Dread Quotes

466 quotes by 370 authors

Anything is a temptation to those who dread it. — Jean de la Bruyere
No disease of the imagination is so difficult to cure, as that which is complicated with the dread of guilt : fancy and conscience then… — E. M. Forster
A critic recently described me, with deadly acuteness, as having 'a kindly dislike of my fellow-creatures.' Perhaps dread would have been nearer the mark than… — George Bernard Shaw
We have on the one hand a desperate need; hunger, sickness, and the dread of war. We have, on the other, the conception of something… — C.S. Lewis
When the imagination is continually led to the brink of vice by a system of terror and denunciations, people fling themselves over the precipice from… — William Hazlitt
Dread not events unknown, and be not downhearted, for the fountain of the water of life is involved in obscurity. — Bill Vaughan
Peace is in the grave. The grave hides all things beautiful and good. I am a God and cannot find it there, Nor would I… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Le silence eÂ ternel de ces espaces infinis m'effraie. The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread. — Blaise Pascal
I am a person who dreads any kind of public exposure and any kind of public event. I spend all day, if I have to… — Junot Diaz
Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all… — Joan Didion
Actors dread working with studios because they dictate what you do in a way that independent movies can't. — Jesse Eisenberg
When you do a play, you have the kind of nightly feeling of accomplishment. But you also have the daily dread of the doing it… — Jesse Eisenberg
I dread the idea of a paparazzi snapping me while I'm out running. — Paloma Faith
You dread that there will be real problems during filming. — Ralph Fiennes
I want to have a good time myself. I don't want to dread going to work no matter what the gig is. I think, selfishly,… — Tom Hanks
Travelling fills me with dread. — Tom Hodgkinson
The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at… — Aldous Huxley
A man who dreads trials and difficulties cannot become a revolutionary. If he is to become a revolutionary with an indomitable fighting spirit, he must… — Kim Jong Il
There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble. — Washington Irving
My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me. — Thomas Jefferson

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