Best 155 quotes in «dread quotes» category

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.

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 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.

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

I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread.

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

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

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

Innocence has nothing to dread.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Must one dread what others dread?

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The ignorant ever shun and dread the gifted and enlightened.

The burnt child dreads the fire.

...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.

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

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.

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

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

There's nothing weirder than when your band finally gets big and you're playing sold-out arenas and you're selling millions of records, and you dread being a part of it all. It wasn't some master plan to go solo. I was just like, I would rather do my own thing, be happy, and have it be ten times less popular. That was really it. It just wasn't fun, the stress.

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

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.

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.]

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

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