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In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.
Toni Morrison
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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.
F.B. Meyer
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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.
Samuel Beckett
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I'd rather have a bullet inside of me than to be living in constant dread of one.
Benjamin Harrison
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Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
Samuel Johnson
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Why do children dread mathematics? Because of the wrong approach. Because it is looked at as a subject.
Shakuntala Devi
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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.
Orhan Pamuk
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If I am killed, I can die by once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again.
Abraham Lincoln
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He that has his trust set upon God does not need to dread anything except the weakening or the paralyzing of that trust.
Alexander MacLaren
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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.
Epictetus
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Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.
Emile M. Cioran
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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.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Nothing is more frightening than a fear you cannot name.
Cornelia Funke
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I dread specialists in power because they are specialists speaking outside of their special subject.
C. S. Lewis
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If! If! If! There were so many ifs in life, never any sense of security, always the dread of losing everything.
Margaret Mitchell
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I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Cowardice, the dread of what will happen.
Epictetus
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A religious ought to dread more being afraid of poverty than experiencing it.
Ignatius of Loyola
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Jah would never give the power to a baldhead; run come crucify the Dread.
Bob Marley
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One may as well be optimistic. The road to catastrophe will be rougher if it's paved with dread.
John Perry Barlow
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The greater our dread of crosses, the more necessary they are for us.
Francois Fenelon
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Present sufferings seem far greater to men than those they merely dread.
Livy
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Greatly his foes he dreads, but more his friends; He hurts me most who lavishly commends.
Charles Churchill
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Is not dread of thirst when your well is full, the thirst that is unquenchable?
Khalil Gibran
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This was what happiness felt like - this wondrous, miraculous alternative to dread.
Meg Rosoff
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My fears are agitated to an extreme degree and the dread of death involves me in a stupor of chilling indisposition.
John Clare
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...crushed between the fears of going forward and the dread of going back.
Jim Crace
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We dread the future only when we are not sure we can kill ourselves when we want to.
Emile M. Cioran
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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.
Logan Pearsall Smith
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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 Carre
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I look forward to change, but there is a part of me that absolutely dreads it.
Erica Durance
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The world dread nothing so much as being convinced of their errors.
William Hazlitt
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Must one dread what others dread?
Laozi
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... love dreads being isolated, being left to speak in a void -- at the beginning it would often rather listen than speak.
Elizabeth Bowen
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Don't you know that the very thing a man dreads is the thing that always happens?
Mark Twain