The Dread Quotes

There is a fear of the Lord which is the beginning of wisdom, which is founded in love. There is also a slavish fear, which is a mere dread of evil, and is purely selfish.

Dread of disaster makes everybody act in the very way that increases the disaster.

The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.

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

Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen.

I must do something to keep my thoughts fresh and growing. I dread nothing so much as falling into a rut and feeling myself becoming a fossil.

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

Heed the spark or you may dread the fire.

That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay.

The dread of criticism is the death of genius.

Borders are scratched across the hearts of men By strangers with a calm, judicial pen, And when the borders bleed we watch with dread The lines of ink across the map turn red.

One of my favorite vampire movies is 'Nosferatu,' which has a palpable sense of dread that's a pre-war dread.

Innocence has nothing to dread.

Cowardice, the dread of what will happen.

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

For many sportsmen, coming face to face with irrefutable evidence of their mortality is the moment they dread above all others.

As Benjamin Franklin said, 'Those things that hurt, instruct.' It is for this reason that wise people learn not to dread but actually to welcome problems and actually to welcome the pain of problems.

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

America is the world's policeman, all right -- a big, dumb, mick flatfoot in the middle of the one thing cops dread most, a "domestic disturbance.

Dread of night. Dread of not-night.

When your thoughts, words, and deeds form a seamless fabric, you streamline your efforts and thus eliminate worry and dread.

There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings.

When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come.

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.

Why is life speeded up so? Why are things so terribly, unbearably precious that you can't enjoy them but can only wait breathless in dread of their going?

Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.

I dread our own mistakes more than the enemy's intentions.

You know too well the forces which compose their army to dread their superior numbers.

[A ruler is merely] the trustee of the rights of other men and he must always stand in dread of having in some way violated these rights.

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.

It isn't the experience of today that drives men mad. It is the remorse for something that happened yesterday, and the dread of what tomorrow may disclose.

It may be healthier to eat beer and franks with cheer and thanks, than to eat sprouts and bread with doubts and dread.

I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.

In you, humanity is precarious; and so, in dread and in shame, you kill the animal in you. And its slaughter poisons you.

Men will flee to caves in the rocks and to holes in the ground from dread of the LORD and the splendor of his majesty, when he rises to shake the earth.

There's no secret on how to attain a greater height, just keep climbing the ladder, don't look at the dreadful distance, lock up that negative thoughts today, and fulfil your dreams.

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.

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

Preachers dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight.

Neurotics think of the past with resentment, and the future with dread; the present just doesn't exist.

It's beginnings that are hard. I always begin with a great sense of dread and trepidation. Nietzsche says that the decision to start writing is like leaping into a cold lake.

There is little peace or comfort in life if we are always anxious as to future events. He that worries himself with the dread of possible contingencies will never be at rest.

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

To dread no eye and to suspect no tongue is the great prerogative of innocence--an exemption granted only to invariable virtue.

Do that which you dread and cherish those victories with pride.

There is a possibility that your ability as a player may well be analysed by future generations on your one day statistics. That's the day I dread most.

...the power-loving temperament is more dangerous when it either prefers or is forced to operate in what is materially a void. Wehave everything to dread from the dispossessed.

people who refuse to take risks live with a feeling of dread that is far more severe than what they would feel if they took the risks necessary to make them less helpless - only they don't know it!

A burnt dog dreads the fire.