Dread Quotes - page 2

No disease of the imagination is so difficult to cure, as that which is complicated with the dread of guilt: fancy and conscience then act interchangeably upon us, and so often shift their places, that the illusions of one are not distinguished from the dictates of the other. (E. M. Forster)
A critic recently described me, with deadly acuteness, as having 'a kindly dislike of my fellow-creatures.' Perhaps dread would have been nearer the mark than dislike; for man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
To get up in the morning, wash and then wait for some unforeseen variety of dread or depression. I would give the whole universe and all of Shakespeare for a grain of ataraxy. View quote
Emil Cioran
We dread the future only when we are not sure we can kill ourselves when we want to. View quote
Emil Cioran
The dread of futility has been my life-long plague. View quote
Maya Angelou
Oh their Rafael of the dear Madonnas, Oh their Dante of the dread Inferno, Wrote one songand in my brain I sing it Drew one angelborne, see, on my bosom. View quote
Robert Browning
And death? I don't fear death. I dread the absence of it. View quote
Robert Charles Wilson
I've developed a new philosophy... I only dread one day at a time. View quote
Charles M. Schulz
I want to immerse myself in American magic and dread. View quote
Don DeLillo
No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode, (There they alike in trembling hope repose,) The bosom of his Father and his God. View quote
Thomas Gray
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)
Men, not children or servants, tempered and taught to the end; Cleansed of servile panic, slow to dread or despise, Humble because of knowledge, mighty by sacrifice. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
Ought a man to be confident that he deserves his good fortune, and think much of himself when he has overcome a nation, or city, or empire; or does fortune give this as an example to the victor also of the uncertainty of human affairs, which never continue in one stay? For what time can there be for us mortals to feel confident, when our victories over others especially compel us to dread fortune, and while we are exulting, the reflection that the fatal day comes now to one, now to another, in regular succession, dashes our joy. View quote
Plutarch
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. View quote
Vanna Bonta
In love affairs, there is no mediator like a merry, simple-hearted child - ever ready to cement divided hearts, to span the unfriendly gulf of custom, to melt the ice of cold reserve, and overthrow the separating walls of dread formality and pride. View quote
Anne Brontë
It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reading is, and what shifts we make to escape thinking. There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds. View quote
James Russell Lowell
The bane of all that dread the Devil. View quote
William Wordsworth
When you come to analyze the love of money which was the general impulse to effort in your day, you find that the dread of want and desire of luxury was but one of several motives which the pursuit of money represented; the others, and with many the more influential, being desire of power, of social position, and reputation for ability and success. View quote
Edward Bellamy
The hope of all who suffer, The dread of all who wrong. View quote
John Greenleaf Whittier
Oh for a blast of that dread horn On Fontarabian echoes borne. View quote
Walter Scott
Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head, Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
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. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common sense attitude; that you could take it for granted that I was deluded. View quote
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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 they And we shall meet. View quote
John Keble
If one regards life and death as natural processes, the metaphysical dread vanishes, and one obtains "peace of mind." View quote
Peter Wessel Zapffe