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- Nature reaches out to us with welcoming arms, and bids us enjoy her beauty; but we dread her silence and rush into… — 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… — Henri Poincare
- Why exactly are we so frightened of death that we avoid looking at it altogether? Somewhere, deep down, we know we cannot… — 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… — 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… — William Hazlitt
- When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why… — 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… — 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… — William Cowper