The Dread Quotes

Most people dread finding out when they come to die that they have never really lived.

Her chief dread in life, at this period of her development, was that she would appear narrow minded; what she feared next afterwards was that she should be so.

There is nothing more dread and more shameless than a woman who plans such deeds in her heart as the foul deed which she plotted when she contrived her husband's murder.

No hell will frighten men away from sin; no dread of prospective misery; only goodness can cast hell out of any man, and set up the kingdom of heaven within.

Doth sickness fill my heart with fear, 'Tis sweet to know that Thou art near; Am I with dread of justice tried, 'Tis sweet to know that Christ hath died.

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

I have a dread of sounding pretentious and try not to talk too much about what I do.

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

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.

Anything is a temptation to those who dread it.

We dread old age, which are not sure of being able to attain. [Fr., L'on craint la vieillesse, que l'on n'est pas sur de pouvoir atteindre.]

The same common sense which makes an author write good things, makes him dread they are not good enough to deserve reading.

Our own front door can be a wonderful thing, or a sight we dread; rarely is it only a door.

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

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.

Actors dread working with studios because they dictate what you do in a way that independent movies can't.

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

Dread more the blunderer's friendship than the calumniator's enmity.

The hope of all who suffer, The dread of all who wrong.

The gardener had a dread of small women; he'd always imagined them to have an anger disproportionate to their size.

The deeds we do, the words we say,Into still air they seem to fleet;We count them ever past;But they shall last -In the dread judgment theyAnd we shall meet.

Careful observers may foretell the hour (By sure prognostics) when to dread a show'r. While rain depends, the pensive cat gives o'er Her frolics, and pursues her tail no more.

Poverty is one of them kind of misfortunes that we all of us dread but none of us pity.

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

Even before 9/11 I was gripped by a sense of dread: our lack of criticism about what we were doing in the Middle East - the slagging off of a whole religious tradition.

Must one dread what others dread?

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

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

no hour arrives so soon as the one we dread.

Come, hearken then, ere voice of dread, with bitter tiding laden, shall summon to unwelcome bed a melancholy maiden! We are but older children, dear, who fret to find our bedtime near.

What turns a work crisis into a life crisis is the infusion of dread.

World of words lost on the living / I take my place with the walking dead / Robbed of my voice I'm always giving / Thousands of words to this nameless dread.

Alcoholism is a dread, an awful, and fatal disease.

Wonder has no opposite; it springs up already doubled in itself, compounded of dread and desire at once, attraction and recoil, producing a thrill, the shudder of pleasure and of fear.

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.

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

Don't you know that the very thing a man dreads is the thing that always happens?

Dreams surround our desires with ugliness and dread.

Waiting for the horror is almost more frightening than actually seeing it. Just the pending dread.

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

The dread of futility has been my life-long plague.

Too many companies are happy to have workers to dread working. They have the wrong attitude because they have the wrong leadership.

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

I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now that I am older I find that I don't want to do them.

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.

I dread the idea of a paparazzi snapping me while I'm out running.

Peace is in the grave. The grave hides all things beautiful and good. I am a God and cannot find it there, Nor would I seek it; for, though dread revenge, This is defeat, fierce king, not victory.

Athenodorus says hydrophobia, or water-dread, was first discovered in the time of Asclepiades.

There is a certain freedom in giving up all hope. One is no longer bound by the cords of dread or fear; you simply move toward the inevitable without thinking on the consequences.

You dread that there will be real problems during filming.