life

Well, I think again, the worst part of it was just leading up to it, before we got on set, at least for me... dreading this idea that I was just going to suck and I really had strong feelings about that. I just didn't want to be that weak link. ↗

— Tea Leoni

#again #before #dreading #feelings #going

I dreaded doing close-ups. ↗

— Jessie Matthews

#dreaded #i

Liberty means responsibility. That's why most men dread it. ↗

— Antonio de Mendoza

#liberty #means #men #most #responsibility

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest. ↗

— Ludwig von Mises

#construction #dreadful #evil #more #new

She gave me another piece of information which excited other feelings in me, scarcely less dreadful. Infants were sometimes born in the convent; but they were always baptized and immediately strangled! ↗

— Maria Monk

#another #baptized #born #convent #dreadful

Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#because #black #constant #dread #everywhere

I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#dreadful #end #eyes #frailties #i

Composers today get a TV script on Friday and have to record on Tuesday. It's just dreadful to impose on gifted talent and expect decent music under these conditions. ↗

— Alex North

#conditions #decent #dreadful #expect #friday