Best 155 quotes in «dread quotes» category

While I was able to rise and function almost normally during the earlier part of the day, I began to sense the onset of the symptoms at midafternoon or a little later- -gloom crowding in on me, a sense of dread and alienation and, above all, stifling anxiety.

Why was it that when you were looking forward to a specific day, it took forever to arrive, but when you were dreading a day, it was there immediately?

Yes I know sorrow. Know it far too well. My life is a tunnel choked by the sweepings of dread.

With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be. You always dread the unfamiliar. Surely you remember the boy in your own school class who was exceptionally ‘bright,’ did most of the reciting and answering while the others sat like so many leaden idols, hating him. And wasn’t it this bright boy you selected and tortured after hours? Of course it was. We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves again. So! A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon. Breach man's mind. Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man? Me?

You can't live in dread of something for long without beginning to crave it.

Anxiety is not fear, being afraid of this or that definite object, but the uncanny feeling of being afraid of nothing at all. It is precisely Nothingness that makes itself present and felt as the object of our dread.

A burnt child dreads the fire.

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

Anything is a temptation to those who dread it.

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

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

Dread more the blunderer's friendship than the calumniator's enmity.

Cowardice, the dread of what will happen.

Dreams surround our desires with ugliness and dread.

Fear is secured by a dread of punishment.

God is down in front. He is in the tomorrows. It is tomorrow that fills men with dread. God is there already. All the tomorrows of our life have to pass Him before they can get to us.

Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.

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

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

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

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

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread.

I kind of dread any kind of critical response, just because it's always painful in some way. Even if it's 80 percent good, it's the 20 percent that's bad that you remember - and that's a higher number than I usually get, 80 percent would be amazing.

Innocence has nothing to dread.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.

Must one dread what others dread?

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

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

... love dreads being isolated, being left to speak in a void -- at the beginning it would often rather listen than speak.

My bark, once struck by the fury of the storm, dreads again to approach the place of danger.

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

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

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

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.