Top 100 The Dread Quotes
#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. 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
#3. With The Dread, first kiss was the beginning. Second kiss was the end.
Luke Taylor
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. Me & the dread yo, give em some head blow Long as he know he keep me flier than a Red Bull
Nicki Minaj
#7. 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
#8. Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down.
Frederick Douglass
#9. How should a man caught in this net of routine not forget that he is a man, a unique individual, one who is given only this one chance of living, with hopes and disappointments, with sorrow and fear, with the longing for love and the dread of the nothing and of separateness?
Erich Fromm
#10. Our first love-letter ... There is so much to be said, and which no words seems exactly to say - the dread of saying too much is so nicely balanced by the fear of saying too little. Hope borders on presumption, and fear on reproach.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
#11. It had all been fake, a choreographed event, but they could not escape the dread that rattled inside their chests. It was a testament to their proficiency and talent as artists. They had affected themselves with the authenticity of the moment.
Kevin Wilson
#13. It isn't the experience of today that drives men mad. It is the remorse for something that happened yesterday, and the dread of what tomorrow may disclose.
Robert Jones Burdette
#14. Deep within every man there lies the dread of being alone in the world, forgotten by God, overlooked among the tremendous household of millions and millions.
Soren Kierkegaard
#15. The death close before me was terrible, but far more terrible than death was the dread of being misremembered after death
Charles Dickens
#17. Smart people duck when they hear the dread announcement 'I'm going to be perfectly honest with you.
Judith Martin
#18. Procrastination expert Rita Emmett explains: "The dread of doing a task uses up more time and energy than doing the task itself.
Barbara Oakley
#19. It never occurred to him to ask her what sort of demeanor she preferred. He didn't have to strategize or even scheme. Later he knew what the dread had been dread of. He hadn't had to promise her anything, it turned out. It was all for free.
David Foster Wallace
#20. I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.
Dennis Potter
#22. The whole world is put in motion by the wish for riches and the dread of poverty.
Samuel Johnson
#23. Vets' fees. And the fifth curse is the kicker: the dread that you'll be the one who loses it all.
David Mitchell
#24. I think writer's block is simply the dread that you are going to write something horrible. But as a writer, I believe that if you sit down at the keys long enough, sooner or later something will come out.
Roy Blount Jr.
#25. Love of life is born of the awareness of death, of the dread of it.
Ian Fleming
#26. It was the dread that comes about when you are allowed to have something that seems costly and yet you're not asked for payment.
Helen Oyeyemi
#27. Sorrow itself is not so hard to bear As the thought of sorrow coming. Airy ghosts, That work no harm, do terrify us more Than men in steel with bloody purposes. Death is not dreadful; 'tis the dread of death - We die whene'er we think of it!
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
#28. No disease of the imagination is so difficult to cure, as that which is complicated with the dread of guilt : fancy and conscience then act interchangeably upon us, and so often shift their places, that the illusions of one are not distinguished from the dictates of the other.
E. M. Forster
#29. The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.
John Locke
#30. The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.
Cyril Connolly
#31. A woman scorn'd is pitiless as fate,
For then the dread of shame adds stings to hate.
William Gifford
#32. Hark! o'er the dread abyss the sea-bird screams
The rocks resound
again the lightning gleams!
John Ramsay
#33. He makes His ministers a flame of fire. Am I ignitable? God deliver me from the dread asbestos of 'other things'.
Elisabeth Elliot
#34. I'm reasonably easygoing. Messing up my lines or making a fool of myself is where you find my fears. Like a lot of English people, I'm prey to embarrassment - the dread that everyone's sort of sniggering at you, that you're going to look like an idiot. I think that sort of halts us all.
Hugh Laurie
#35. ... you know that Sunday-night feeling, where the dread of reality sinks in, that you've mismanaged your time and now the anxiety of homework and the wasteland of early mornings and school stretches ahead of you? Well, I hope he has that feeling every minute of every day of his entire life.
Emery Lord
#36. The Bedouin was troubled by a familiar bundle of Middle Eastern bogeys: America in general and the CIA in particular; Jews, or if not Jews, then Christians; women's sexuality - both the fear of a "past" and the dread of present emancipation signaled by the absence of a veil.
Geraldine Brooks
#37. The dread that had been rising all morning rose higher in his throat as if by capillary action.
Anthony Doerr
#38. The dread of futility has been my life-long plague.
Maya Angelou
#39. If anyone could look into my head See or feel the dread that has captured Me or see within this sad, unhappy brain They would only turn away Turn away.
Walter Dean Myers
#40. The furtive closing of a door is a sound the wind can make a dozen times in an hour. A flow of damp air from the lake can make any house feel empty. Such currents pull one's dreams after them, and one's own dread is always mirrored upon the dread that inheres in things.
Marilynne Robinson
#41. All people suffer from the dread of death, but we are mostly troubled by the uncertainties of time and circumstance.
Roderick Graham
#42. The dread of being stares us in the eye, and in a deadly gush we perceive how the minds are dangling in threads of their own spinning, and that a hell is lurking underneath.
Peter Wessel Zapffe
#43. Humanity without religion is equivalent to a slave without its chains. To end human fear is to end human faith. Beyond the dread of death humanity has no need for delusions of an afterlife. A single human mind void of religion can accomplish more than a thousand thoughtful of God.
C.J. Anderson
#44. I swear by the mighty power of Amon-Ra, whose anger can shatter the world, and by the dread power of Set, that I will never betray my trust as High Priest of Karnak.
Griffin Jay
#45. (life science) definitions. The question that runs through these disputatio is the following: What if "horror" has less to do with a fear of death, and more to do with the dread of life?
Eugene Thacker
#46. Simplicity of manner is the last attainment. Men are very long afraid of being natural, from the dread of being taken for ordinary.
Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey
#47. Squat, thick-bodied, swarthy, with the unmistakable stamp of Indian blood on his features, he was the dread Apachito himself- Mister Fifteen Thousand Dollars, in the language of the bounty hunting trade.
Joe Millard
#48. It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.
Barbara Kingsolver
#49. A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death.
William Hazlitt
#50. Scandal is the sport of its authors, the dread of fools, and the contempt of the wise.
William Benton Clulow
#51. And Anakin is on his way despite the dread boiling through his blood. That's what makes him a real hero. Not the way the HoloNet labels him; not without fear, but stronger than fear.
He looks the dragon in the eye and doesn't even slow down.
Matthew Woodring Stover
#52. Crushed between the fears of going forward and the dread of going back.
Jim Crace
#53. Woman," Westley roared, "you are the property of the Dread Pirate Roberts and you ... do ... what ... you're ... told!
William Goldman
#54. Not hardly." Reese lowered his pistol, letting the dread work through him in a tremble. "That was
just a battle cry.
Willowy Whisper
#55. The desire of posthumous fame and the dread of posthumous reproach and execration are feelings from the influence of which scarcely any man is perfectly free, and which in many men are powerful and constant motives of action.
Thomas B. Macaulay
#56. The dread, I learned, builds slowly. It eats away at you a little bit over time until you start questioning everything you do and feel.
Jeanie Dyer
#57. He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.
William Gilmore Simms
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. I'm the Dread Pirate Roberts, but you can call me 'Weasley.
William Goldman
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. If! If! If! There were so many ifs in life, never any sense of security, always the dread of losing everything ...
Margaret Mitchell
#65. My fears are agitated to an extreme degree and the dread of death involves me in a stupor of chilling indisposition.
John Clare
#66. Face each day with the expectation of achieving good, rather than the dread of falling short.
Shannon Miller
#67. I believe that obstinacy, or the dread of control and discipline, arises not so much from self-willedness as from a conscious defect of voluntary power; as foolhardiness is not seldom the disguise of conscious timidity.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#68. Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor. Here brave men struggled and died for the right as God gave them to see the right.
Adlai Stevenson I
#69. Cowardice, the dread of what will happen.
Epictetus
#70. He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when he has come back from battle and the dread fray.
Homer
#72. There is little peace or comfort in life if we are always anxious as to future events. He that worries himself with the dread of possible contingencies will never be at rest.
Samuel Johnson
#73. I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it.
John Le Carre
#74. Jah would never give the power to a baldhead; run come crucify the Dread.
Bob Marley
#75. The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection of fallacies which do us no harm.
Samuel Johnson
#76. All men needed the bridle of religion, which, properly speaking, was the dread of a Hereafter.
George Eliot
#77. He knew that the dread in these men's minds was not of the fact, but of his naming it - as if the fact had not existed, but his words held the power to make it exist.
Ayn Rand
#78. Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
Edith Wharton
#79. I have covered wars, before the epidemic began and since. They are all ugly and painful and unjust, but for me, nothing has matched the dread I felt while walking through the Castro, the Village, or Dupont Circle at the height of the AIDS epidemic.
Michael Specter
#80. If you regard your last day not as a punishment but as a law of nature, the breast from which you have banished the dread of death no fear will dare to enter.
Seneca.
#81. 25This day I will begin to put the dread and fear of you on the peoples who are under the whole heaven, who shall hear the report of you and shall tremble and be in anguish because of you.
Anonymous
#82. God deliver me from the dread asbestos of "other things." Saturate me with the oil of the Spirit that I may be aflame.
Jim Elliot
#83. The deeds we do, the words we say,Into still air they seem to fleet;We count them ever past;But they shall last -In the dread judgment theyAnd we shall meet.
John Keble
#84. Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.
Vivien Leigh
#85. The cause of all trouble, the root of all sorrow, the dread of every man lies in this one small word - sin. It has crippled the nature of man ... It has caused man to be caught in the devil's trap.
Billy Graham
#86. If you trace up Masonry, through all its Orders, till you come to the grand tip-top head Mason of the World, you will discover that the dread individual and the Chief of the Society of Jesus [i.e., the Superior General of the Jesuit Order] are one and the same person.
James Parton
#87. In addition to the dread of Indians, Texas held out no inducements for Mexican emigrants.
William H. Wharton
#88. Oh, the dread. The horrible, awful, dreadful, dready dread.
Marian Keyes
#89. A squirrel, Ratatosk, lives in the branches of the world-tree. It takes gossip and messages from Nidhogg, the dread corpse-eater, to the eagle and back again. The squirrel tells lies to both of them, and takes joy in provoking anger.
Neil Gaiman
#90. Distrust, not merely the old distrust of nation for nation, but a devastating distrust of human nature, gripped men like the dread of insanity.
Olaf Stapledon
#91. Humans without humanity, A world of dread and fear for eternity.
Mouloud Benzadi
#92. 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
#94. 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
#95. Big occasions and races which have been eagerly anticipated almost to the point of dread, are where great deeds can be accomplished.
Jack Lovelock
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. 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
