Best 155 quotes in «dread quotes» category

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

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

Dreams surround our desires with ugliness and dread.

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

Cowardice, the dread of what will happen.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread.

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

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

Innocence has nothing to dread.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

... 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.

Must one dread what others dread?

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

people who refuse to take risks live with a feeling of dread that is far more severe than what they would feel if they took the risks necessary to make them less helpless - only they don't know it!

The burnt child dreads the fire.

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

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

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

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