Dread Quotes

466 quotes by 370 authors

I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread. — Robert Anton Wilson
I liked school, but I used to dread those moments when the teacher would call me up to give an oral report. I forced myself… — Steven Wright
Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all. — William Butler Yeats
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a… — H P Lovecraft
It is a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
The changes we dread most may contain our salvation. — Barbara Kingsolver
I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that… — Edgar Allan Poe
Oh, the terrible struggle that I have had against sleep so often of late; the pain of the sleeplessness, or the pain of the fear… — Bram Stoker
Ah! What would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life. — Charlotte Bronte
I do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and I do not live in chronic dread of disaster. It is no happiness, but… — Ayn Rand
it is much safer to be feared than loved because ...love is preserved by the link of obligation which, owing to the baseness of men,… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt! May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, heart-wrung tears as poured from mine. May… — Charlotte Bronte
Fare well we call to hearth and hall Though wind may blow and rain may fall We must away ere break of day Over the… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Her chief dread in life, at this period of her development, was that she would appear narrow minded; what she feared next afterwards was that… — Henry James
The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest; It blesseth… — William Shakespeare
Suddenly Ka realized he was in love with Ä°pek. And realizing that this love would determine the rest of his life, he was filled with… — Orhan Pamuk
The average age (longevity) of a meat eater is 63. I am on the verge of 85 and still work as hard as ever. I… — George Bernard Shaw
The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door, the… — Terry Pratchett
It's hard for me, a Jew, to stay in the moment. Without the past, where is the guilt? And without the future, where is the… — Christopher Moore

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