Quotes about Dread

Dread of night. Dread of not-night. Votes: 6

As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation. Votes: 4

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. Votes: 4

I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time. Votes: 4

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it. Votes: 4

Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are. Votes: 4

Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh. Votes: 4

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before. Votes: 4

Dread, which is closely related to fear, steals the ability to enjoy ordinary life and makes people anxious about the future. It keeps them from looking forward to the next day, the next month, or the next decade. Votes: 4

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen. Votes: 4

Dread is a sympathetic antipathy and an antipathetic sympathy.... Votes: 3

Dread more the blunderer's friendship than the calumniator's enmity. Votes: 3

Jah would never give the power to a baldhead; run come crucify the Dread. Votes: 3

Dread of disaster makes everybody act in the very way that increases the disaster. Votes: 3

Nor dread nor hope attendA dying animal;A man awaits his endDreading and hoping all. Votes: 3

Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life. Votes: 3

Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune. Votes: 3

Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune. Votes: 3

Dread not events unknown, and be not downhearted, for the fountain of the water of life is involved in obscurity. Votes: 3

Dread is a womanish debility in which freedom swoons. Psychologically speaking, the fall into sin always occurs in impotence. But dread is at the same time the most egotistic thing. Votes: 3

Dread of disaster makes everybody act in the very way that increases the disaster. Psychologically the situation is analogous to that of people trampled to death when there is a panic in a theatre caused by a cry of `Fire!'. Votes: 3

Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no more harm in destroying this kind of matter than in evacuating another, by medicines, when we feel the need. Votes: 3

Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals. Votes: 2

The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married. Votes: 2

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married. Votes: 2

Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown. Votes: 2

Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show. Votes: 2

I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself. Votes: 2

Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all. Votes: 2

The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good. Votes: 2

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man. Votes: 2

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me. Votes: 2

He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius. Votes: 2

Anyone who's a parent dreads that call in the middle of the night. I have four grown children and I still dread it. Votes: 2

I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol. Votes: 2

A State infinitely worse than that which the most inflamed Zealot, the most violent Republican or Enthusiast even pretended to dread before the Rebellion commenced. Votes: 2

Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread. Votes: 2

Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fiber. Votes: 2

We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived. Votes: 2

My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom. Votes: 2

When we love, we are courageous; and courage has nothing to do with being fearless, it's about being willing to experience fear, even dread, to do what we must, without guarantee of outcome. Votes: 2

Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be. Votes: 2

I have covered wars, before the epidemic began and since. They are all ugly and painful and unjust, but for me, nothing has matched the dread I felt while walking through the Castro, the Village, or Dupont Circle at the height of the AIDS epidemic. Votes: 2

The essential truth is that sometimes you're worried that they'll find out it's a fluke, that you don't really have it. You've lost the muse or - the worst dread - you never had it at all. I went through all that madness early on. Votes: 2

Dickinson is my hero because she was a joker, because she would never explain, because as a poet she confronted pain, dread and death, and because she was capable of speaking of those matters with both levity and seriousness. She's my hero because she was a metaphysical adventurer. Votes: 2

I know a lot of people dread going to work every morning, but my work is playing pretend and doing stunts and screaming. It's a lot of fun and I get to play dress up. Every day is exciting and different and new and cool. I couldn't be more grateful. Votes: 2

I dread handshakes. I've got some problems with my hands, and everywhere I go, people want to impress me with their grip. To make it worse, now women are coming up with that firm shake. So I'll say, 'Gimme five!' If a boy wants a handshake, I'll just give him a hug. Votes: 2

During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the hope of immortality, I am as weary of that as I am of gods and kings. For my own sake only I write this; and herein I differ from all other writers, past and to come. Votes: 2

During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the hope of immortality, I am as weary of that as I am of gods and kings. For my own sake only I write this; and herein I differ from all other writers, past and to come. Votes: 2

When you do a play, you have the kind of nightly feeling of accomplishment. But you also have the daily dread of the doing it every night. And because you're doing the whole thing every day, it's like climbing up the mountain every single night. With a movie it's like climbing the mountain very slowly, over months of filming. Votes: 2

When fear makes your choices for you, no security measures on earth will keep the things you dread from finding you. But if you can avoid avoidance - if you can choose to embrace experiences out of passion, enthusiasm, and a readiness to feel whatever arises - then nothing, nothing in all this dangerous world, can keep you from being safe. Votes: 2

I liked school, but I used to dread those moments when the teacher would call me up to give an oral report. I forced myself to deal with it and not dwell on the class in front of me - to keep a straight face, give the report and concentrate on getting it right. That's normally how I perform. That's how I am. Votes: 2

Bananas are great, as I believe them to be the only known cure for existential dread. Also, Mother Teresa said that in India, a woman dying in the street will share her banana with anyone who needs it, whereas in America, people amass and hoard as many bananas as they can to sell for an exorbitant profit. So half of them go bad, anyway. Votes: 2

Innocence has nothing to dread. Votes: 0

Travelling fills me with dread. Votes: 0

Must one dread what others dread? Votes: 0

We hope vaguely but dread precisely. Votes: 0

All dread those things they don't understand ... Votes: 0

Cowardice, the dread of what will happen. Votes: 0

Fear is secured by a dread of punishment. Votes: 0

There is no delight the equal of dread Votes: 0

Dreams surround our desires with ugliness and dread. Votes: 0

Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it Votes: 0

I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread. Votes: 0

The advance of science spares us from irrational dread. Votes: 0

Rich people read their bills. Poor people dread theirs. Votes: 0

The changes we dread most may contain our salvation. Votes: 0

Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it. Votes: 0

The dread of futility has been my life-long plague. Votes: 0

I have become that mother I used to dread. Votes: 0

Anything is a temptation to those who dread it. Votes: 0

The dread of criticism is the death of genius. Votes: 0

Heed the spark or you may dread the fire ... Votes: 0

Alcoholism is a dread, an awful, and fatal disease. Votes: 0

You dread that there will be real problems during filming. Votes: 0

No true love there can be without Its dread penalty--jealousy. Votes: 0

no hour arrives so soon as the one we dread. Votes: 0

I dread our own mistakes more than the enemy's intentions. Votes: 0

The ignorant ever shun and dread the gifted and enlightened. Votes: 0

Valentine's Day is the day all singletons like me dread Votes: 0

The blessings of the devil is the beginning of dread. Votes: 0

I know little of women. But I've heard dread tales. Votes: 0

Humans without humanity, A world of dread and fear for eternity. Votes: 0

In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. Votes: 0

When people do not dread authorities, then a greater dread descends. Votes: 0

Sometimes I dread loneliness more than bores. Other times, the reverse. Votes: 0

The Bibbidi Bobbidi Beautiful boutique, the name filled me with dread. Votes: 0

Do that which you dread and cherish those victories with pride. Votes: 0

A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. Votes: 0

He is much to be dreaded who stands in dread of poverty. Votes: 0

I mean that I value vision, and dread being struck stone blind. Votes: 0

I have always had a dread of becoming a passenger in life. Votes: 0

I have always had a dread of becoming a passenger in life. Votes: 0

The world dread nothing so much as being convinced of their errors. Votes: 0

The hope of all who suffer, The dread of all who wrong. Votes: 0

Present sufferings seem far greater to men than those they merely dread. Votes: 0

And death? I don't fear death. I dread the absence of it. Votes: 0

I dread karaoke. I hate karaoke. I can't sing - that is why. Votes: 0

A religious ought to dread more being afraid of poverty than experiencing it. Votes: 0

Preachers dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight. Votes: 0

We dread life's termination as the close, not of enjoyment, but of hope. Votes: 0

The Administration of the United States is such dread I almost feel paralyzed. Votes: 0

The greater our dread of crosses, the more necessary they are for us. Votes: 0

This was what happiness felt like - this wondrous, miraculous alternative to dread. Votes: 0

O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it? Votes: 0

I dread the idea of a paparazzi snapping me while I'm out running. Votes: 0

It's the end game that people dread and that's what I'm scared of Votes: 0

Athenodorus says hydrophobia, or water-dread, was first discovered in the time of Asclepiades. Votes: 0

...crushed between the fears of going forward and the dread of going back. Votes: 0

The highest and most lofty trees have the most reason to dread the thunder. Votes: 0

Hark! o'er the dread abyss the sea-bird screams-- The rocks resound--again the lightning gleams! Votes: 0

Why live life from dream to dream? And dread the day when dreaming ends. Votes: 0

I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results. Votes: 0

What turns a work crisis into a life crisis is the infusion of dread. Votes: 0

Upon his royal face there is no note how dread an army hath enrounded him. Votes: 0

I dread specialists in power because they are specialists speaking outside of their special subject. Votes: 0

Love of life is born of the awareness of death, of the dread of it. Votes: 0

In addition to the dread of Indians, Texas held out no inducements for Mexican emigrants. Votes: 0

The rhythm of fraught footsteps and fervent heartbeat orchestrated a symphony of anticipation and dread. Votes: 0

If you are wise, you will dread a prosperity which only loads you with more. Votes: 0

You know too well the forces which compose their army to dread their superior numbers. Votes: 0

Is not dread of thirst when your well is full, the thirst that is unquenchable? Votes: 0

War doesn't mature men; it merely pickles them in the brine of disgust and dread. Votes: 0

one pities most those who loved, and still died. Only those who love, dread death. Votes: 0

There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings. Votes: 0

The grave, dread thing! Men shiver when thou'rt named: Nature appalled, Shakes off her wonted firmness. Votes: 0

Face each day with the expectation of achieving good, rather than the dread of falling short. Votes: 0

Most people dread finding out when they come to die that they have never really lived. Votes: 0

There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds. Votes: 0

I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism. Votes: 0

Waiting for the horror is almost more frightening than actually seeing it. Just the pending dread. Votes: 0

Neurotics think of the past with resentment, and the future with dread; the present just doesn't exist. Votes: 0

Smart people duck when they hear the dread announcement 'I'm going to be perfectly honest with you. Votes: 0

I'd rather have a bullet inside of me than to be living in constant dread of one. Votes: 0

A woman scorn'd is pitiless as fate, For then the dread of shame adds stings to hate. Votes: 0

When Obama dispenses with that dread sobriquet 'professorial,' he does it by being, well, more professorial. Votes: 0

The whole world is put in motion by the wish for riches and the dread of poverty. Votes: 0

Scandal is the sport of its authors, the dread of fools, and the contempt of the wise. Votes: 0

To me so deep a silence portends some dread event; a clamorous sorrow wastes itself in sound. Votes: 0

To stand against the deep dread-bolted thunder, In the most terrible and nimble stroke Of quick, cross lightning. Votes: 0

Persons of slender intellectual stamina dread competition, as dwarfs are afraid of being run over in the street. Votes: 0

Why do children dread mathematics? Because of the wrong approach. Because it is looked at as a subject. Votes: 0

And wonder, dread and warhave lingered in that landwhere loss and love in turnhave held the upper hand. Votes: 0

One may as well be optimistic. The road to catastrophe will be rougher if it's paved with dread. Votes: 0

Actors dread working with studios because they dictate what you do in a way that independent movies can't. Votes: 0

His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught. Votes: 0

...it is easy not to believe in monsters, considerably more difficult to escape their dread and loathsome clutches. Votes: 0

We dread the future only when we are not sure we can kill ourselves when we want to. Votes: 0

I Sing what was lost and dread what was won, / I walk in a battle fought over again... Votes: 0

I have a dread of sounding pretentious and try not to talk too much about what I do. Votes: 0

Even greater than my fear that l was crazy, was my lifelong dread that someone would find out. Votes: 0

If one regards life and death as natural processes, the metaphysical dread vanishes, and one obtains peace of mind. Votes: 0

The artist accepts the limitations of form, not with fear and dread, but as the starting point of creation. Votes: 0

That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay. Votes: 0

Poverty is one of them kind of misfortunes that we all of us dread but none of us pity. Votes: 0

These are the tears-The tears we shed-This is the fear-This is the dread-These are the contents of my head Votes: 0

It is the fool who is haunted by fears, dread of dangers, oppression of mind, not the wise man. Votes: 0

Adolescence is a twentieth-century invention most parents approach with dread and look back on with the relief of survivors. Votes: 0

The gardener had a dread of small women; he'd always imagined them to have an anger disproportionate to their size. Votes: 0

Nothing you are choosing to do for yourself is worth the tears and feelings of dread every single morning. NOTHING. Votes: 0

Le silence e ternel de ces espaces infinis m'effraie. The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread. Votes: 0

The devil's aversion to holy water is a light matter compared with a despots dread of a newspaper that laughs. Votes: 0

When your thoughts, words, and deeds form a seamless fabric, you streamline your efforts and thus eliminate worry and dread. Votes: 0

One of my favorite vampire movies is 'Nosferatu,' which has a palpable sense of dread that's a pre-war dread. Votes: 0

What wouldst thou do, old man? Think'st thou that duty shall have dread to speak When power to flattery bows? Votes: 0

Far more than dreading ending up in a care home myself, I dread having to put my husband in one. Votes: 0

Oh, you a E head, oh, you a weed head I got a big gun, bigger than Maxi Priest dread Votes: 0

The best I could say about third grade was that it was a more or less continuous state of dread. Votes: 0

It's funny, the moment you dread the most, seeing yourself bald, is actually not such a bad moment at all. Votes: 0

Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die… Votes: 0

The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology. Votes: 0

When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come. Votes: 0

Our own front door can be a wonderful thing, or a sight we dread; rarely is it only a door. Votes: 0

It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer. Votes: 0

Why do we dread adversity when we know that facing it is the only way to become stronger, smarter, better? Votes: 0

For many sportsmen, coming face to face with irrefutable evidence of their mortality is the moment they dread above all others. Votes: 0

You achieve strength, braveness and confidence by each experience in which you really halt to search dread during the deal with Votes: 0

I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it. Votes: 0

The people want wholesome dread. They want to fear something. They want someone to frighten them and make them shudderingly submissive. Votes: 0

How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them. Votes: 0

To dread no eye and to suspect no tongue is the great prerogative of innocence--an exemption granted only to invariable virtue. Votes: 0

He that shrinks from the grave with too great a dread, has an invisible fear behind him pushing him into it. Votes: 0

If! If! If! There were so many ifs in life, never any sense of security, always the dread of losing everything... Votes: 0

My fears are agitated to an extreme degree and the dread of death involves me in a stupor of chilling indisposition. Votes: 0

There are so few people that wake up every day and go do something that they dont dread... Im very lucky. Votes: 0

Me & the dread yo, give em some head blow Long as he know he keep me flier than a Red Bull Votes: 0

The same common sense which makes an author write good things, makes him dread they are not good enough to deserve reading. Votes: 0

Big occasions and races which have been eagerly anticipated almost to the point of dread, are where great deeds can be accomplished. Votes: 0

Suffering... is not just lots of pain but pain amplified by distinctly human emotions such as regret, self-pity, shame, humiliation, and dread. Votes: 0

Foul jealousy! that turnest love divine to joyless dread, and makest the loving heart with hateful thoughts to languish and to pine. Votes: 0

We hope to grow old and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and we flee from death. Votes: 0

Beauty is a thing of might and dread.Like the tempest she shakes the earth beneath us and the sky above us. Votes: 0

There’s no conscious thing on the face of the world that doesn’t know dread more intimately than its own heartbeat. Votes: 0

I was filled with dread at the thought my mind had skipped town and left me behind to pay the rent." --Dexter Votes: 0

Driving forward is the chief characteristic of western man since the Sumerians. His dread triad of vices is property-holding, voraciousness, and lust. Votes: 0

Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness. Votes: 0

No progressive knowledge will ever medicine that dread misgiving of a mysterious and pathless power given to words of a certain import. Votes: 0

In you, humanity is precarious; and so, in dread and in shame, you kill the animal in you. And its slaughter poisons you. Votes: 0

It may be healthier to eat beer and franks with cheer and thanks, than to eat sprouts and bread with doubts and dread. Votes: 0

I dread the inevitable acceleration of American world domination which will be the result of it all...Europe will no longer be Europe. Votes: 0

My dread is for my show to be a nostalgia act. So the key to it is how do we keep it fresh? Votes: 0

Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell. Votes: 0

Time is my enemy. Time will catch up with me vocally. And I dread that. I dread to think about life without singing. Votes: 0

Simplicity of manner is the last attainment. Men are very long afraid of being natural, from the dread of being taken for ordinary. Votes: 0

He that has his trust set upon God does not need to dread anything except the weakening or the paralyzing of that trust. Votes: 0

When thou attended gloriously from heaven , Shalt in the sky appear, and from thee send Thy summoning archangels to proclaim Thy dread tribunal. Votes: 0

Writing has often been accompanied by terror, silences, and then wild bursts of private laughter that suddenly make all the dread seem worthwhile. Votes: 0

A nation of ants, morose, frigid, and still preserving the same dread of happiness and joy as in the days of John Knox. Votes: 0

Our knowledge is a torch of smoky pine That lights the pathway but one step ahead Across a void of mystery and dread. Votes: 0

Death happens but once, yet we feel it every moment of our lives; it is worse to dread it than to suffer it. Votes: 0

If I am killed, I can die by once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again. Votes: 0

Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head Votes: 0

You know I'm old in some ways-in others-well, I'm just a little girl. I like sunshine and pretty things and cheerfulness-and I dread responsibility. Votes: 0

God deliver me from the dread asbestos of "other things." Saturate me with the oil of the Spirit that I may be aflame. Votes: 0

Truly the souls of men are full of dread: Ye cannot reason almost with a man That looks not heavily and full of fear. Votes: 0

Maybe this is pathetic, but I still dread producing a book that doesn't earn back its advance. I hate obligations that are financially foggy. Votes: 0

Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen. Votes: 0

I find I have to touch what I am working on every day, or a deep-seated dread kicks in that is very hard to overcome. Votes: 0

Every form of causeless self-doubt, every feeling of inferiority and secret unworthiness is, in fact, man's hidden dread of his inability to deal with existence. Votes: 0

It is the dread of something happening, something unknown and dreadful, that makes us do anything to keep the flicker of talk from dying out. Votes: 0

The desire to be the object of public attention is weak, but the excessive dread of it is but a form of vanity and over-self-contemplativeness. Votes: 0

It is much better to die of hunger unhindered by grief and fear than to live affluently beset with worry, dread, suspicion and unchecked desire. Votes: 0

He who knows what it is to enjoy God will dread His loss; he who has seen His face will fear to see His back. Votes: 0

When I want to find the vanguard of the people I look to the uneasy dreams of an aristocracy and find what they dread most. Votes: 0

And if sun comes / How shall we greet him? / Shall we not dread him, / Shall we not fear him / After so lengthy a / Session with shade? Votes: 0

If I ever married, I know I would dread the daily sound of the key in the door and the casual expectancy of 'Hello! I'm home! Votes: 0

America is the world's policeman, all right -- a big, dumb, mick flatfoot in the middle of the one thing cops dread most, a "domestic disturbance. Votes: 0

Ah! What would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before. Votes: 0

I was thinking about New York and realized how much I hate walking around in the winter and how much I dread getting on the train. Votes: 0

For the first time in my life I tasted death, and death tasted bitter, for death is birth, is fear and dread of some terrible renewal. Votes: 0

My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Votes: 0

Deep within every man there lies the dread of being alone in the world, forgotten by God, overlooked among the tremendous household of millions and millions. Votes: 0

What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal. Votes: 0

We dread old age, which are not sure of being able to attain. [Fr., L'on craint la vieillesse, que l'on n'est pas sur de pouvoir atteindre.] Votes: 0

We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die. Votes: 0

O majesty unspeakable and dread!Wert thou less mighty than Thou art,Thou wert, O Lord, too great for our belief,Too little for our heart. Votes: 0

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 infinity. Votes: 0

You can be living in a big house, driving a nice car, going on exotic vacations and still be empty inside, crippled with fear and dread. Votes: 0

I really dread serious people. Especially serious, dogmatic people. I regard them as sort of what Reich called the emotional plague. I regard them as very dangerous. Votes: 0

If I ever married, I know I would dread the daily sound of the key in the door and the casual expectancy of 'Hello! I'm home!' Votes: 0

It isn't the experience of today that drives men mad. It is the remorse for something that happened yesterday, and the dread of what tomorrow may disclose. Votes: 0

Men, not children or servants, tempered and taught to the end; Cleansed of servile panic, slow to dread or despise, Humble because of knowledge, mighty by sacrifice. Votes: 0

No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man. Life and death to him are haunted grounds, filled with goblin forms of vague and shadowy dread. Votes: 0

Yes, impossible. But do not dread, impossibility is just another measure of difficulty. The skills of dwargens and flillows sometimes match the impossible..." - Dwenzuak the dwargen Votes: 0

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 the blow. Votes: 0

There are certain people who so ardently and passionately desire a thing, that from dread of losing it they leave nothing undone to make them lose it. Votes: 0

Eight grown Americans out of ten dread the coming of the Fourth, with its pandemonium and its perils, and they rejoice when it is gone-if still alive. Votes: 0

Conservatives cherished it for being small and inconvenient, and thus keeping out the new people whom New York was beginning to dread and yet be drawn to Votes: 0

I must do something to keep my thoughts fresh and growing. I dread nothing so much as falling into a rut and feeling myself becoming a fossil. Votes: 0

The redhead looked back and forth between them with dread in her eyes"Oh, dear, scheming. I was afraid this would happen if we got chummy again. Votes: 0

I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print. Votes: 0

[A ruler is merely] the trustee of the rights of other men and he must always stand in dread of having in some way violated these rights. Votes: 0

It won't do you any good to run if you're running the wrong way. I've developed a new philosophy...I only dread one day at a time. Votes: 0

Suddenly Ka realized he was in love with Ä°pek. And realizing that this love would determine the rest of his life, he was filled with dread. Votes: 0

The day the process of acting becomes something that I dread is the end. Obviously, why would you do something that you hate? I won't do that. Votes: 0

If there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am I doing. Votes: 0

Commercial concerns have expanded from family business to corporate wealth which is self-perpetuating and which enlightened statesmen and economists now dread as the most potent oligarchy yet produced. Votes: 0

When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future. Votes: 0

Why is life speeded up so? Why are things so terribly, unbearably precious that you can't enjoy them but can only wait breathless in dread of their going? Votes: 0

The great tragedy of Alzheimer's disease, and the reason why we dread it, is that it leaves us with no defence, not even against those who love us. Votes: 0

We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul. Votes: 0

There is a possibility that your ability as a player may well be analysed by future generations on your one day statistics. That's the day I dread most. Votes: 0

With what dread and apprehension we entrust important jobs into the hands of others. Imagine the love of a needless God who is willing to want our work. Votes: 0

He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when he has come back from battle and the dread fray. Votes: 0

...the power-loving temperament is more dangerous when it either prefers or is forced to operate in what is materially a void. Wehave everything to dread from the dispossessed. Votes: 0

Her chief dread in life, at this period of her development, was that she would appear narrow minded; what she feared next afterwards was that she should be so. Votes: 0

As the Kindle's dread grip on digital publishing is challenged by tablet computers and Android smartphones, with their bright screens and high resolution, the need for illustration is growing. Votes: 0

Who doubting tyranny, and fainting under Fortune's false lottery, desperately run To death, for dread of death; that soul's most stout, That, bearing all mischance, dares last it out. Votes: 0

The least difficult thing a foreign missionary has to learn is the language; the part of her work which she has the most reason to dread is its responsibility. Votes: 0

World of words lost on the living / I take my place with the walking dead / Robbed of my voice I'm always giving / Thousands of words to this nameless dread. Votes: 0

The terrorist threat is so cloudy, faceless, and vague, so manipulable by political purposes, so definitely present but indefinitely manifested, that it sometimes feels interchangeable with everyday dread itself. Votes: 0

I dread the day I leave [Doctor Who], because then I'll have to go back to writing bedrooms and offices and pubs. And maybe a field, if I'm lucky. Votes: 0

Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor. Here brave men struggled and died for the right as God gave them to see the right. Votes: 0

I had my nearest and most intimate glimpses of the presence of my Lord in those dread moments when musket, club or spear was being levelled at my life. Votes: 0

As for myself, there are two things I dread, - death and marriage. I must die, but I need not marry. I have sworn I will never be taken alive. Votes: 0

I do believe very much in movie as a one-man-show. I think that where I've watched movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it. Votes: 0

When the imagination is continually led to the brink of vice by a system of terror and denunciations, people fling themselves over the precipice from the mere dread of falling. Votes: 0

I am not myself apt to be alarmed at innovations recommended by reason. That dread belongs to those whose interests or prejudices shrink from the advance of truth and science. Votes: 0

Careful observers may foretell the hour (By sure prognostics) when to dread a show'r. While rain depends, the pensive cat gives o'er Her frolics, and pursues her tail no more. Votes: 0

My childhood was full of deep sorrows - colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a Deity in the sky who was angry when I ate too much plumcake. Votes: 0

The image of Eternity--the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone. Votes: 0

If anyone could look into my head See or feel the dread that has captured Me or see within this sad, unhappy brain They would only turn away Turn away. Votes: 0

No hell will frighten men away from sin; no dread of prospective misery; only goodness can cast hell out of any man, and set up the kingdom of heaven within. Votes: 0

Doth sickness fill my heart with fear, 'Tis sweet to know that Thou art near; Am I with dread of justice tried, 'Tis sweet to know that Christ hath died. Votes: 0

No further seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode (There they alike in trembling hope repose), The bosom of his Father and his God. Votes: 0

There is nothing more dread and more shameless than a woman who plans such deeds in her heart as the foul deed which she plotted when she contrived her husband's murder. Votes: 0

I should dread to disfigure the beautiful ideal of the memories of illustrious persons with incongruous features, and to sully the imaginative purity of classical works with gross and trivial recollections. Votes: 0

I shall not dwell in the past...I shall not dread the present...I shall not fear the Future...For as Long as I live...I shall only think of success. Votes: 0

It's beginnings that are hard. I always begin with a great sense of dread and trepidation. Nietzsche says that the decision to start writing is like leaping into a cold lake. Votes: 0

On Halloween, kids get to assume, for one night the outward forms of their innermost dread, and they're also allowed to take candy from strangers - the scariest thing of all. Votes: 0

Wonder has no opposite; it springs up already doubled in itself, compounded of dread and desire at once, attraction and recoil, producing a thrill, the shudder of pleasure and of fear. Votes: 0

I dread the promotion part of my job. It's agony, especially compared to the private, at-home joy of writing. But being a grown-up means doing every part of the larger task. Votes: 0

[All religious sects] dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight; and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversion of the duperies in which they live. Votes: 0

In dread fear of sentimentality, another thing true is not said-that for its staff the paper is a source of pride and, I do believe, an object of affection and-yes, love. Votes: 0

Come, hearken then, ere voice of dread, with bitter tiding laden, shall summon to unwelcome bed a melancholy maiden! We are but older children, dear, who fret to find our bedtime near. Votes: 0

...what I dread more than anything else in this life is noise...silence helps you to go inward..anyone who is interested in something more than just life outside actually needs silence. Votes: 0

The essay form has superceded the novel as the vehicle that best suggests the prevailing apocalyptic gestalt, and as the talisman that is most able to repel the onset of paralysing dread. Votes: 0

Fear not the phantom of death, My Countrymen, for his greatnessAnd mercy will refuse to approachYour smallness; and dread not the Dagger, for it will decline to beLodged in your shallow hearts. Votes: 0

I was now at a university in New York, a professor of existential psychology with the not inconsiderable thesis that magic, dread, and the perception of death were the roots of motivation. Votes: 0

Men will flee to caves in the rocks and to holes in the ground from dread of the LORD and the splendor of his majesty, when he rises to shake the earth. Votes: 0

The deeds we do, the words we say,Into still air they seem to fleet;We count them ever past;But they shall last -In the dread judgment theyAnd we shall meet. Votes: 0

There is little peace or comfort in life if we are always anxious as to future events. He that worries himself with the dread of possible contingencies will never be at rest. Votes: 0

As there is no pleasure in military life for a soldier who fears death, so there is no independence in civil existence for the man who has an overpowering dread of solitude. Votes: 0

The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection of fallacies which do us no harm. Votes: 0

Even before 9/11 I was gripped by a sense of dread: our lack of criticism about what we were doing in the Middle East - the slagging off of a whole religious tradition. Votes: 0

As they stood there, the world falling apart around them, Grigor had a feeling of dread settle over his heart; but despite that, he was glad that he was with Olivia once again. Votes: 0

OBSOLETE, adj. No longer used by the timid. Said chiefly of words. A word which some lexicographer has marked obsolete is ever thereafter an object of dread and loathing to the fool writer . . . Votes: 0

There is a certain freedom in giving up all hope. One is no longer bound by the cords of dread or fear; you simply move toward the inevitable without thinking on the consequences. Votes: 0

To get up in the morning, wash and then wait for some unforeseen variety of dread or depression. I would give the whole universe and all of Shakespeare for a grain of ataraxy. Votes: 0

Borders are scratched across the hearts of men By strangers with a calm, judicial pen, And when the borders bleed we watch with dread The lines of ink across the map turn red. Votes: 0

Something did happen to me somewhere that robbed me of confidence and courage and left me with a fear of discovery and change and a positive dread of everything unknown that may occur. Votes: 0

And now it appeared that there was a mysterious Queen clothed by rumour with dread and wonderful attributes, and commonly known by the impersonal but, to my mind, rather awesome title of She." Votes: 0

I mean, the idea of losing a parent is really inconceivable. I think there's just an undertone of dread about the subject, so people don't talk about it and don't prepare for it. Votes: 0

I swear by the mighty power of Amon-Ra, whose anger can shatter the world, and by the dread power of Set, that I will never betray my trust as High Priest of Karnak. Votes: 0

Underground. Which I hate. Like mines and tunnels and 13. Underground, where I dread dying, which is stupid because even if I die aboveground, the next thing they'll do is bury me underground anyway. Votes: 0

I just think that for a lot of people - not to take the focus off of myself - that feeling of imminent dread, like a cloak of black dust, was always around me. Votes: 0

It's the beginning of your day. You awake and look around you, feeling perhaps a joyful expectation, or perhaps an awful dread. No matter which, remember this: God loves you with an infinite love. Votes: 0

The only time early bloomer has ever been applied to me is vis-a-vis my premature apprehension of the deep dread-of-existence thing. In all other cases, I plod and tromp along. My knuckles? Well dragged. Votes: 0

The only time "early bloomer" has ever been applied to me is vis-a-vis my premature apprehension of the deep dread-of-existence thing. In all other cases, I plod and tromp along. My knuckles? Well dragged. Votes: 0

The first law of history is to dread uttering a falsehood; the next is not to fear stating the truth; lastly, the historian's writings should be open to no suspicion of partiality or animosity. Votes: 0

It's hard for me, a Jew, to stay in the moment. Without the past, where is the guilt? And without the future, where is the dread? And without guilt and dread, who am I? Votes: 0

It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reading is, and what shifts we make to escape thinking. There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds. Votes: 0

Think not I dread to see my spirit fly, Through the dark gates of fell mortality; Death has no terrors when the life is true; 'Tis living ill that makes us fear to die. Votes: 0

There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits. (Preface to the French edition). Votes: 0

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, there to huddle like sheep fleeing from a ferocious wolf. Votes: 0

Among precautions against ambition, it may not be amiss to take precautions against our own. I must fairly say, I dread our own power and our own ambition: I dread our being too much dreaded. Votes: 0

Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized upon by a madness which forced them to commit the very acts which make it certain that what they dread will happen. Votes: 0

As Benjamin Franklin said, 'Those things that hurt, instruct.' It is for this reason that wise people learn not to dread but actually to welcome problems and actually to welcome the pain of problems. Votes: 0

There is a fear of the Lord which is the beginning of wisdom, which is founded in love. There is also a slavish fear, which is a mere dread of evil, and is purely selfish. Votes: 0

Many live in dread of what is coming. Why should we? The unknown puts adventure into life. ... The unexpected around the corner gives a sense of anticipation and surprise. Thank God for the unknown future. Votes: 0

You can't do anything in life. The social barriers in life are so intense and horrific that every encounter is just fraught with so many problems and dread. Every social situation is a potential nightmare. Votes: 0

I dread handshakes. I've got some problems with my hands, and everywhere I go, people want to impress me with their grip. To make it worse, now women are coming up with that firm shake. Votes: 0

Fear of self is the greatest of all terrors, the deepest of all dread, the commonest of all mistakes. From it grows failure. Because of it, life is a mockery. Out of it comes despair. Votes: 0

He only can create the greatest imaginable beauty who has endured all imaginable pangs, for only when we have seen and foreseen what we dread shall we be rewarded by that dazzling unforeseen wing-footed wanderer. Votes: 0

I believe that obstinacy, or the dread of control and discipline, arises not so much from self-willedness as from a conscious defect of voluntary power; as foolhardiness is not seldom the disguise of conscious timidity. Votes: 0