Dread Quotes

466 quotes by 370 authors

Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to dieâ€¦ — Thomas Hardy
It is vain to think that any weariness, however caused, any burden, however slight, may be got rid of otherwise than by bowing the neck… — George MacDonald
I looked where he was tapping. "Local Girl Missing, Feared Dead" Beneath it was a photo or me-my most recent school photo. "Oh no." My… — Meg Cabot
The world is quieter now. It is never quiet, but it can get quieter. What strange creatures we are, to find silence peaceful, when permanent… — David Levithan
The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married. — Cyril Connolly
I hear that in many places something has happened to Christmas; that it is changing from a time of merriment and carefree gaiety to a… — Julia Peterkin
Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants.… — Frederick Douglass
The first law of history is to dread uttering a falsehood; the next is not to fear stating the truth; lastly, the historian's writings should… — Pope Leo XIII
Love and Dread are brethren, and they are rooted in us by the Goodness of our Maker, and they shall never be taken from us… — Julian of Norwich
The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of… — Christopher Hitchens
I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the… — George Bernard Shaw
The [Great] Actor is able to approach in himself a cosmic dread as large as life. He is able to go from his dread to… — Joseph Chaikin
When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come. — Joseph Joubert
Eight grown Americans out of ten dread the coming of the Fourth, with its pandemonium and its perils, and they rejoice when it is gone-if… — Mark Twain
My dread is for my show to be a nostalgia act. So the key to it is how do we keep it fresh? — Joan Baez
I just think that for a lot of people - not to take the focus off of myself - that feeling of imminent dread, like… — Matthew Shultz
There are many tough sides to being a jockey. Injury is something we all dread, but spending lengthy periods in the bath or the sauna… — Tony McCoy
The men in those old days of the seventeenth century, when in constant dread of attacks by Indians, always rose when the services were ended… — Alice Morse Earle
I have covered wars, before the epidemic began and since. They are all ugly and painful and unjust, but for me, nothing has matched the… — Michael Specter
The advance of science spares us from irrational dread. — Martin Rees

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