{"quotes":[{"text":"In your dread of dictators you established a state of society in which every ward boss is a dictator, every financier a dictator, every private employer a dictator, all with the livelihood of the workers at their mercy, and no public responsibility. And to symbolize this state of things, this defeat of all government, you have set up in New York Harbour a monstrous idol which you call Liberty. The only thing that remains to complete this monument is to put on its pedestal the inscription written by Dante on the gate of Hell ‘All hope abandon, ye who enter here.","author":"George Bernard Shaw","tags":["america","dictator","dread","fear","politics","socialism"],"id":5482,"author_id":"George+Bernard+Shaw"},{"text":"The antidote to joy is dread.","author":"Sam Hamm","tags":["batman","dread","impending-doom","joy","killjoys","worry"],"id":12673,"author_id":"Sam+Hamm"},{"text":"Some dark Presence watching by my bed,The awful image of a nameless dread ―.","author":"William Marshall","tags":["awful","bed","dark","dread","image","nameless","presence","watching"],"id":24830,"author_id":"William+Marshall"},{"text":"It's spider season. Every year, right about now, thousands of the godless eight-legged bastards emerge from the bowels of hell (or the garden, whichever's nearest) with the sole intention of tormenting humankind.","author":"Charlie Brooker","tags":["arachnophobia","dread","fear","funny","humor","humour","spiders","torment"],"id":30854,"author_id":"Charlie+Brooker"},{"text":"A worm of fear wriggled in Jaden’s stomach, and the ethereal assuredness he channeled moments before evaporated as the worm burrowed deeper. When he next spoke, his own voice of trapped hysteria broke through, the worm having reached journey’s end.","author":"Courtney Kirchoff","tags":["confidence","dread","fear"],"id":35018,"author_id":"Courtney+Kirchoff"},{"text":"People dread silence because it is transparent; like clear water, which reveals every obstacle—the used, the dead, the drowned, silence reveals the cast-off words and thoughts dropped in to obscure its clear stream. And when people stare too close to silence they sometimes face their own reflections, their magnified shadows in the depths, and that frightens them. I know; I know.","author":"Janet Frame","tags":["dread","fear","quiet","silence"],"id":39893,"author_id":"Janet+Frame"},{"text":"Dread was always with her, an alarm system in her head, alertto her next disaster.Despite being resigned to a life of misfortune, she becameresourceful.She grudgingly noticed that things always worked out, evenwhen she claimed defeat.An inconvenient truth, yet it was right there, in her face,betraying her self-punishments and assumptions.She kept overcoming things, dammit, aggravating herself.She still felt so much joy, despite her efforts to be miserable.Her life was full of miracles and spectacles that she was afraidto rely on so she didn’t know how to enjoy, how to be thankful,without guilt.She didn’t want to win and she didn’t want to lose.Ambiguity intrigued her and she found passion in the gapsbetween hope and despair.","author":"G.G. Renee Hill","tags":["ambiguity","defeat","dread","gratitude","guilt","hope","joy","miracles","misfortune","resilience","self-prophecy"],"id":48635,"author_id":"G.G.+Renee+Hill"},{"text":"The dread had not left my soul.","author":"Neil Gaiman","tags":["dread","gut-feeling","intuition","soul"],"id":87638,"author_id":"Neil+Gaiman"},{"text":"Paul Virilio and I, in our different ways, share an intense interest in the changes brought about by technological innovation, by cultural and social upheavals, by natural catastrophes like earthquakes and the social and architectural responses to them. I see these extreme cases as the avant-garde of a coming normality, one that we must engage creatively now, inventing new languages, rules and methods, if we are to preserve what is essential to our humanity, that is, compassion, reason, independence of thought and action.","author":"Lebbeus Woods","tags":["art","dread","lebbeus-woods","technology"],"id":95531,"author_id":"Lebbeus+Woods"},{"text":"There's no secret on how to attain a greater height, just keep climbing the ladder, don't look at the dreadful distance, lock up that negative thoughts today, and fulfil your dreams.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["achieve","belief","climbing","dead","dread","dreaming","dreams","fulfilment","great","greater-height","height","hope","ladder","looking","michael-bassey-johnson","mind","mindset","optimism","optimist","perseverance","pessimism","pessimist","secret","secret-of-success","sight","the-ladder-of-success","thinking","thoughts"],"id":108710,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":60,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}