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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
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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 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
No true love there can be without Its dread penaltyjealousy. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
To dread no eye and to suspect no tongue is the great prerogative of innocencean exemption granted only to invariable virtue. — Samuel Johnson
The ignorant ever shun and dread the gifted and enlightened.
— Francis Alexander Durivage
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
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 livein constant fear
then we might miss
the beauty of the moment
right now, right here. — S. Tarr
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 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
Valentine's Day is the day all singletons like me dread
— Michelle McManus
