Dread Quotes

Dread Quote of the day

Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.

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.

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.

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

Think not I dread to see my spirit fly, Through the dark gates of fell mortality; Death has no terrors when the life is true; 'Tis living ill that makes us fear to die.

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.

Anyone who's a parent dreads that call in the middle of the night. I have four grown children and I still dread it.

We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived.

I'd rather have a bullet inside of me than to be living in constant dread of one.

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

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

Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.

Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.

We hope vaguely but dread precisely.

If one regards life and death as natural processes, the metaphysical dread vanishes, and one obtains peace of mind.

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

Nature reaches out to us with welcoming arms, and bids us enjoy her beauty; but we dread her silence and rush into the crowded cities, there to huddle like sheep fleeing from a ferocious wolf.

I had my nearest and most intimate glimpses of the presence of my Lord in those dread moments when musket, club or spear was being levelled at my life.

To ignore or use silence is a cruel tool. Hence this quote: Silence is all we dread; there's ransom in a voice; but silence is infinity.

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

Love of life is born of the awareness of death, of the dread of it.

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

If I am killed, I can die by once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again.

People are always surprised when they see me speak live that I have a sense of humor. And I say, Well, you know, there's not much opportunity to laugh when you're reporting the dread news of the day.

Deep within every man there lies the dread of being alone in the world, forgotten by God, overlooked among the tremendous household of millions and millions.

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

[All religious sects] dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight; and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversion of the duperies in which they live.

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

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

Oh, you a E head, oh, you a weed head I got a big gun, bigger than Maxi Priest 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.

...what I dread more than anything else in this life is noise...silence helps you to go inward..anyone who is interested in something more than just life outside actually needs silence.

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

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay.

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

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

OBSOLETE, adj. No longer used by the timid. Said chiefly of words. A word which some lexicographer has marked obsolete is ever thereafter an object of dread and loathing to the fool writer . . .

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

Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.

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

Death happens but once, yet we feel it every moment of our lives; it is worse to dread it than to suffer it.

And if sun comes / How shall we greet him? / Shall we not dread him, / Shall we not fear him / After so lengthy a / Session with shade?

It is the fool who is haunted by fears, dread of dangers, oppression of mind, not the wise man.

Nothing is more frightening than a fear you cannot name.

Dread is a womanish debility in which freedom swoons. Psychologically speaking, the fall into sin always occurs in impotence. But dread is at the same time the most egotistic thing.

When we love, we are courageous; and courage has nothing to do with being fearless, it's about being willing to experience fear, even dread, to do what we must, without guarantee of outcome.

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