Dread Quotes
If anyone could look into my head See or feel the dread that has captured Me or see within this sad, unhappy brain They would only turn away Turn away.
There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.
In dread fear of sentimentality, another thing true is not said-that for its staff the paper is a source of pride and, I do believe, an object of affection and-yes, love.
Greatly his foes he dreads, but more his friends; He hurts me most who lavishly commends.
A State infinitely worse than that which the most inflamed Zealot, the most violent Republican or Enthusiast even pretended to dread before the Rebellion commenced.
Fear of self is the greatest of all terrors, the deepest of all dread, the commonest of all mistakes. From it grows failure. Because of it, life is a mockery. Out of it comes despair.
Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.
Foul jealousy! that turnest love divine to joyless dread, and makest the loving heart with hateful thoughts to languish and to pine.
Who doubting tyranny, and fainting under Fortune's false lottery, desperately run To death, for dread of death; that soul's most stout, That, bearing all mischance, dares last it out.
I was thinking about New York and realized how much I hate walking around in the winter and how much I dread getting on the train.
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.
Our knowledge is a torch of smoky pine That lights the pathway but one step ahead Across a void of mystery and dread.
The least difficult thing a foreign missionary has to learn is the language; the part of her work which she has the most reason to dread is its responsibility.
God deliver me from the dread asbestos of “other things.” Saturate me with the oil of the Spirit that I may be aflame.
Every form of causeless self-doubt, every feeling of inferiority and secret unworthiness is, in fact, man's hidden dread of his inability to deal with existence.
There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits. (Preface to the French edition).
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.
As there is no pleasure in military life for a soldier who fears death, so there is no independence in civil existence for the man who has an overpowering dread of solitude.
The grave, dread thing! Men shiver when thou'rt named: Nature appalled, Shakes off her wonted firmness.
The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection of fallacies which do us no harm.
And wonder, dread and war have lingered in that land where loss and love in turn have held the upper hand.
To me so deep a silence portends some dread event; a clamorous sorrow wastes itself in sound.
No further 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.
Scandal is the sport of its authors, the dread of fools, and the contempt of the wise.
I Sing what was lost and dread what was won, / I walk in a battle fought over again.
Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.
In addition to the dread of Indians, Texas held out no inducements for Mexican emigrants.
To stand against the deep dread-bolted thunder, In the most terrible and nimble stroke Of quick, cross lightning.
The essay form has superceded the novel as the vehicle that best suggests the prevailing apocalyptic gestalt, and as the talisman that is most able to repel the onset of paralysing dread.
If I ever married, I know I would dread the daily sound of the key in the door and the casual expectancy of 'Hello! I'm home!
There’s no conscious thing on the face of the world that doesn’t know dread more intimately than its own heartbeat.
He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when he has come back from battle and the dread fray.
My fears are agitated to an extreme degree and the dread of death involves me in a stupor of chilling indisposition.
When thou attended gloriously from heaven , Shalt in the sky appear, and from thee send Thy summoning archangels to proclaim Thy dread tribunal.
