People's imagination is the most effective tool in creating terror or dread. — Matt Reeves Copy Share Image
You don't have to think very hard to realize that our dread of both relationships and loneliness ... has to do with… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
..if you dread tomorrow, it's because you don't know how to build the present, you tell yourself you can deal with it… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
Ought a man to be confident that he deserves his good fortune, and think much of himself when he has overcome a… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology. — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
The act of writing is either something the writer dreads or actually likes, and I actually like it. Even re-writing's fun. You're… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before. — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
...what I dread more than anything else in this life is noise...silence helps you to go inward..anyone who is interested in something… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“A certain atmosphere of breathless and unexplainable dread of outer, unknown forces must be present; and there must be a hint, expressed… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Even before 9/11 I was gripped by a sense of dread: our lack of criticism about what we were doing in the… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
Wonder has no opposite; it springs up already doubled in itself, compounded of dread and desire at once, attraction and recoil, producing… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
... love dreads being isolated, being left to speak in a void -- at the beginning it would often rather listen than speak. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
And all who heard should see them there, And all should cry, Beware! Beware! His flashing eyes, his floating hair! Weave a… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Draw nigh to God, so that you may dread the grave as little as your bed. Draw nigh to God, that you… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
Fate steals along with silent tread, Found oftenest in what least we dread; Frowns in the storm with angry brow, But in… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Who doubting tyranny, and fainting under Fortune's false lottery, desperately run To death, for dread of death; that soul's most stout, That,… — Francis Beaumont Copy Share Image
I am not myself apt to be alarmed at innovations recommended by reason. That dread belongs to those whose interests or prejudices… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Peace is in the grave. The grave hides all things beautiful and good. I am a God and cannot find it there,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The desire of posthumous fame and the dread of posthumous reproach and execration are feelings from the influence of which scarcely any… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
