Dreading Quotes

37 quotes by 34 authors

Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're… — Diane Arbus
My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter. — Tom Helm
Dreading that climax of all human ills the inflammation of his weekly bills. — Lord Byron
I am dreading the publication, for it will be impossible not to mind what is said. I have exposed my heart to be shot at. — J.R.R. Tolkien
A moment I've been dreading. George brought his ne're-do-well son around this morning and asked me to find the kid a job. Not the political… — Ronald Reagan
I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. — Dorothea Dix
Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them! — Oliver Reed
Two forms of government are favorable to the prevalence of falsehood and deceit. Under a Despotism, men are false, treacherous, and deceitful through fear, like… — Albert Pike
A man who has once perceived, however temporarily and however briefly, what makes greatness of soul, can no longer be happy if he allows himself… — Bertrand Russell
Eating and food are a wonderful part of our life's experience, and half of us are walking around dreading having to figure out what to… — Gabrielle Reece
Alone, alone, about the dreadful wood / Of conscious evil runs a lost mankind, / Dreading to find its Father. — Wystan Hugh Auden
For art and joy go together, with bold openness, and high head, and ready hand - fearing naught and dreading no exposure. — James Whistler
How, then, find the courage for action? By slipping a little into unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct which holds one to the earth and dictates the relatively… — Henri Frederic Amiel
Parents accept their obsolescence with the best grace they can muster. . . they do all they can to make it easy for the younger… — Christopher Lasch
I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the… — Dorothy Dix
Making the 'An Idiot Abroad' series, I was really dreading going to India; I thought I'd hate it. It was a nightmare, and I was… — Karl Pilkington
I think it's your mental attitude. So many of us start dreading age in high school and that's a waste of a lovely life. 'Oh...… — Betty White
Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all. — William Butler Yeats
Every gathering has its moment. As an adult, I distract myself by trying to identify it, dreading the inevitable downswing that is sure to follow.… — David Sedaris
It is a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling

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