Dread Quotes

466 quotes by 370 authors

Who knows when the end is reached? Death may be the beginning of life. How do I know that love of life is not a… — Zhuangzi
In your dread of dictators you established a state of society in which every ward boss is a dictator, every private employer a dictator, every… — George Bernard Shaw
The psychological condition of fear is divorced from any concrete and true immediate danger. It comes in many forms: unease, worry, anxiety, nervousness, tension, dread,… — Eckhart Tolle
No totalitarians, no wars, no fears, famines or perils of any kind can really break a man's spirit until he breaks it himself by surrendering.… — Edgar S. Brightman
I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself. — Dennis Potter
No cause more frequently produces bashfulness than too high an opinion of our own importance. He that imagines an assembly filled with his merit, panting… — Samuel Johnson
The last two - distractions and fears - are the dangerous ones. They're the habitual demons that invade the launch of any project. No one… — Twyla Tharp
It may be healthier to eat beer and franks with cheer and thanks, than to eat sprouts and bread with doubts and dread. — John Robbins
A nation of ants, morose, frigid, and still preserving the same dread of happiness and joy as in the days of John Knox. — Max O'Rell
Freud says, Man fears that his strength will be taken from him by woman, dreads becoming infected with her femininity and then proving himself a… — Camille Paglia
I have decided to keep a record of my inmost real-self thoughts. Perhaps it will help me to find out what I really am like:… — Rosamond Lehmann
If you are wise, you will dread a prosperity which only loads you with more. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor. Here brave men struggled and died for the right as God gave them… — Adlai Stevenson I
But there still prevails, even in nations well acquainted with commerce, a strong jealousy with regard to the balance of trade, and a fear, that… — David Hume
He had somehow, with all his modesty, the rare faculty of controlling his superiors as well as his subordinates. He outfaced Stanton, captivated the President,… — Joshua Chamberlain
Hence that dread and amazement with which as Scripture uniformly relates holy men were struck and overwhelmed whenever they beheld the presence of God. Men… — John Calvin
In a typical desperation for quick answers, easily understood, people had turned to primitive worship as the solution. With less than success. Not only had… — Richard Matheson
The burnt child dreads the fire. — Ben Jonson
We must eradicate root and branch any fear and dread in our soul concerning the future that is coming towards us... We must develop composure… — Rudolf Steiner
I have outlived that care that curries public favour or dreads the public frownâ€¦let the hand of law strike me down if it will, but… — Ned Kelly

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