Dread Quotes

466 quotes by 370 authors

In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. — Toni Morrison
When we are no longer motivated by fear, we understand that every moment is perfect in its own way. We no longer dread what we… — Alberto Villoldo
Anxiety is not fear, being afraid of this or that definite object, but the uncanny feeling of being afraid of nothing at all. It is… — William Barrett
A thunder-storm!â€”the eloquence of heaven, When every cloud is from its slumber riven, Who hath not paused beneath its hollow groan, And felt Omnipotence around… — Robert Montgomery
Sorrow itself is not so hard to bear As the thought of sorrow coming. Airy ghosts, That work no harm, do terrify us more Than… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Borders are scratched across the hearts of men By strangers with a calm, judicial pen, And when the borders bleed we watch with dread The… — Marya Mannes
Very early in my life I took the question of the relation of art to truth seriously: even now I stand in holy dread in… — Friedrich Nietzsche
To crush, to annihilate a man utterly, to inflict on him the most terrible of punishments so that the most ferocious murderer would shudder at… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
There are certain people who so ardently and passionately desire a thing, that from dread of losing it they leave nothing undone to make them… — Jean de la Bruyere
The same common sense which makes an author write good things, makes him dread they are not good enough to deserve reading. — Jean de la Bruyere
There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds. — James Russell Lowell
The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change; Then let it come: I have no dread of what Is called for by the instinct of… — James Russell Lowell
In the storm, like a prophet oâ€™ermaddened, Thou singest and tossest thy branches; Thy heart with the terror is gladdened, Thou forebodest the dread avalanches....… — James Russell Lowell
Neurotics think of the past with resentment, and the future with dread; the present just doesn't exist. — Mignon McLaughlin
It was a murky confusion â€” here and there blotted with a color like the color of the smoke from damp fuel â€” of flying… — Charles Dickens
The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection… — Samuel Johnson
A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain, but teaches us at every… — William Hazlitt
Persons of slender intellectual stamina dread competition, as dwarfs are afraid of being run over in the street. — William Hazlitt
It is the dread of something happening, something unknown and dreadful, that makes us do anything to keep the flicker of talk from dying out. — Logan Pearsall Smith
Among precautions against ambition, it may not be amiss to take precautions against our own. I must fairly say, I dread our own power and… — Edmund Burke

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