Top 100 Quotes About Dread
#1. out of the forest. The dwarf sprang up in a fright, but he could not reach his cave, for the bear was already close. Then in the dread of his heart he cried: 'Dear Mr Bear, spare me, I will
Jacob Grimm
#2. Humans without humanity, A world of dread and fear for eternity.
Mouloud Benzadi
#3. You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common sense attitude; that you could take it for granted that I was deluded
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#4. 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
#5. We obscure our self-knowledge with anxiety; that it is not what we desire but what we fear and dread we may desire that impedes us - a
John Cheever
#7. Truly the souls of men are full of dread: Ye cannot reason almost with a man That looks not heavily and full of fear.
William Shakespeare
#8. Big occasions and races which have been eagerly anticipated almost to the point of dread, are where great deeds can be accomplished.
Jack Lovelock
#9. Lucky's gut churned with dread. I couldn't have told them anything about Lick, about her secret meeting with Grunt. Alpha would have thrown her out - or killed her. I just hope I made the right decision.
Erin Hunter
#10. The amateur believes he must first overcome his fear; then he can do his work. The professional knows that fear can never be overcome. He knows there is no such thing as a fearless warrior or a dread-free artist.
Steven Pressfield
#11. The men in those old days of the seventeenth century, when in constant dread of attacks by Indians, always rose when the services were ended and left the house before the women and children, thus making sure the safe exit of the latter.
Alice Morse Earle
#12. The Witch was too much afraid of the dark to dare go in Dorothy's room at night to take the shoes, and her dread of water was greater than her fear of the dark.
L. Frank Baum
#13. Waiting for salvation, his faith transcends the dread of the moment; the desires of the oppressed will be sharpened by the courage to be and the will to live.20
Samuel Terrien
#14. Let's go on a road trip and like it, not dread it! There are no barriers, there is no fear.
Wayne W. Dyer
#15. Whispers of death crawled through her brain like insects swarming a feast. Murmurs of pain and torture sent shivers of dread down her spine. Gathering her courage, Alaina turned to face him.
"It all started with the attic . . .
Gina Salamon
#16. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was in nostalgia, nor forward to what it might be in dread or anticipation, but living in the present relationship and accepting it as it is now.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#17. You know you are getting old when yesterday turns out to be a fading memory you have difficulties recollecting, when today becomes a challenge that is hard to grasp and when tomorrow promises an uncertainty that you dread encountering.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#18. Time is my enemy. Time will catch up with me vocally. And I dread that. I dread to think about life without singing.
Tom Jones
#19. It is the fool who is haunted by fears, dread of dangers, oppression of mind, not the wise man.
Gautama Buddha
#22. With The Dread, first kiss was the beginning. Second kiss was the end.
Luke Taylor
#24. If a dread of not being understood be hidden in the breasts of other young people to anything like the extent to which it used to be hidden in mine - which I consider probable, as I have no particular reason to suspect myself of having been a monstrosity - it is the key to many reservations.
Charles Dickens
#25. They talked trees from morning till night. It stirred in her the old subconscious trail of dread, a trail that led ever into the darkness of big woods; and such feelings, as her early evangelical training taught her, were temptings. To regard them in any other way was to play with danger.
Algernon Blackwood
#26. Dark-heaving; boundless, endless, and sublime,
The image of Eternity,
the throne
Of the Invisible! even from out thy slime
The monsters of the deep are made; each zone
Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
George Gordon Byron
#27. Literature offers feelings for which we don't have to pay. It allows us to love, condemn, condone, hope, dread, and hate without any of the risks those feelings ordinarily involve.
Jonathan Gottschall
#28. Who has reached the extreme limits of scale with the same infallible precision, equally guarded against the false refinement of artificial elegance and the roughness of spurious force? Who has better known how to breathe anguish and dread into the purest and most exquisite forms?
Charles Gounod
#29. She watched his face as earnestly as he watched the river. But, in the intensity of her look there was a touch of dread or horror.
Charles Dickens
#30. I always dread the process of writing because I'm not a writer. I'm an audible guy, I'm a verbal guy. I love to talk. I write a book every couple years, but it just takes everything out of me to get a book out.
T.C. Boyle
#31. I came to dread what I might discover next in the cruel world of men
Jean Sasson
#32. I was thinking about New York and realized how much I hate walking around in the winter and how much I dread getting on the train.
Frankie Cosmos
#33. You achieve strength, braveness and confidence by each experience in which you really halt to search dread during the deal with
Eleanor Roosevelt
#34. Dread = Uncontrollability + Unfamiliarity + Imaginability + Suffering + Scale of Destruction + Unfairness
Amanda Ripley
#35. Every day lasts a year. I never enjoy anything. And every morning when I wake up I dread having to face the world again.
James Herriot
#36. My laps-meter, the first caliper of the soul and the first hope of bridging the dread chasm that has rent the soul of Western man ever since the famous philosopher Descartes ripped body loose from mind and turned the very soul into a ghost that haunts its own house.
Walker Percy
#37. There's a funny thing I've noticed about life. When you really dread something, it turns out not to be so bad. It's the unexpected awful things that get you down.
Elizabeth Laird
#38. He was smothered by dread. Fear. A horrible sense of being hunted.
And then one of the automaton lions turned its head toward him. The eyes shone red. Red like blood. Red like fire.
They could smell it on him, the illegal book. Or maybe just his fear
Rachel Caine
#39. He that shrinks from the grave with too great a dread, has an invisible fear behind him pushing him into it.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#40. It's the beginning of your day. You awake and look around you, feeling perhaps a joyful expectation, or perhaps an awful dread. No matter which, remember this: God loves you with an infinite love.
Marianne Williamson
#41. People struggle with moments of deep dread about life and moments of surety. Often within the course of the same day. Life is a roller coaster, especially if you take risks.
Ann Nocenti
#42. The conclusion I dread is not, "So there's no God after all," but, "So this is what God's really like.
C.S. Lewis
#44. We dread life's termination as the close, not of enjoyment, but of hope.
William Hazlitt
#45. I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like the state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.
George Bernard Shaw
#46. And that is how we are. By strength of will we cut off our inner intuitive knowledge from admitted consciousness. This causes a state of dread, or apprehension, which makes the blow ten times worse when it does fall.
D.H. Lawrence
#47. Love, from its awful throne of patient power
In the wise heart, from the last giddy hour
Of dread endurance, from the slippery, steep,
And narrow verge of crag-like agony, springs
And folds over the world its healing wings.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#48. I looked where he was tapping.
"Local Girl Missing, Feared Dead"
Beneath it was a photo or me-my most recent school photo. "Oh no." My heart filling with dread, i took the paper from Mr. Smith's hands. "Couldn't they have found a better picture?
Meg Cabot
#49. I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.
Charles M. Schulz
#50. Careful observers may foretell the hour
(By sure prognostics) when to dread a show'r.
While rain depends, the pensive cat gives o'er
Her frolics, and pursues her tail no more.
Jonathan Swift
#51. Why exactly are we so frightened of death that we avoid looking at it altogether? Somewhere, deep down, we know we cannot avoid facing death forever. We know, in Milarepa's words: "This thing called 'corpse' we dread so much is living with us here and now."
Sogyal Rinpoche
#53. The artist accepts the limitations of form, not with fear and dread, but as the starting point of creation.
Laurence Boldt
#54. When the imagination is continually led to the brink of vice by a system of terror and denunciations, people fling themselves over the precipice from the mere dread of falling.
William Hazlitt
#56. At twenty-four she imagined with dread that she was growing old.
Jean Rhys
#57. God knows," Charpentier said, "I like the present scheme of things very little, but I dread to think what will happen if the conduct of reform falls into hands like yours."
"Reform?" Camille said. "I'm not talking about reform. The city will explode this summer.
Hilary Mantel
#58. [ ... ] as if the next thing must quickly come along to occupy her, or the abyss might open. What abyss? The abyss that waits for all of us, when all our actions seem futile, when the ability to fill the day seems stalled, and the waiting takes on an edge of dread.
Anita Brookner
#59. The executive, in our government is not the sole, it is scarcely the principle, object of my jealousy. The tyranny of the legislature is the most formidable dread at present and will be for many years. That of the executive will come in its turn, but it will be at a remote period.
Thomas Jefferson
#60. In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.
Toni Morrison
#61. Hours can pass like years when you wait impatiently for something, especially something you crave and dread at the same time.
Tara Hudson
#62. He realized that he was manacled hand and foot with fetters that were only more intolerable because they consisted of nothing more substantial than the dread of causing pain.
W. Somerset Maugham
#63. Far more than dreading ending up in a care home myself, I dread having to put my husband in one.
Laurie Graham
#64. Time was, I shrank from what was right, From fear of what was wrong; I would not brave the sacred fight, Because the foe was strong. But now I cast that finer sense And sorer shame aside; Such dread of sin was indolence, Such aim at heaven was pride. J. H. NEWMAN.
Mary W. Tileston
#65. Even though she felt a wave of dread. If they knew she was nervous, she'd be at their mercy. But if they thought she was ice they'd be afraid to touch her.
Alice Hoffman
#66. This life, so thrift and vague, nothing, but toil and worries, dread, and casts our souls into eternal journey of no return
Michael Bassey Johnson
#67. Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine;
Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine!
Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored;
Light dies before thy uncreating word:
Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall;
And universal darkness buries all.
Alexander Pope
#68. 33 but s whoever listens to me will dwell secure and will be t at ease, without dread of disaster.
Anonymous
#69. 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
#70. I think there are two types of people - those who view life's uncertainty with dread and fear, and those who recognize that life's unpredictability is what makes life worth living.
Christopher E. Long
#71. When you can classify something, it helps pin it down into a thing you can handle instead of a nameless dread.
Megan Kearney
#72. Hidden within the heart of every man is that small boy who shudders at those dread things who shuffle among the shadows
James D. Doss
#73. I was overtaken by a dread of utter solitude in the great turning world.
Peter Matthiessen
#74. Souls who can recognize God in the most trivial, the most grievous and the most mortifying things that happen to them in their lives, honor everything equally with delight and rejoicing, and welcome with open arms what others dread and avoid.
Jean-Pierre De Caussade
#75. We don't get to choose how we're born, Miranda, and very rarely how we die; but we get to choose how we live. Life is too short to spend in dread and guilt.
Dianne Sylvan
#76. War doesn't mature men; it merely pickles them in the brine of disgust and dread.
Rex Stout
#78. As much as we thirst for approval, we dread condemnation.
Hans Selye
#79. Me & the dread yo, give em some head blow Long as he know he keep me flier than a Red Bull
Nicki Minaj
#81. The devil's aversion to holy water is a light matter compared with a despots dread of a newspaper that laughs.
Mark Twain
#82. Inviolable, untrod; goddesses,
Dread brood of Earth and Darkness, here abide.
Sophocles
#83. What wouldst thou do, old man?
Think'st thou that duty shall have dread to speak
When power to flattery bows?
William Shakespeare
#84. If we always live
in constant fear
then we might miss
the beauty of the moment
right now, right here.
S. Tarr
#86. Unfortunately, what I am waiting for is myself, as others hahahaha on streets where squabbles threaten and desire is dread.
Morrissey
#87. I wake up with a sense of wonder. I don't dread the future. I like it.
Eileen Myles
#88. I mean, the idea of losing a parent is really inconceivable. I think there's just an undertone of dread about the subject, so people don't talk about it and don't prepare for it.
Laura Linney
#89. When you borrow trouble against what might be, you neglect the moment you have now to enjoy. The man who worries about what will next be happening to him loses this moment in dread of the next, and poisons the next with pre-judgment.
Robin Hobb
#90. suddenly the window flew open, swung back and forth on its hinges, as if something was about to come in, and she waited in dread for what that something might be.
Edna O'Brien
#91. Is not dread of thirst when your well is full, the thirst that is unquenchable?
Kahlil Gibran
#92. And in the months since the destruction of the Empire's dread battle station, we have already liberated countless planets in the name of the Alliance.
Chuck Wendig
#93. I dread karaoke. I hate karaoke. I can't sing - that is why.
Clive Owen
#94. An elaborate system of etiquette and social standards flowered around the home phone: how long a child might be allowed to stay on the phone, how late one could call without being impolite, and of course, the dread implications of a late night call which violated that norm.
John Battelle
#95. Refuse the anxiety. When you borrow trouble against what might be, you neglect the moment you have now to enjoy. The man who worries about what will next be happening to him loses this moment in dread of the next, and poisons the next with pre-judgement.' Berandol's
Robin Hobb
#96. O, lack and doubt and fear can only come
Because of plenty, confidence, and love!
They are the shadow-forms about their feet,
Because they are not perfect crystal-clear
To the all-searching sun in which they live.
Dread of its loss is Beauty's certain seal!
George MacDonald
#97. The procrastinator dreads beginning, the workaholic, ending.
James Richardson
#98. That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay.
Brian Aldiss
#99. Personal well-being serves solely to excavate within your soul a chasm which waits to be filled by a landslide of dread, an empty mold whose peculiar dimensions will one day manufacture the shape of your unique terror
Thomas Ligotti
#100. There is a fear of the Lord which is the beginning of wisdom, which is founded in love. There is also a slavish fear, which is a mere dread of evil, and is purely selfish.
Charles Grandison Finney
