Dread famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I have become that mother I used to dread.
-- Bridget Moynahan -
Greatly his foes he dreads, but more his friends; He hurts me most who lavishly commends.
-- Charles Churchill -
one pities most those who loved, and still died. Only those who love, dread death.
-- Craig L. Rice -
I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
-- Edgar Allan Poe -
Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.
-- Emile M. Cioran -
We dread the future only when we are not sure we can kill ourselves when we want to.
-- Emile M. Cioran -
I look forward to change, but there is a part of me that absolutely dreads it.
-- Erica Durance -
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.
-- F.B. Meyer -
All dread those things they don't understand ...
-- Fannie Ellsworth Newberry -
The ignorant ever shun and dread the gifted and enlightened.
-- Francis Alexander Durivage -
The procrastinator dreads beginning, the workaholic, ending.
-- James Richardson -
I find I have to touch what I am working on every day, or a deep-seated dread kicks in that is very hard to overcome.
-- Jennifer Gilmore -
...crushed between the fears of going forward and the dread of going back.
-- Jim Crace -
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 -
Dread more the blunderer's friendship than the calumniator's enmity.
-- Johann Kaspar Lavater -
My fears are agitated to an extreme degree and the dread of death involves me in a stupor of chilling indisposition.
-- John Clare -
The gardener had a dread of small women; he'd always imagined them to have an anger disproportionate to their size.
-- John Irving -
There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.
-- Laura Ingalls Wilder -
Present sufferings seem far greater to men than those they merely dread.
-- Livy -
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.
-- Logan Pearsall Smith -
I have always had a dread of becoming a passenger in life.
-- Margrethe II of Denmark -
This was what happiness felt like - this wondrous, miraculous alternative to dread.
-- Meg Rosoff -
Suddenly Ka realized he was in love with Ä°pek. And realizing that this love would determine the rest of his life, he was filled with dread.
-- Orhan Pamuk -
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 -
Athenodorus says hydrophobia, or water-dread, was first discovered in the time of Asclepiades.
-- Plutarch -
No true love there can be without Its dread penalty--jealousy.
-- Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton -
And death? I don't fear death. I dread the absence of it.
-- Robert Charles Wilson -
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 -
Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
-- Samuel Johnson -
Why do children dread mathematics? Because of the wrong approach. Because it is looked at as a subject.
-- Shakuntala Devi -
In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.
-- Toni Morrison -
He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.
-- William Gilmore Simms -
The dread of criticism is the death of genius.
-- William Gilmore Simms -
In addition to the dread of Indians, Texas held out no inducements for Mexican emigrants.
-- William H. Wharton -
The dread was built into the 2016 election - a little spoonful of dread.
-- Barry Blitt -
I think something many of us grapple with are those times we dread the practice of writing, no matter the project.
-- Ben Doller -
A religious ought to dread more being afraid of poverty than experiencing it.
-- Ignatius of Loyola -
Alcoholism is a dread, an awful, and fatal disease.
-- Malachy McCourt -
Too many companies are happy to have workers to dread working. They have the wrong attitude because they have the wrong leadership.
-- Michael J. Silverstein -
Valentine's Day is the day all singletons like me dread
-- Michelle McManus -
I'd rather have a bullet inside of me than to be living in constant dread of one.
-- Benjamin Harrison
