Dread Quotes

Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown. (Emil Cioran)
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
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. View quote
Brian Aldiss
Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before. View quote
Edith Wharton
The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread. View quote
Blaise Pascal
I dread our own mistakes more than the enemy's intentions. View quote
Thucydides
Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt! May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, heart-wrung tears as poured from mine. May you never appeal to Heaven in prayers so hopeless and so agised as in that hour left my lips: for never may you, like me, dread to be the instrument of evil to what you wholly love. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. View quote
William Tecumseh Sherman
The Grave, dread thing! Men shiver when thou 'rt named: Nature, appall'd, Shakes off her wonted firmness. View quote
Robert Blair
It must be so - Plato, thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, O falling into nought? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. View quote
Joseph Addison
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 Carré)
The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married. View quote
Cyril Connolly
Fate steals along with silent tread, Found oftenest in what least we dread Frowns in the storm with angry brow, But in the sunshine strikes the blow. View quote
William Cowper
Innocence has nothing to dread. View quote
Jean Racine
The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen. View quote
Aldous Huxley
I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print. View quote
John Mortimer
There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution. View quote
John Adams
They (preachers) dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversions of the duperies on which they live. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
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. View quote
Marina Warner
O majesty unspeakable and dread!Wert thou less mighty than Thou art,Thou wert, O Lord, too great for our belief,Too little for our heart. View quote
Frederick William Faber
Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show. (Vivien Leigh)
The secret dread of modern intellectuals, liberals and conservatives alike, the unadmitted terror at the root of their anxiety, which all of their current irrationalities are intended to stave off and to disguise, is the unstated knowledge that Soviet Russia [was] the full, actual, literal, consistent embodiment of the morality of altruism, that Stalin did not corrupt a noble ideal, that this is the only way altruism has to be or can ever be practiced. View quote
Ayn Rand
The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology. View quote
James Frazer
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. View quote
W. H. Auden
I was now at a university in New York, a professor of existential psychology with the not inconsiderable thesis that magic, dread, and the perception of death were the roots of motivation. View quote
Norman Mailer