Dreaded Quotes

“it was not going she dreaded—only leaving.”

— Sarah Miller

Hidden evils are most dreaded.

— Martial

If you are dreaded by many then beware of many.

— Decimius Magnus Ausonius

“ennui—that dreaded mire of the human emotions.”

— Amor Towles

I dreaded doing close-ups.

— Jessie Matthews

I've always dreaded the sea - in fact, I get terribly seasick.

— Hugh Grant

He is much to be dreaded who stands in dread of poverty.

— Publilius Syrus

I turned down dates because I dreaded sitting in front of a plateful of food.

— Markie Post

“Aging is dreaded the most by people whose income is entirely dependent on their looks.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded.

— George Washington

The dreaded phrase in design circles is 'show and tell.'

— David Carson

Putting is not an art, it's a dreaded evil. No wise man ever said that.

— Dan Jenkins

I am not cute. I am the dreaded Grim Reaper. People fear me, you know. There's a whole song about it.

— Rachel Vincent

“This was why Kiki had dreaded having girls: she knew she wouldn't be able to protect them from self-disgust.”

— Zadie Smith

I was technically a Valley Girl, even though I absolutely dreaded being called that. I really hated the idea that I was…

— Robin Wright

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

— Chantal Thomas

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

— Margaret George The Autobiography of Henry VIII

Every time I stepped on the practice field when I was in San Diego, I dreaded going to work. It wasn't any…

— Ryan Leaf

“She was tired of people saying things they thought she wanted to hear almost as much as she dreaded them saying the…

— Freya North

A lot of people have trouble with their second novel - the dreaded sophomore jinx. I wrote three books in between the…

— Claire Cameron

Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval - a thing which, to the general run of the human race, is more…

— Mark Twain

“If there was a God up there, which there wasn’t, why was it that he worked so hard to identify whatever thing…

— Richard Herley

For most of my adult life, I dreaded the day I woke up and saw my mother in the mirror. It never…

— Jane Leavy

Looking back, I realise it wasn't only gym I dreaded at school. Every class was a torment. It wasn't knowledge I objected…

— Howard Jacobson

“All that is bad and dreaded is projected into the other, and all the anxiety is seen as the product of external…

— Jessica Benjamin

“This is what I feared would come; this is what I have dreaded. It is not very bright and honorable as you…

— Philippa Gregory

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

— Jake Epstein

In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Passages' was published, I…

— Gail Sheehy

There are questions, about the past, the future, commitment, and then, there are a handful of those dreaded questions too - about…

— Melchor Lim

“Franklin, I was absolutely terrified of having a child. Before I got pregnant, my visions of child rearing- reading stories about cabooses…

— Lionel Shriver

“[G]randma was always afraid of something. She set aside time each day for dread. And not nameless dread. She was quite specific…

— J.R. Moehringer

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

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“when he came down with the dreaded Genghis ague (rhymes with “bay view”), today known as malaria.”

— Tom Wolfe

The three most dreaded words in the English language are 'negative cash flow'.

— David Tang

There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.

— Jonathan Swift

I dreaded having a boring life when I grew up. And I certainly can't complain about being bored.

— Ina May Gaskin

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

— Sallust

I dreaded the dance scene in 'Love Actually' more than having my teeth extracted.

— Hugh Grant

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

— Publilius Syrus

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

— Epictetus