Dread Quotes

466 quotes by 370 authors

The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. The least energizing emotion to write out of is admiration. It is… — Susan Sontag
We were that generation called silent, but we were silent neither, as some thought, because we shared the period's official optimism nor, as others thought,… — Joan Didion
Innocence has nothing to dread. — Jean Racine
Every morning I woke in dread, waiting for the day nurse to go on her rounds and announce from the list of names in her… — Janet Frame
... the greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided… — Aldous Huxley
I have a dread of sounding pretentious and try not to talk too much about what I do. — James Herbert
We must raise the salaries of our operators or they will all be taken from us, that is, all that are good for anything. You… — Samuel Morse
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
I have become that mother I used to dread. — Bridget Moynahan
Swag defines an artist, period. Lil Wayne has his super-tattooed pierces and dreads swag. Jay-Z has his New York, grown man, Beyonce and 40/40 Club… — Soulja Boy
I look forward to change, but there is a part of me that absolutely dreads it. — Erica Durance
If I ever married, I know I would dread the daily sound of the key in the door and the casual expectancy of 'Hello! I'm… — Celia Imrie
Some people love Sundays; I don't, particularly. I used to rather dread them when I was younger. I was brought up on Sunday roasts, which… — Celia Imrie
Time is my enemy. Time will catch up with me vocally. And I dread that. I dread to think about life without singing. — Tom Jones
I find I have to touch what I am working on every day, or a deep-seated dread kicks in that is very hard to overcome. — Jennifer Gilmore
I Sing what was lost and dread what was won, / I walk in a battle fought over again... — William Butler Yeats
A TV show where all of the characters are trying to figure out what's going on, and the suspense of that, fits my [voice] really… — M. Night Shyamalan
Do we indeed desire the dead Should still be near us at our side ? Is there no baseness we would hide ? No inner… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
No true love there can be without Its dread penalty--jealousy. — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook. — Horace

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