Top 30 Good Dread Quotes
#1. Wonderful news, a lovely day, but I don't trust good news and I don't like good weather. Dread has been my faithful companion, and without it I am alone.
Abigail Thomas
#2. Peace is in the grave. The grave hides all things beautiful and good. I am a God and cannot find it there, Nor would I seek it; for, though dread revenge, This is defeat, fierce king, not victory.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#3. The anticipation and dread he felt at seeing her was also a kind of sensual pleasure, and surrounding it, like an embrace, was a general elation
it might hurt, it was horribly inconvenient, no good might come of it, but he had found out for himself what it was to be in love, and it thrilled him.
Ian McEwan
#4. Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune.
Owen Glendower
#5. Seen no matter how and said as seen. Dread of black. Of white. Of void. Let her vanish. And the rest. For good.
Samuel Beckett
#6. Good night, Westley. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely kill you in the morning.
William Goldman
#7. The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.
John Locke
#8. The Gods are not to be feared; death cannot be felt; the good can be won; what we dread can be conquered.
Luc Ferry
#9. Horror is about fear, about rising dread and unknown terrors, and in the face of such nightmares, the acts of good people can seem insignificant.
Shane Jiraiya Cummings
#10. A truce to philosophy! - Life is before me, and I rush into possession. Hope, glory, love, and blameless ambition are my guides, and my soul knows no dread. What has been, though sweet, is gone; the present is good only because it is about to change, and the to come is all my own.
Mary Shelley
#11. It is a dreadful truth that the state of having to depend solely on God is what we all dread most ... It is good of Him to force us; but dear me, how hard to feel that it is good at the time.
C.S. Lewis
#12. I'm not a quitter. I'm a never-starter. There's a difference.
James Breakwell
#13. It is well known that to praise someone whose rivalry you do not dread is often a very good way of putting a spoke in the wheel of someone whose rivalry you do.
W. Somerset Maugham
#14. What I love about my husband is that he really allows me to be the best person I can.
Georgina Chapman
#15. I don't want to know everything about bands, I want to have some mystique remain because sometimes when you get all of this information you realize that they are just people and that actually takes away a little bit from the aura of somebody.
John Bush
#16. In times of dread it's good to have an old man along. An old man has seen worse.
Leif Enger
#17. I want to have a good time myself. I don't want to dread going to work no matter what the gig is. I think, selfishly, I will make sure that I have a good time; how about that?
Tom Hanks
#18. It won't do you any good to run if you're running the wrong way. I've developed a new philosophy ... I only dread one day at a time.
Charles M. Schulz
#19. For the first time, I was the center of attention. Everyone watched me as if I were a bomb. Would I explode and cause a disaster or would I pop and cause a miracle?
Maria V. Snyder
#20. The disappearance of the Jewish state will not mean the disappearance of anti-Semitism.
Jack Schwartz
#21. Face each day with the expectation of achieving good, rather than the dread of falling short.
Shannon Miller
#22. I say what I mean. Would you like it better if I said 'I'm glad you find me so.' That would be a little fancier, and equally true.
Thomas Harris
#23. The same common sense which makes an author write good things, makes him dread they are not good enough to deserve reading.
Jean De La Bruyere
#24. My eye roll is so intense, my head gets involved.
Stacey Jay
#25. And it was an inflexible maxim of Roman discipline, that a good soldier should dread his officers far more than the enemy.
Edward Gibbon
#26. I think of setting as almost a character of its own, influencing the other characters in ways they're not even aware of. So much of the success of a good ghost story rides on creating a creepy atmosphere; details of the landscape itself can help create a sense of dread.
Jennifer McMahon
#27. It was an inflexible maxim of Roman discipline that good soldier should dread his own officers far more than the enemy
Edward Gibbon
#28. Unseen University had never admitted women, muttering something about problems with the plumbing, but the real reason was an unspoken dread that if women were allowed to mess around with magic they would probably be embarrassingly good at it ...
Terry Pratchett
#29. THERE ARE MEMORIES we cannot escape. We take them with us wherever we go, however far, like it or not. They pursue us or accompany us in good times and in bad. We smell their scents. We hear their sounds. We delight in them or dread them. By day and by night. My
Jan-Philipp Sendker
#30. No orchard's the worse for the wintriest storm;
But one thing about it, it mustn't get warm.
"How often already you've had to be told,
Keep cold, young orchard. Good-bye and keep cold.
Dread fifty above more than fifty below."
I have to be gone for a season or so.
Robert Frost
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