Dread Quotes

466 quotes by 370 authors

In this age of inventive wonders all men have come to believe that in some genius' brain sleeps the solution of the grand problem of… — Mark Twain
Wonder has no opposite; it springs up already doubled in itself, compounded of dread and desire at once, attraction and recoil, producing a thrill, the… — Marina Warner
We hope to grow old and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and we flee from death. — Jean de la Bruyere
The daemonic-divine object may appear to the mind an object of horror and dread, but at the same time it is no less something that… — Rudolf Otto
A burnt child dreads the fire. — Aleister Crowley
I think writer's block is simply the dread that you are going to write something horrible. But as a writer, I believe that if you… — Roy Blount, Jr.
The essay form has superceded the novel as the vehicle that best suggests the prevailing apocalyptic gestalt, and as the talisman that is most able… — Adam Parfrey
During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the hope of immortality,… — Mika
If you trace up Masonry, through all its Orders, till you come to the grand tip-top head Mason of the World, you will discover that… — James Parton
If I know that I shall be as an angel, and more; if I shall behold all God has made; if he shall own me… — Matthew Simpson
Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen. — Epictetus
I swear by the mighty power of Amon-Ra, whose anger can shatter the world, and by the dread power of Set, that I will never… — Griffin Jay
In dread fear of sentimentality, another thing true is not said-that for its staff the paper is a source of pride and, I do believe,… — Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
Must one dread what others dread? — Laozi
When people do not dread authorities, then a greater dread descends. — Laozi
You don't have to think very hard to realize that our dread of both relationships and loneliness ... has to do with angst about death,… — David Foster Wallace
My fears are agitated to an extreme degree and the dread of death involves me in a stupor of chilling indisposition. — John Clare
Souls who can recognize God in the most trivial, the most grievous and the most mortifying things that happen to them in their lives, honor… — Jean-Pierre de Caussade
His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught. — Edmund Waller
The least difficult thing a foreign missionary has to learn is the language; the part of her work which she has the most reason to… — Isabella Thoburn

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