The Dread Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about The Dread

The Dread Quotes & Sayings

Happy to read and share the best inspirational The Dread quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.

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

Heed the spark or you may dread the fire ... — Miles Franklin

The grave, dread thing! Men shiver when thou'rt named: Nature appalled, Shakes off her wonted firmness. — Robert Blair

Big occasions and races which have been eagerly anticipated almost to the point of dread, are where great deeds can be accomplished. — Jack Lovelock

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

If there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am I doing. — Samuel Beckett

Weave a circle round him thrice,
And close your eyes with holy dread,
For he on honey-dew hath fed,
And drank the milk of Paradise. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Nothing you are choosing to do for yourself is worth the tears and feelings of dread every single morning. NOTHING. — Mary Mihalic

Why do we dread adversity when we know that facing it is the only way to become stronger, smarter, better? — John Wooden

Our knowledge is a torch of smoky pine
That lights the pathway but one step ahead
Across a void of mystery and dread. — George Santayana

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

I did not dread the dark winter as people do when they have lost their youth and live alone in some great city. — Siegfried Sassoon

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

Consequences need not be the obstacles that I dread, but the direction that I need. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

She'd grown up believing in hell in an abstract nightmare way; but west Texas had given her something more concrete upon which to dread the afterlife. — Cherie Priest

When you dread getting up in the morning to go somewhere, you are going to the wrong place. — Karen Larson-Reuter

There is no delight the equal of dread — Clive Barker

Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune. — Owen Glendower

Hark! o'er the dread abyss the sea-bird screams
The rocks resound
again the lightning gleams! — John Ramsay

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

The hope of all who suffer, The dread of all who wrong. — John Greenleaf Whittier

That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay. — Brian Aldiss

He makes His ministers a flame of fire. Am I ignitable? God deliver me from the dread asbestos of 'other things'. — Elisabeth Elliot

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man. — Georges Bernanos

I was thinking about New York and realized how much I hate walking around in the winter and how much I dread getting on the train. — Frankie Cosmos

Driving forward is the chief characteristic of western man since the Sumerians. His dread triad of vices is property-holding, voraciousness, and lust. — Antonio Gramsci

Shadows fell on them like predators as the light went out. — China Mieville

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

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

In you, humanity is precarious; and so, in dread and in shame, you kill the animal in you. And its slaughter poisons you. — Olaf Stapledon

Hours can pass like years when you wait impatiently for something, especially something you crave and dread at the same time. — Tara Hudson

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

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

Good night, Westley. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely kill you in the morning. — William Goldman

If you put me in a real Tardis, I dread to think what would happen to the universe. — Peter Capaldi

Horror is about fear, about rising dread and unknown terrors, and in the face of such nightmares, the acts of good people can seem insignificant. — Shane Jiraiya Cummings

The past is so much safer, because whatever's in it has already happened. It can't be changed; so, in a way, there's nothing to dread. — Margaret Atwood

A familiar pang of dread wrapped its icy hand around my heart. Lorelei Preston-The Wild Hunt — Ashley Jeffery

A redoubtable alchemy was at work behind impenetrable veils as the forest prepared it's nocturnal mysteries. — Julien Gracq

The dread that had been rising all morning rose higher in his throat as if by capillary action. — Anthony Doerr

All men needed the bridle of religion, which, properly speaking, was the dread of a Hereafter. — George Eliot

I dread the beginning of her new life more than words can tell, but I see some hope for her if she travels - none if she remains at home. — Wilkie Collins

All people suffer from the dread of death, but we are mostly troubled by the uncertainties of time and circumstance. — Roderick Graham

Oh, the dread. The horrible, awful, dreadful, dready dread. — Marian Keyes

It has
long been our contention that ' dread of society [soziale
Angsty is the essence of what is called conscience. — Sigmund Freud

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before. — Edith Wharton

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. — Epictetus

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

It's the end game that people dread and that's what I'm scared of — Terry Pratchett

The wildest imaginings that dark rumour had ever suggested to the hobbits fell altogether short of the actual dread and wonder of Moria. — J.R.R. Tolkien

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

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

We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die. — W. H. Auden

Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. — Thomas Ken

This was the part of her weekend where the real dread kicked in. — Ann Brashares

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

I'd always dread this part of being a guest in the morning - the tentative yielding into the house's normal traffic. — Kaui Hart Hemmings

Only humans dread. Dread is appropriate to nothing. It's the surplus of animal fear, it's never indicated, it's nothing but itself. — China Mieville

The man who worries about what will next be happening to him loses this moment in dread of the next, and poisons the next with pre-judgement. — Robin Hobb

Scandal is the sport of its authors, the dread of fools, and the contempt of the wise. — William Benton Clulow

The dark moppets of dread played their paranoid hopscotch across Moist's inner eyeballs. — Terry Pratchett

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

For backward or forward, eternity is the same; already have we been the nothing we dread to be. — Herman Melville

Face each day with the expectation of achieving good, rather than the dread of falling short. — Shannon Miller

I was filled with dread at the thought my mind had skipped town and left me behind to pay the rent.
Dexter — Jeff Lindsay

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

Seen no matter how and said as seen. Dread of black. Of white. Of void. Let her vanish. And the rest. For good. — Samuel Beckett

God deliver me from the dread asbestos of "other things." Saturate me with the oil of the Spirit that I may be aflame. — Jim Elliot

Dread of disaster makes everybody act in the very way that increases the disaster. — Bertrand Russell

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

Writing has often been accompanied by terror, silences, and then wild bursts of private laughter that suddenly make all the dread seem worthwhile. — Erica Jong

For it is a dreadful truth that the state of (as you say) 'having to depend solely on God' is what we all dread most. — C.S. Lewis

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

The dread had not left my soul. — Neil Gaiman

He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius. — William Gilmore Simms

And with a cold shiver of dread, Fireheart realized that the new leader of ShadowClan was Tigerclaw. — Erin Hunter

Eight grown Americans out of ten dread the coming of the Fourth, with its pandemonium and its perils, and they rejoice when it is gone-if still alive. — Mark Twain

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

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

A burnt dog dreads the fire. — Willa Cather

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

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

Why live life from dream to dream? And dread the day when dreaming ends. — Baz Luhrmann

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

The advance of science spares us from irrational dread. — Martin Rees

I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it. — John Le Carre

Fear for your life sharpens your edge. Dread dulls it, think of the creep instead, stopping him. — Dean Koontz

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

War doesn't mature men; it merely pickles them in the brine of disgust and dread. — Rex Stout

Adolescence is a twentieth-century invention most parents approach with dread and look back on with the relief of survivors. — Faye Moskowitz

The highest and most lofty trees have the most reason to dread the thunder. — Charles Rollin

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

The conclusion I dread is not, "So there's no God after all," but, "So this is what God's really like. — C.S. Lewis

[A ruler is merely] the trustee of the rights of other men and he must always stand in dread of having in some way violated these rights. — Immanuel Kant

The world dread nothing so much as being convinced of their errors. — William Hazlitt

Under the Mountain dark and tall The King has come unto his hall! His foe is dead, the Worm of Dread, And ever so his foes shall fall. — J.R.R. Tolkien

The death close before me was terrible, but far more terrible than death was the dread of being misremembered after death — Charles Dickens

Terror was the key, of course, for there's a fine line between paralyzing dread and galvanizing fright. — James Herbert

Procrastination expert Rita Emmett explains: "The dread of doing a task uses up more time and energy than doing the task itself. — Barbara Oakley

All she had ahead of her was the cold water, the slow ballet. — Lauren Groff