The thing I greatly feared has come upon me, and what I…

“Guenever began to breathe through her nose. She was feeling as if there were two red thumbs behind her eyeballs, trying to push them…

— T.H. White

In 2006, I woke up every morning and dreaded the ballpark. I knew how difficult it was to even prepare my body to go…

— Gabe Kapler

“There it was, that dreaded word: love. I did not want to be loved, that was the burden. Unwanted love was the greatest burden…

— Margaret George The Autobiography of Henry VIII

Okay, using the dreaded middle name is not the best way to forge a bond.

— Adam Brody

“The sea of night was at low tide. That dreaded zone where the worst that has happened to you resurfaces to assail you once…

— Chantal Thomas

My dad was a Presbyterian minister. Yes, I am one of those dreaded P.K.s - Preachers Kids. Be afraid.

— Libba Bray

During my past career as a journalist, I relished writing obits and equally dreaded phoning relatives for the necessary facts. But to my surprise…

— Tom Rachman

I have written chiefly because, though I have often dreaded the necessity, I have found it more painful, in the end, not to write.

— Ellen Glasgow

I went to an arts school as a kid. We had to take dance every other day, along with drama, music and visual arts.…

— Jake Epstein

“This was not because he was cowardly and abject, quite the contrary; but for some time past he had been in an overstrained irritable…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.

— Sallust

After years in white theaters I dreaded working in colored houses. The noise, the stomping, whistling, and cheering that hadn't annoyed me when I…

— Ethel Waters

Frankly, I have always dreaded writing - there always seemed to be pain involved, unpleasant self-examination and a lot of fear.

— Trent Reznor

A thing may be dreaded as long as it has not overtaken you.

— Chanakya

My parents dreaded the fact that I was changing my life to do this, but I just kept doing it.

— Jason Mraz