We Dread Quotes

18 quotes by 15 authors

Nature reaches out to us with welcoming arms, and bids us enjoy her beauty; but we dread her silence and rush into the crowded cities,… — Khalil Gibran
We dread life's termination as the close, not of enjoyment, but of hope. — William Hazlitt
If we ought not to fear mortal truth, still less should we dread scientific truth. In the first place it can not conflict with ethics?… — Henri Poincare
Why exactly are we so frightened of death that we avoid looking at it altogether? Somewhere, deep down, we know we cannot avoid facing death… — Sogyal Rinpoche
A careless way of sauntering across the earth and breaking open its treasures, a terrible dependency on sucking out the world's best juices for ourselves-these… — Barbara Kingsolver
They are, as it were, train-bearers in the pageant of life, and hold a glass up to humanity, frailer than itself. We see ourselves at… — William Hazlitt
When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children,… — Brian Aldiss
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
Why do we dread adversity when we know that facing it is the only way to become stronger, smarter, better? — John Wooden
There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds. — James Russell Lowell
Do we indeed desire the dead Should still be near us at our side ? Is there no baseness we would hide ? No inner… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Fate steals along with silent tread, Found oftenest in what least we dread; Frowns in the storm with angry brow, But in the sunshine strikes… — William Cowper
To ignore or use silence is a cruel tool. Hence this quote: Silence is all we dread; there's ransom in a voice; but silence is… — Emily Dickinson
As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation. — Hans Selye
The changes we dread most may contain our salvation. — Barbara Kingsolver
We dread the future only when we are not sure we can kill ourselves when we want to. — Emile M. Cioran
Our own front door can be a wonderful thing, or a sight we dread; rarely is it only a door. — Jeanette Winterson
We hope to grow old, and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and flee from death. — Jean De La Bruyere

Who Wrote These We Dread Quotes

15 authors contributed a total of 18 We Dread Quotes as follows: