Dread Quote by Paul Valery Download Open image “We hope vaguely but dread precisely.” — Paul Valery ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dread Fear Hope
Dread, which is closely related to fear, steals the ability to enjoy ordinary life and makes people anxious about the future. It keeps them… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
Dread not events unknown, and be not downhearted, for the fountain of the water of life is involved in obscurity. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
And wonder, dread and war have lingered in that land where loss and love in turn have held the upper hand. — Simon Armitage Copy Share Image
Dread is a sympathetic antipathy and an antipathetic sympathy.... — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
... love dreads being isolated, being left to speak in a void -- at the beginning it would often rather listen than speak. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The people want wholesome dread. They want to fear something. They want someone to frighten them and make them shudderingly submissive. — Ernst Rohm Copy Share Image
In the eyes of those lovers of perfection, a work is never finished a word that for them has no sense but abandoned; and… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
“O Socrates, the universe cannot for one instant endure to be only what it is. It is strange to think that that which is… — Paul Valéry Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the soul, when alone with itself and speaking to itself, uses only a small number of words, none of… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
“I am now going to make an admission. I confess, I agree, that all these good people who protested, who laughed, who did not… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
“Degas is one of the very few painters who have given the floor its true importance.” — Paul Valéry Copy Share Image
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
The most ridiculous were those who, on their own authority, made themselves the judges and justices of the tribe. They seemed never to suspect… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Thought must be hidden in the verse like nutritional virtue in a fruit. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
“The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Smart people duck when they hear the dread announcement 'I'm going to be perfectly honest with you. — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
Oh, I'm being eaten By a boa constrictor, A boa constrictor, A boa constrictor, I'm being eaten by a boa constrictor, And I don't… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
I think writer's block is simply the dread that you are going to write something horrible. But as a writer, I believe that if… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
I think most amateurs dread playing a 180-plus-yard par 3 even more than a hard par 4. Part of it is psychological: You think… — Ernie Els Copy Share Image
The psychological condition of fear is divorced from any concrete and true immediate danger. It comes in many forms: unease, worry, anxiety, nervousness, tension,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
There is a certain freedom in giving up all hope. One is no longer bound by the cords of dread or fear; you simply… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
Why exactly are we so frightened of death that we avoid looking at it altogether? Somewhere, deep down, we know we cannot avoid facing… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Many live in dread of what is coming. Why should we? The unknown puts adventure into life. ... The unexpected around the corner gives… — E. Stanley Jones Copy Share Image
