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Dread Quotes by Jean de la Bruyere
- We hope to grow old and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and we flee from death.
- 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…
- The same common sense which makes an author write good things, makes him dread they are not good enough to deserve reading.
- Death happens but once, yet we feel it every moment of our lives; it is worse to dread it than to suffer it.
- Anything is a temptation to those who dread it.
- We hope to grow old, and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and flee from death.
More Dread Quotes
- Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it. — Marcus Aurelius
- Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure,… — Dirk Benedict
- It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man. — Georges Bernanos
- I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it. — John le Carre
- Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown. — Emile M. Cioran
- Home is the one place in all this world where hearts are sure of each other. It is the place of confidence.… — Frederick William Robertson
- Whether or not we have personality disturbances, whether or not we have the ability to overcome deficiencies of early environment, is like… — John Hospers
- I have always had a dread of becoming a passenger in life. — Margrethe II of Denmark
- Upon his royal face there is no note how dread an army hath enrounded him. — William Shakespeare
- When I hear bad news I look at it as another leadership test that will determine how successful Go Daddy will become.… — Bob Parsons
- Nature reaches out to us with welcoming arms, and bids us enjoy her beauty; but we dread her silence and rush into… — Khalil Gibran
- Face each day with the expectation of achieving good, rather than the dread of falling short. — Shannon Miller