Dread Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.

We hope vaguely but dread precisely.

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

Suddenly Ka realized he was in love with İpek. And realizing that this love would determine the rest of his life, he was filled with dread.

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

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

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.

Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.

Nothing is more frightening than a fear you cannot name.

A burnt child dreads the fire.

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.

Fear is secured by a dread of punishment.

If! If! If! There were so many ifs in life, never any sense of security, always the dread of losing everything.

I dread specialists in power because they are specialists speaking outside of their special subject.

Innocence has nothing to dread.

I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.

Cowardice, the dread of what will happen.

Dread of night. Dread of not-night.

A religious ought to dread more being afraid of poverty than experiencing it.

A burnt dog dreads the fire.

Jah would never give the power to a baldhead; run come crucify the Dread.

No true love there can be without Its dread penalty--jealousy.

One may as well be optimistic. The road to catastrophe will be rougher if it's paved with dread.

Dread is a sympathetic antipathy and an antipathetic sympathy.

Present sufferings seem far greater to men than those they merely dread.

There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.

I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread.

Greatly his foes he dreads, but more his friends; He hurts me most who lavishly commends.

Is not dread of thirst when your well is full, the thirst that is unquenchable?

This was what happiness felt like - this wondrous, miraculous alternative to dread.

The greater our dread of crosses, the more necessary they are for us.

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

The burnt child dreads the fire.

...crushed between the fears of going forward and the dread of going back.

My fears are agitated to an extreme degree and the dread of death involves me in a stupor of chilling indisposition.

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.

I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it.

We dread the future only when we are not sure we can kill ourselves when we want to.

Anything is a temptation to those who dread it.

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

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

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

It is a dreadful truth that the state of having to depend solely on God is what we all dread most.... It is good of Him to force us; but dear me, how hard to feel that it is good at the time.

Dreams surround our desires with ugliness and dread.

one pities most those who loved, and still died. Only those who love, dread death.

Travelling fills me with dread.