Dread Quotes · Page 9

God deliver me from the dread asbestos of “other things.” Saturate me with the oil of the Spirit that I may be…

— Jim Elliot

People's imagination is the most effective tool in creating terror or dread.

— Matt Reeves

The people want wholesome dread. They want to fear something. They want someone to frighten them and make them shudderingly submissive.

— Ernst Rohm

... love dreads being isolated, being left to speak in a void -- at the beginning it would often rather listen than speak.

— Elizabeth Bowen

Big occasions and races which have been eagerly anticipated almost to the point of dread, are where great deeds can be accomplished.

— Jack Lovelock

Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.

— William Butler Yeats

Preachers dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight.

— Thomas Jefferson

Athenodorus says hydrophobia, or water-dread, was first discovered in the time of Asclepiades.

— Plutarch

I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to…

— Nancy Astor

I do think that dread is about a certain kind of expectation. And the fact that a picture can never resolve itself…

— Gregory Crewdson

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why…

— Anonymous

“A lump of dread jellied in her gut when she realized what she had done, the game she was in. These men…

— Dawn Patitucci

There's no secret on how to attain a greater height, just keep climbing the ladder, don't look at the dreadful distance, lock…

— Anonymous

But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes…

— William Shakespeare

I'm not an abuser. It takes me a long time to assimilate each experience. And I never have lost my respect for…

— Terence McKenna

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

“For those who think religious people live in a constant state of fear and quaking, compare Ps 111:10 to Ps 112:7. There,…

— Michael Ben Zehabe

We have educated ourselves into a world from which wonder, and he fear and dread and splendor and freedom of wonder have…

— Robertson Davies

The nephew revenges himself for this, by holding his breath and terrifying his kinswoman with the dread belief that he has made…

— Charles Dickens

By sort of combining the research of a lot of smart people, I came up with an equation for dread [dread=uncontrollability+unfamiliarity+imaginability+suffering+scale of…

— Amanda Ripley

Our society is turning toward more and more needless consumption. It is a vicious circle that I compare to cancer . .…

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

Lying is a crime the least liable to variation in its definitions. A child will upon the slightest temptation tell an untruth…

— Joseph Priestley

The three most effective incentives to human action may be ... classified as creed, greed and dread. ... In examining the scientist…

— Robert Watson-Watt

Bend down, bend down. Excess is the only ease, so bend. The sun is in the tree. Put your mouth on mine.…

— Stan Rice

If one regards life and death as natural processes, the metaphysical dread vanishes, and one obtains peace of mind.

— Peter Wessel Zapffe

I dread the inevitable acceleration of American world domination which will be the result of it all...Europe will no longer be Europe.

— Aldous Huxley

Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.

— Emile M. Cioran

I felt a dread, an unexplained anxiety around me. I couldnt put my finger on anything specific...only that sense of something evil…

— Innah Delos Angeles

“The dread that had been rising all morning rose higher in his throat as if by capillary action.”

— Anthony Doerr

What wouldst thou do, old man? Think'st thou that duty shall have dread to speak When power to flattery bows?

— William Shakespeare

If you are wise, you will dread a prosperity which only loads you with more.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

God is on the side of virtue; for whoever dreads punishment suffers it, and whoever deserves it, dreads it .

— Charles Caleb Colton

Suddenly Ka realized he was in love with İpek. And realizing that this love would determine the rest of his life, he…

— Orhan Pamuk

There is nothing a Man of good Sense dreads so much in a Wife, as her having more Sense than himself.

— Henry Fielding

If I ever married, I know I would dread the daily sound of the key in the door and the casual expectancy…

— Celia Imrie

To me so deep a silence portends some dread event; a clamorous sorrow wastes itself in sound.

— Sophocles

“I dread the beginning of her new life more than words can tell, but I see some hope for her if she…

— Wilkie Collins

For many sportsmen, coming face to face with irrefutable evidence of their mortality is the moment they dread above all others.

— Ian Botham

Oh, you a E head, oh, you a weed head I got a big gun, bigger than Maxi Priest dread

— Sean Price

“Dread begins to burrow under my skin like a parasite, slow and steady, eating away at my certainty.”

— Kimberly Belle