Dread Quote by Elizabeth Bowen

To me so deep a silence portends some dread event; a clamorous sorrow wastes itself in sound.

— Sophocles

Dread is a sympathetic antipathy and an antipathetic sympathy…

— Soren Kierkegaard

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth

— William Shakespeare

Must one dread what others dread?

— Laozi

Dread is a womanish debility in which freedom swoons. Psychologically speaking, the fall into sin always occurs in impotence. But dread is at the…

— Soren Kierkegaard

The long silences need to be loved, perhaps more than the words which arrive to describe them in time.

— Franz Wright

Love and Dread are brethren, and they are rooted in us by the Goodness of our Maker, and they shall never be taken from…

— Julian of Norwich

In love, we worry more about the meaning of silences than the meaning of words.

— Mason Cooley

It is the dread of something happening, something unknown and dreadful, that makes us do anything to keep the flicker of talk from dying…

— Logan Pearsall Smith

A loving silence often has more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.

— Rachel Naomi Remen

That was the first sound in the song of love! Scarce more than silence is, and yet a sound. Hands of invisible spirits touch…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Because we never stop silently loving those who we once loved out loud

— Marina Abramovic