Top 100 Quotes About Dread
#1. It's the end game that people dread and that's what I'm scared of
Terry Pratchett
#2. Face each day with the expectation of achieving good, rather than the dread of falling short.
Shannon Miller
#3. Someday, you know, we're going to be shown the great ledger of our recorded decisions-a dread concept you nonetheless know in your deepest soul is true.
Leif Enger
#4. My fears are agitated to an extreme degree and the dread of death involves me in a stupor of chilling indisposition.
John Clare
#5. I really dread serious people. Especially serious, dogmatic people. I regard them as sort of what Reich called the emotional plague. I regard them as very dangerous.
Robert Anton Wilson
#6. The generation of consumers who swallow this pessimistic sentiment can't see past the product to its debased morality. Instead, their excitement about The Dark Knight's dread (that teenage thrall with subversion) inspires their fealty to product.
Armond White
#7. If I am killed, I can die but once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again.
Abraham Lincoln
#9. My childhood was full of deep sorrows - colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a Deity in the sky who was angry when I ate too much plumcake.
George Eliot
#10. I mean that I value vision, and dread being struck stone blind.
Charlotte Bronte
#13. We do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and we do not live in chronic dread of disaster. We do not expect disaster until we have specific reason to expect it - and
Ayn Rand
#14. The element of dates I dread. To kiss or not to kiss, I hated that question.
Jamie McGuire
#15. It's the idea that anticipation is as scary as anything in a movie could be. People's imagination is the most effective tool in creating terror or dread.
Matt Reeves
#16. I see no need in taking part in forced adolescent social rituals that would do nothing but stir up emotions of dread for all involved.
Jennifer Mathieu
#17. I didn't always dread going home. But when my family began to collapse I learned to stay away, avoid getting trapped beneath all the debris.
Kelsey Sutton
#18. I do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and I do not live in chronic dread of disaster. It is no happiness, but suffering that I consider unnatural. It is not success, but calamity that I regard as the abnormal exception in Human Life.
Ayn Rand
#19. If there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am I doing.
Samuel Beckett
#20. Humans do not proceed in an orderly fashion from one scene to the next. Memory lies underneath happenstance; hope and dread sprawl on top. Our days and nights are their endless orgies.
Catherynne M Valente
#21. I will confess that almost all my inspiration has come from one emotion: fear. And terrible dread of the moment when I will finally be exposed as a fraud.
Carol Loomis
#22. If! If! If! There were so many ifs in life, never any sense of security, always the dread of losing everything ...
Margaret Mitchell
#23. To crush, to annihilate a man utterly, to inflict on him the most terrible of punishments so that the most ferocious murderer would shudder at it and dread it beforehand, one need only give him work of an absolutely, completely useless and irrational character.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
#24. For many sportsmen, coming face to face with irrefutable evidence of their mortality is the moment they dread above all others.
Ian Botham
#25. Present sufferings seem far greater to men than those they merely dread.
Livy
#26. Suicide is a whispered word, inappropriate for polite company. Family and friends often pretend they do not hear the word's dread sound even when it is uttered. For suicide is a taboo subject that stigmatizes not only the victim but the survivors as well.
Earl A Grollman
#27. WHEN YOU HEAR that now ubiquitous but dread phrase, 'I find that offensive', you know you're being told to shut up. It
Claire Fox
#28. I dread this power he has over me. It makes me want to tell him all my secrets and see if he still wants me.
Amanda Bouchet
#29. His face in my dreams,
seizing my guts,
he floods me with dread.
Soaked in soul,
he swims in my eyes
by the bed.
Pour myself over him,
moon spilling in
And I wake up alone.
Amy Winehouse
#30. Pascal meditated upon outer space, but we need only turn our thoughts inward to feel his dread. Inside every one of our skulls lies an organ so vast in its complexity that it might as well be infinite.
Sebastian Seung
#31. You know I'm old in some ways-in others-well, I'm just a little girl. I like sunshine and pretty things and cheerfulness-and I dread responsibility.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#32. [She] looked as if her nerves were quivering with the expectation that something would be thrown at her. But she never had anything worse than words to dread.
George Eliot
#33. Writing has often been accompanied by terror, silences, and then wild bursts of private laughter that suddenly make all the dread seem worthwhile.
Erica Jong
#34. The dead don't die. Death is something a living person suffers through, once the dead are gone from here. The departed don't know anything about dread, or longing, or the inevitable. They leave that to the survivors.
Scott Kelly
#35. The essay form has superceded the novel as the vehicle that best suggests the prevailing apocalyptic gestalt, and as the talisman that is most able to repel the onset of paralysing dread.
Adam Parfrey
#36. Under the Mountain dark and tall The King has come unto his hall! His foe is dead, the Worm of Dread, And ever so his foes shall fall.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#37. To fear only God's power with trembling and dread without fearing (or respecting) His astonishing love is an incomplete response that diminishes our experience and enjoyment of Him.
David Jeremiah
#38. Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen.
Epictetus
#39. The power-loving temperament is more dangerous when it either prefers or is forced to operate in what is materially a void. Wehave everything to dread from the dispossessed.
Elizabeth Bowen
#40. Eight grown Americans out of ten dread the coming of the Fourth, with its pandemonium and its perils, and they rejoice when it is gone-if still alive.
Mark Twain
#41. The antidote to joy is dread.
Sam Hamm
#43. The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. The least energizing emotion to write out of is admiration. It is very difficult to write out of because the basic feeling that goes with admiration is a passive contemplative mood.
Susan Sontag
#44. Nature reaches out to us with welcoming arms, and bids us enjoy her beauty; but we dread her silence and rush into the crowded cities, there to huddle like sheep fleeing from a ferocious wolf.
Khalil Gibran
#45. Dread is a sympathetic antipathy and an antipathetic sympathy ...
Soren Kierkegaard
#46. Hence that dread and amazement with which as Scripture uniformly relates holy men were struck and overwhelmed whenever they beheld the presence of God. Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance until they have.
John Calvin
#47. When we are no longer motivated by fear, we understand that every moment is perfect in its own way. We no longer dread what we can't control; we learn to respect the wisdom of Spirit rather than impose our will on situations. This is the path of genuine power.
Alberto Villoldo
#48. I didn't know why this was happening. The cruel reality of anxiety is that you never quite do. At the moments it should logically strike, I am fit as a fiddle. On a lazy afternoon, I am seized by a cold dread.
Lena Dunham
#49. With what dread and apprehension we entrust important jobs into the hands of others. Imagine the love of a needless God who is willing to want our work.
Calvin Miller
#50. Why live life from dream to dream? And dread the day when dreaming ends.
Baz Luhrmann
#51. 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
#52. The priests of the different religious sects . . . dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight, and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subdivision of the duperies on which they live. - THOMAS JEFFERSON
Richard Dawkins
#53. This was what happiness felt like - this wondrous, miraculous alternative to dread.
Meg Rosoff
#54. What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.
John Howe
#55. Like one, that on a lonesome road
Doth walk in fear and dread,
And having once turned round walks on,
And turns no more his head;
Because he knows, a frightful fiend
Doth close behind him tread.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#56. My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
William Tecumseh Sherman
#57. I was now at a university in New York, a professor of existential psychology with the not inconsiderable thesis that magic, dread, and the perception of death were the roots of motivation.
Norman Mailer
#59. The great power and malignity of Satan is seen in that among the most distressing cases were those who were not noted for great sins, but the young and comparative innocent ones were the victims of his dread power.
E. M. Bounds
#60. Dread begins to inch in. No. Dread isn't one of those subtle emotions. It moves in and takes over, and then it drips and hands, like Spanish moss.
Deb Caletti
#62. 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
#63. Mr. Pony struggled manfully with the engineer's permanent dread of having to commit himself to anything, and managed, "Well, if we don't lose too many staff, and the winter isn't too bad, but of course there's always -
Terry Pratchett
#64. I'm the Dread Pirate Roberts, but you can call me 'Weasley.
William Goldman
#65. Instead of living in the dread or the joy of the future, may we have the intention to live in the Real of the now.
Maximus Freeman
#66. He is much to be dreaded who stands in dread of poverty.
Publilius Syrus
#67. In times of dread it's good to have an old man along. An old man has seen worse.
Leif Enger
#68. Actors dread working with studios because they dictate what you do in a way that independent movies can't.
Jesse Eisenberg
#69. Two world wars in twenty-one years, and the universal dread of nuclear incineration. This time God has given us John Paul II,
Fulton J. Sheen
#70. And who's to say that Horatia is not Lucien's perfect match?" Audrey asked.
"If she is I dread to think what that says about our sister," Cedric muttered.
-His Wicked Seduction
Lauren Smith
#71. The past is so much safer, because whatever's in it has already happened. It can't be changed; so, in a way, there's nothing to dread.
Margaret Atwood
#72. I know a lot of people dread going to work every morning, but my work is playing pretend and doing stunts and screaming. It's a lot of fun and I get to play dress up. Every day is exciting and different and new and cool. I couldn't be more grateful.
Nina Dobrev
#73. The best I could say about third grade was that it was a more or less continuous state of dread.
Sonia Sotomayor
#74. You keep only darkness, my distant female,
from your regard sometimes the coast of dread emerges.
Pablo Neruda
#75. The advance of science spares us from irrational dread.
Martin Rees
#76. I dread the idea of a paparazzi snapping me while I'm out running.
Paloma Faith
#77. This I hold to be the chief office of history, to rescue virtuous actions from the oblivion to which a want of records would consign them, and that men should feel a dread of being considered infamous in the opinions of posterity, from their depraved expressions and base actions.
Tacitus
#78. Only humans dread. Dread is appropriate to nothing. It's the surplus of animal fear, it's never indicated, it's nothing but itself.
China Mieville
#79. I was filled with dread at the thought my mind had skipped town and left me behind to pay the rent.
Dexter
Jeff Lindsay
#80. Fear of self is the greatest of all terrors, the deepest of all dread, the commonest of all mistakes. From it grows failure. Because of it, life is a mockery. Out of it comes despair.
David Seabury
#81. Winter's hard-packed snow Cedes to the fruitful summer; stubborn night At last removes, for day's white steeds to shine. The dread blast of the gale slackens and gives Peace to the sounding sea; and Sleep, strong jailer, In time yields up his captive. Shall not I Learn place and wisdom?
Michael K. Kellogg
#82. I wish I could fill every young man who reads these pages with an utter dread and horror of poverty. I wish I could make you so feel its shame, its constraint, its bitterness that you would make vows against it.
Orison Swett Marden
#83. It's hard for me, a Jew, to stay in the moment. Without the past, where is the guilt? And without the future, where is the dread? And without guilt and dread, who am I?
Christopher Moore
#84. Very early in my life I took the question of the relation of art to truth seriously: even now I stand in holy dread in the face of this discordance. My first book was devoted to it. The Birth of Tragedy believes in art on the background of another belief
Friedrich Nietzsche
#85. But she shook with rage, and got up one of those conjugal scenes which make a peaceable man dread the domestic hearth more than a battlefield where bullets are raining.
Guy De Maupassant
#86. He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.
William Gilmore Simms
#87. Still reeling from the touch of her husband's lips on her, Trudy didn't know whether to feel relief or dread that she'd married Seth Flanagan for better or worse. But from the fireworks of excitement swirling in her middle, she figured on both.
Debra Holland
#88. Eldon doesn't have to play if he doesn't want to," Tobias repeated, his fist tightening on the fork.
Eldon sensed with dread that their aunt was in great danger of being stabbed.
Ash Gray
#89. How many of the things I fear or dread are actually things that I want?
Augusten Burroughs
#90. In love afairs, there is no mediator like a merry, simple-hearted child - ever ready to cement divided hearts, to span the unfriendly gulf of custom, to melt the ice of cold reserve, and overthrow the separating walls of dread formality and pride.
Anne Bronte
#91. Hey, Chess, I know I've never dated a woman, but the thought of you leaving fills me with fucking dread. Because I don't want to be your friend anymore. I just want to be yours.
Kristen Callihan
#92. Custodians of our peace of mind, the focus of our understandable and rightful dread of being inferior; official censors, judges, and executors.
Ray Bradbury
#93. Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.
Emile M. Cioran
#94. We go along, without a fixed itinerary, yet at the same time with an end (what end?) in mind, and with the aim of reaching the end. A search for the end, a dread of the end: the obverse and the reverse of the same act.
Octavio Paz
#95. [A ruler is merely] the trustee of the rights of other men and he must always stand in dread of having in some way violated these rights.
Immanuel Kant
#96. Please choose the way of peace.. In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, nor never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause.
Mother Teresa
#97. I feel terribly strange, like a shadow, and full of dread. I dread the time ahead, the amputating time, I do not see how to manage it. I do not want the world to go dark and narrow and mean, and the world has been very unlovely in my eyes, and I very unlovely in it ...
Martha Gellhorn
#98. Scandal is the sport of its authors, the dread of fools, and the contempt of the wise.
William Benton Clulow
#99. I have this thing I say to myself that 'tomorrow can be better.' And I remember that period in my life where I never felt like tomorrow could be better. It was always dread for the next day.
Clara Hughes
