Dread Quotes

466 quotes by 370 authors

I'm relieved Peeta's alive. I tell myself again that if I get killed, his winnings will benefit my mother and Prim the most. This is… — Suzanne Collins
Suffering... is not just lots of pain but pain amplified by distinctly human emotions such as regret, self-pity, shame, humiliation, and dread. — Michael Pollan
Not that I am (I think) in much danger of ceasing to believe in God. The real danger is of coming to believe such dreadful… — C.S. Lewis
The one test of the really weird (story) is simply this--whether or not there be excited in the reader a profound sense of dread, and… — H P Lovecraft
And wonder, dread and war have lingered in that land where loss and love in turn have held the upper hand. — Simon Armitage
How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them. — Barbara Kingsolver
A great dread fell on him, as if he was awaiting the pronouncement of some doom that he had long foreseen and vainly hoped might… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Why live life from dream to dream? And dread the day when dreaming ends. — Baz Luhrmann
Underground. Which I hate. Like mines and tunnels and 13. Underground, where I dread dying, which is stupid because even if I die aboveground, the… — Suzanne Collins
Come, hearken then, ere voice of dread, with bitter tiding laden, shall summon to unwelcome bed a melancholy maiden! We are but older children, dear,… — Lewis Carroll
Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Always in the big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there will be, along with the feelings… — Wendell Berry
Nothing is more frightening than a fear you cannot name. — Cornelia Funke
I mean that I value vision, and dread being struck stone blind. — Charlotte Bronte
But I was wrong. I should have known it wasn't owver, couldn't be over quite easily. No sooner was Xavier out of sight than a… — Alexandra Adornetto
The dread of futility has been my life-long plague. — Maya Angelou
Her free hand was clenched in a fist. I held still, waiting for her to say something, to tell me she should have never left… — Tamora Pierce
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
One can say this in general of men: they are ungrateful, disloyal, insincere and deceitful, timid of danger and avid of profit...Love is a bond… — Niccolo Machiavelli
For the first time in my life I tasted death, and death tasted bitter, for death is birth, is fear and dread of some terrible… — Hermann Hesse

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