Dread Quotes

466 quotes by 370 authors

A poet articulating the dreads and horrors of our time is necessary in order to make readers understand what is happening, really understand it, not… — Denise Levertov
God deliver me from the dread asbestos of â€œother things.â€ Saturate me with the oil of the Spirit that I may be aflame. — Jim Elliot
You allow a horse to make mistakes, the horse will learn from mistakes no different than the human. But you can't get him to where… — Buck Brannaman
Why do children dread mathematics? Because of the wrong approach. Because it is looked at as a subject. — Shakuntala Devi
Like a cross between Paul Auster'sÂ The Book of IllusionsÂ and Janice Lee'sÂ Damnation,Â The Absolution of Roberto Acestes LaingÂ is at once smart and slyly unsettling. It is expert… — Brian Evenson
OBSOLETE, adj. No longer used by the timid. Said chiefly of words. A word which some lexicographer has marked obsolete is ever thereafter an object… — Ambrose Bierce
The three most effective incentives to human action may be ... classified as creed, greed and dread. ... In examining the scientist it is perhaps… — Robert Watson-Watt
I dread our own power and our own ambition; I dread our being too much dreaded....We may say that we shall not abuse this astonishing… — Edmund Burke
I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now… — Nancy Astor
The hope of all who suffer, The dread of all who wrong. — John Greenleaf Whittier
No further seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode (There they alike in trembling hope repose), The bosom of… — Thomas Gray
Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows,… — Hippocrates
After going to war against the U.N.'s expressed wishes, the U.S. is now admitting it needs the U.N.'s help. It's the geopolitical equivalent of the… — Jon Stewart
I must perish in this deplorable folly. Thus, thus, and not otherwise, shall I be lost. I dread the events of the future, not in… — Edgar Allan Poe
Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present. Most of us spend fifty-nine minutes an hour living in… — Storm Jameson
When we love, we are courageous; and courage has nothing to do with being fearless, it's about being willing to experience fear, even dread, to… — Vanna Bonta
The skin of the coward changes color all the time, he can't get a grip on himself, he can't sit still, he squats and rocks,… — Homer
After she's gone, another brief lull sets in. This one is probably the last. But what good is a lull? It's only a breathing spell… — Cornell Woolrich
The image of the presence, whatever it was, waiting there for him to go -this image had not yet been so concrete for his nerves… — Henry James
One day the enemy will cross the Great Green. They will bring war and tragedy to these eastern lands. Such is the nature of vile… — David Gemmell

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