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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. — Gail Carriger

For many sportsmen, coming face to face with irrefutable evidence of their mortality is the moment they dread above all others. — Ian Botham

Far more than dreading ending up in a care home myself, I dread having to put my husband in one. — Laurie Graham

It is better to live before you fight, than to dread the possibility of death." -John Caleb — Joshua Mendrala

At this horror I sank nearly to the lichened earth, transfixed with a dread not of this nor any world, but only of the mad spaces between the stars. — H.P. Lovecraft

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. — Russell T. Davies

Many people say they do not fear death, but the process of dying. It's not the destination, but the trip that they dread. — Billy Graham

No progressive knowledge will ever medicine that dread misgiving of a mysterious and pathless power given to words of a certain import. — Thomas De Quincey

You keep only darkness, my distant female,
from your regard sometimes the coast of dread emerges. — Pablo Neruda

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. — P.D. James

The devil's aversion to holy water is a light matter compared with a despots dread of a newspaper that laughs. — Mark Twain

To me so deep a silence portends some dread event; a clamorous sorrow wastes itself in sound. — Sophocles

Smart people duck when they hear the dread announcement 'I'm going to be perfectly honest with you. — Judith Martin

The artist accepts the limitations of form, not with fear and dread, but as the starting point of creation. — Laurence Boldt

Dread more the blunderer's friendship than the calumniator's enmity. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

It was the dread that comes about when you are allowed to have something that seems costly and yet you're not asked for payment. — Helen Oyeyemi

Upon his royal face there is no note how dread an army hath enrounded him. — William Shakespeare

If you are wise, you will dread a prosperity which only loads you with more. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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. — Hermann Hesse

There is no delight the equal of dread — Clive Barker

A nation of ants, morose, frigid, and still preserving the same dread of happiness and joy as in the days of John Knox. — Max O'Rell

No true love there can be without Its dread penalty
jealousy. — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton

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. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Beauty is a thing of might and dread.
Like the tempest she shakes the earth beneath us and the sky above us. — Kahlil Gibran

I was young, and, despite dread, full of animal spirits; it was impossible for me to take a dark view too long. — Jeffrey Eugenides

The dread, I learned, builds slowly. It eats away at you a little bit over time until you start questioning everything you do and feel. — Jeanie Dyer

Dread not to climb the mountain, for the higher you rise, your load will lighten; for once on top, easy be the stroll to the meadow down below — Nancy B. Brewer

The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology. — James G. Frazer

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

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

Sometimes", said Miss Phillips, "the thing you dread doing the very thing you should do, just so you can stop thinking about it. — Marci Shimoff

The question of humanity can be solved only by constant dread. — Hassan Blasim

The dread had not left my soul. — Neil Gaiman

The dread of criticism is the death of genius. — William Gilmore Simms

Time is my enemy. Time will catch up with me vocally. And I dread that. I dread to think about life without singing. — Tom Jones

Every day lasts a year. I never enjoy anything. And every morning when I wake up I dread having to face the world again. — James Herriot

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. — John Howe

Persons of slender intellectual stamina dread competition, as dwarfs are afraid of being run over in the street. — William Hazlitt

She watched his face as earnestly as he watched the river. But, in the intensity of her look there was a touch of dread or horror. — Charles Dickens

A burnt child dreads the fire. — Aleister Crowley

A burnt dog dreads the fire. — Willa Cather

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

We have outsmarted ourselves, like greedy monkeys, and now we are full of dread. — Peter Matthiessen

Her laughter was an upbeat song set to a minor key. — Ken Scholes

One of my favorite vampire movies is 'Nosferatu,' which has a palpable sense of dread that's a pre-war dread. — Anton Yelchin

That's how it is, he told himself. If you dread something enough, even your worst fears coming true brings comfort. — Carsten Jensen

The Bibbidi Bobbidi Beautiful boutique, the name filled me with dread. — Jessica Fortunato

The antidote to joy is dread. — Sam Hamm

Why do children dread mathematics? Because of the wrong approach. Because it is looked at as a subject. — Shakuntala Devi

I want to immerse myself in American magic and dread. — Don DeLillo

You can receive your ideas with respect and curiosity, not with drama or dread. — Elizabeth Gilbert

We did not desire or dread the boys in themselves, we only desired and dreaded being wanted or not being wanted. — Zadie Smith

Yet nothing did he dread, but euer was ydrad. — Edmund Spenser

The element of dates I dread. To kiss or not to kiss, I hated that question. — Jamie McGuire

We hope to grow old and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and we flee from death. — Jean De La Bruyere

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

Cowardice, the dread of what will happen. — Epictetus

Two world wars in twenty-one years, and the universal dread of nuclear incineration. This time God has given us John Paul II, — Fulton J. Sheen

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

You know too well the forces which compose their army to dread their superior numbers. — James Wolfe

And death? I don't fear death. I dread the absence of it. — Robert Charles Wilson

Dread begins to inch in. No. Dread isn't one of those subtle emotions. It moves in and takes over, and then it drips and hands, like Spanish moss. — Deb Caletti

I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol. — Alexandre Dumas

I dread the inevitable acceleration of American world domination which will be the result of it all ... Europe will no longer be Europe. — Aldous Huxley

The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good. — John Locke

The rhythm of fraught footsteps and fervent heartbeat orchestrated a symphony of anticipation and dread. — Brian A. McBride

All this dread order break- for whom? for thee?
Vile worm!- oh madness! pride! impiety! — Alexander Pope

Innocence has nothing to dread. — Jean Racine

FORBIDDEN BRIDES OF THE FACELESS SLAVES IN THE SECRET HOUSE OF THE NIGHT OF DREAD DESIRE — Neil Gaiman

Oh, you a E head, oh, you a weed head
I got a big gun, bigger than Maxi Priest dread — Sean Price

A dread filled me, a dread unlike any I had ever felt. Not the terror of God, or his angels, but the sickly fear of man. — Aminatta Forna

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. — Helen Garner

To dread no eye and to suspect no tongue is the great prerogative of innocence
an exemption granted only to invariable virtue. — Samuel Johnson

The ignorant ever shun and dread the gifted and enlightened. — Francis Alexander Durivage

And in the months since the destruction of the Empire's dread battle station, we have already liberated countless planets in the name of the Alliance. — Chuck Wendig

Must one dread what others dread? — Laozi

When people do not dread authorities, then a greater dread descends. — Laozi

We hope vaguely but dread precisely. — Paul Valery

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. — P. J. O'Rourke

Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell. — Beatrice Webb

Piper should've been losing her mind. Instead, all she felt was dread. — Rick Riordan

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. — Shailene Woodley

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. — F Scott Fitzgerald

If we always live
in constant fear
then we might miss
the beauty of the moment
right now, right here. — S. Tarr

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

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. — Jean De La Bruyere

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

Life has a cruel way of making us confront the things we dread. — Pragat Kasana

I was overtaken by a dread of utter solitude in the great turning world. — Peter Matthiessen

Do that which you dread and cherish those victories with pride. — Og Mandino

Do you dread sin? He has nailed it to His cross! — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The shadows have both been my refuge and my repulse. — Anthony Liccione

Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are. — Toni Morrison

Humans without humanity, A world of dread and fear for eternity. — Mouloud Benzadi

There is more than one way to lose your life; quickly through violence, or fettered-away and wasted around dreadful, toxic people. — Bryant McGill

I dread specialists in power because they are specialists speaking outside of their special subject. — C.S. Lewis

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

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

And yet sometimes we become the person we most dread. Or maybe we dread most the person we know we are to become. — Reif Larsen

I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself. — Dennis Potter