Dread Quotes

466 quotes by 370 authors

The greatest dread of ordinary man is death, with its rude imposition interrupting fortuitous plans and fondest attachments with an unknown and unwelcome change. The… — Paramahansa Yogananda
You can t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty. And least of all… — Joseph Conrad
They are, as it were, train-bearers in the pageant of life, and hold a glass up to humanity, frailer than itself. We see ourselves at… — William Hazlitt
There is nothing a man of good sense dreads in a wife so much as her having more sense than himself. — Henry Fielding
You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
I became entirely given over to extreme dread. The fear was so powerful that it seemed to make my personality completely evaporate... 'Whitley' ceased to… — Whitley Strieber
One of my favorite vampire movies is 'Nosferatu,' which has a palpable sense of dread that's a pre-war dread. — Anton Yelchin
I dread the inevitable acceleration of American world domination which will be the result of it all...Europe will no longer be Europe. — Aldous Huxley
The generation of consumers who swallow this pessimistic sentiment can't see past the product to its debased morality. Instead, their excitement about The Dark Knight's… — Armond White
Most people dread finding out when they come to die that they have never really lived. — Henry David Thoreau
Please choose the way of peace.. In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that… — Mother Teresa
Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no more harm in… — Marquis de Sade
Men are less hesitant about harming someone who makes himself loved than one who makes himself feared because love is held together by a chain… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Dread is a sympathetic antipathy and an antipathetic sympathy.... — Soren Kierkegaard
Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise,- His pride in… — Alexander Pope
The human heart cries out for help; the human soul implores us for deliverance; but we do not heed their cries, for we neither hear… — Khalil Gibran
When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children,… — Brian Aldiss
Compare the emotional vocabulary available to a leader (confidence, satisfaction, indignation) with the emotions not permitted (regret, embarrassment, dread, angst, mortification, anger, surprise, wonder, doubt),… — John MacLachlan Gray
The artist accepts the limitations of form, not with fear and dread, but as the starting point of creation. — Laurence Boldt
He is much to be dreaded who stands in dread of poverty. — Publilius Syrus

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