Dread Quotes

466 quotes by 370 authors

Now they stumbled in the shackles of humanity, lived in a fear that never died, fretted by a law they could not understand; their mock-human… — H.G. Wells
We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Under the Mountain dark and tall The King has come unto his hall! His foe is dead, the Worm of Dread, And ever so his… — J.R.R. Tolkien
One more time? For the audience?" he says. His voice isn't angry. It's hollow, which is worse. Already the boy with the bread is slipping… — Suzanne Collins
Funnily enough, it is the subject one dreads talking about at length one ends up talking about at length, often without the slightest provocation. — Marisha Pessl
We have educated ourselves into a world from which wonder, and he fear and dread and splendor and freedom of wonder have been banished. Of… — Robertson Davies
He felt his heart pounding fiercely in his chest. How strange that in his dread of death, it pumped all the harder, valiantly keeping him… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
When we sat down to eat I took inventory of the people in the room, and the remnants of my good mood evaporated when I… — Bret Easton Ellis
When people say, "I've told you fifty times," / They mean to scold, and very often do; / When poets say, "I've written fifty rhymes,"… — Lord Byron
There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
at first, when we truly love someone, our greatest fear is that the loved one will stop loving us. what we should fear and dread,… — Gregory David Roberts
[Dona Maria] saw that the people of this world moved about in an armor of egotism, drunk with self-gazing, athirst for compliments, hearing little of… — Thornton Wilder
If anyone could look into my head See or feel the dread that has captured Me or see within this sad, unhappy brain They would… — Walter Dean Myers
[All religious sects] dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight; and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversion of… — Thomas Jefferson
Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored; Light dies… — Alexander Pope
Is he a dread genetic determinist, or a dread environmental determinist? He is neither, of course, for both these species of bogeyman are as mythical… — Daniel Dennett
And all who heard should see them there, And all should cry, Beware! Beware! His flashing eyes, his floating hair! Weave a circle round him… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I never do enjoy my breaks, long or short...I look forward to them intensely, but as soon as they begin, I can feel them starting… — Sophie Hannah
...what I dread more than anything else in this life is noise...silence helps you to go inward..anyone who is interested in something more than just… — Muriel Barbery
..if you dread tomorrow, it's because you don't know how to build the present, you tell yourself you can deal with it tomorrow, and it's… — Muriel Barbery

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