Dread Quotes

466 quotes by 370 authors

No progressive knowledge will ever medicine that dread misgiving of a mysterious and pathless power given to words of a certain import. — Thomas de Quincey
Fear is secured by a dread of punishment. — Niccolo Machiavelli
Religion and nationalism, as well as any custom and any belief however absurd and degrading, if it only connects the individual with others, are refuges… — Erich Fromm
Mother of light! how fairly dost thou go Over those hoary crests, divinely led! Art thou that huntress of the silver bow Fabled of old?… — Thomas Hood
When individuals approach one another with deep purposes on both sides they seldom come at once to the matter which they have most at heart.… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Fate steals along with silent tread, Found oftenest in what least we dread; Frowns in the storm with angry brow, But in the sunshine strikes… — William Cowper
To me so deep a silence portends some dread event; a clamorous sorrow wastes itself in sound. — Sophocles
I believe that obstinacy, or the dread of control and discipline, arises not so much from self-willedness as from a conscious defect of voluntary power;… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Do that which you dread and cherish those victories with pride. — Og Mandino
Dread of disaster makes everybody act in the very way that increases the disaster. Psychologically the situation is analogous to that of people trampled to… — Bertrand Russell
Present sufferings seem far greater to men than those they merely dread. — Livy
There is a possibility that your ability as a player may well be analysed by future generations on your one day statistics. That's the day… — Allan Border
Living well has something to do with the spirituality of wholeheartedness, of seeing life more as a grace than as a penance, as time to… — Joan D. Chittister
To ignore or use silence is a cruel tool. Hence this quote: Silence is all we dread; there's ransom in a voice; but silence is… — Emily Dickinson
Truly, there are terrible primal arcana of earth which had better be left unknown and unevoked; dread secrets which have nothing to do with man,… — H P Lovecraft
I think when people say they dread going into work on Monday morning, it's because they know they are leaving a piece of themselves at… — Tony Hsieh
The Lord never came to deliver men from the consequences of their sins while yet those sins remained...Yet men, loving their sins and feeling nothing… — George MacDonald
For many sportsmen, coming face to face with irrefutable evidence of their mortality is the moment they dread above all others. — Ian Botham
I must do something to keep my thoughts fresh and growing. I dread nothing so much as falling into a rut and feeling myself becoming… — James A. Garfield
Death happens but once, yet we feel it every moment of our lives; it is worse to dread it than to suffer it. — Jean de la Bruyere

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