#dread

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of the infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. ↗

— H.P. Lovecraft

#ignorance

I have always felt that fear possesses such great power, enough to paralyze and quake an individual. Pondering this, I realized that the source of fear's power comes from within me. So, I ask myself, does that not make me the powerful one? ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#anxiety #dread #fear #obstacles #power

Find fitness with fun dancing. It is fun and makes you forget about the dreaded exercise. ↗

— Paula Abdul

#about #dancing #dreaded #exercise #find

The war in Vietnam I thought a dreadful mistake. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#i #mistake #thought #vietnam #war

I mean to say, this is the book and I really loathe it and I can't imagine what a nice Jewish boy like me ever, how I ever got into this dreadful trade. ↗

— Al Alvarez

#boy #dreadful #ever #got #how

Even before 9/11 I was gripped by a sense of dread: our lack of criticism about what we were doing in the Middle East - the slagging off of a whole religious tradition. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#before #criticism #doing #dread #east

There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#dealing #dreadful #eyes #few #few things

People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#fortunes #left #marry #men #money

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#content #day #dread #last #long

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony. ↗

— Jane Austen

#argument #being #dreadful #favor #matrimony