Dread Quotes

466 quotes by 370 authors

What am I always going to do? I'm going to go home and freak out.I'm going to sit with my family and try not to… — Ned Vizzini
There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of… — Karl Marx
A womanâ€™s magazine quiz: Question: You decide to do the dread deed and just as things are starting to get hot he comes, rolls over,… — Christopher Moore
If there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am… — Samuel Beckett
It began as most thing begin. Not on a dark and stormy night. Not foreshadowed by ominous here comes the villain music, dire warning at… — Karen Marie Moning
There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home. — Laura Ingalls Wilder
Oh, I'm being eaten By a boa constrictor, A boa constrictor, A boa constrictor, I'm being eaten by a boa constrictor, And I don't like… — Shel Silverstein
For most of my life I've been a listener. At least in the beginning, I think the reason I listened so intently was to have… — Steve Rasnic Tem
You know I'm old in some ways-in others-well, I'm just a little girl. I like sunshine and pretty things and cheerfulness-and I dread responsibility. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I was filled with dread at the thought my mind had skipped town and left me behind to pay the rent." --Dexter — Jeff Lindsay
Others of us are lost. We're forever seeking. We torture ourselves with philosophies and ache to see the world. We question everything, even our own… — Lisa Unger
...it is easy not to believe in monsters, considerably more difficult to escape their dread and loathsome clutches. — Stanislaw Lem
The world dread nothing so much as being convinced of their errors. — William Hazlitt
Something did happen to me somewhere that robbed me of confidence and courage and left me with a fear of discovery and change and a… — Joseph Heller
I soon came to understand that drink, tobacco and prostitutes were all great means if dissipating (even for a few moments) my dread for human… — Osamu Dazai
As a survival-happy species, our successes are calculated in the number of years we have extended our lives, with the reduction of suffering being only… — Thomas Ligotti
She lost much of her appetite. At night, an invisible hand kept shaking her awake every few hours. Grief was physiological, a disturbance of the… — Jeffrey Eugenides
I dread no more the first white in my hair, Or even age itself, the easy shoe, The cane, the wrinkled hands, the special chair:… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
There is a certain freedom in giving up all hope. One is no longer bound by the cords of dread or fear; you simply move… — Rachel Caine
That's the strangest thing about this life, about being in the ministry. People change the subject when they see you coming. And then sometimes those… — Marilynne Robinson

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