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• Poverty is one of them kind of misfortunes that we all of us dread but none of us pity.

  Josh Billings

  Poverty, Kind, Pity

  Josh Billings (1874). “Everybody's Friend, Or Josh Billing's Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor”, p.232

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• What am I always going to do? I'm going to go home and freak out.I'm going to sit with my family and try not to talk about myself and what's wrong. Im going to try and eat. Then I'm going to try and sleep. I dread it. I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?

  Ned Vizzini

  Home, Sleep, Trying

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• 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).

  Karl Marx

  Path, Royal, Chance

  David Harvey, Karl Marx (2010). “A companion to Marx's Capital”, Verso Books

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• Underground. Which I hate. Like mines and tunnels and 13. Underground, where I dread dying, which is stupid because even if I die aboveground, the next thing they'll do is bury me underground anyway.

  Suzanne Collins

  Hate, Stupid, Tunnels

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• Her free hand was clenched in a fist. I held still, waiting for her to say something, to tell me she should have never left me here, where her friends might look to me for help. Finally she looked at me. Her eyes were hard, but she'd let no tears fall. "This is where we blame those who are responsible, Cooper, she told me, her voice very soft. "The colemongers, and the bought Dogs at Tradesmen's kennel. We'll leave an offering for him with the Black God when all this is done, and we'll occupy ourselves with tearing these colemongers apart. all right? We put grief aside for now.

  Tamora Pierce

  Dog, Grief, Fall

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• Come, hearken then, ere voice of dread, with bitter tiding laden, shall summon to unwelcome bed a melancholy maiden! We are but older children, dear, who fret to find our bedtime near.

  Lewis Carroll

  Children, Voice, Bed

  Lewis Carroll (2010). “The Complete Alice in Wonderland”, p.170, Dynamite

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• 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

  Fear, Lonesome, Trekking

  'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' (1798) pt. 6

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• But I was wrong. I should have known it wasn't owver, couldn't be over quite easily. No sooner was Xavier out of sight than a little cylinder of paper fell from the top of my locker. As I unrolled it, I knew I'd see black calligraphy crawling across it like a spider. Dread settled around me like a fog as the words burned into my brain: The Lake of Fire awaits my lady

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Fire, Lakes, Sight

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• Always in the big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there will be, along with the feelings of curiosity and excitement, a little nagging of dread. It is the ancient fear of the Unknown, and it is your first bond with the wilderness you are going into.

  Wendell Berry

  Challenges, Feelings, Risk

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• I mean that I value vision, and dread being struck stone blind.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Mean, Vision, Stones

  Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Villette: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.196, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Nothing is more frightening than a fear you cannot name.

  Cornelia Funke

  Names, Inkheart, Frightening

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.107, Scholastic Inc.

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• It is the fool who is haunted by fears, dread of dangers, oppression of mind, not the wise man.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Men, Mind

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• Waiting for the horror is almost more frightening than actually seeing it. Just the pending dread.

  Matthijs van Heijningen, Jr.

  Waiting, Horror, Pending

  Source: collider.com

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• It began as most thing begin. Not on a dark and stormy night. Not foreshadowed by ominous here comes the villain music, dire warning at the bottom of a teacup, or dread portents in the sky. It began small and innocuously, as most catastrophes do. A butterfly flaps its wings somewhere and the wind changes, and a warm front hits a cold front off the coast of western Africa and before you know it you’ve got an hurricane closing in. By the time anyone figured out the storm was coming, it was too late to do anything but batten down the hatches and exercise damage control.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Butterfly, Exercise, Dark

  FaceBook post by Karen Marie Moning from Jun 06, 2013

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• Every man becomes the image of the God he adores. He whose worship is directed to a dead thing becomes dead. He who loves corruption rots. He who loves a shadow becomes, himself, a shadow. He who loves things that must perish lives in dread of their perishing.

  Thomas Merton

  Men, Shadow, Worship

  Thomas Merton (2002). “No Man Is an Island”, p.263, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Our own front door can be a wonderful thing, or a sight we dread; rarely is it only a door.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Sight, Doors, Wonderful

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• I experience religious dread whenever I find myself thinking that I know the limits of God’s grace, since I am utterly certain it exceeds any imagination a human being might have of it. God does, after all, so love the world.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Religious, Thinking, Imagination

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

  Meg Rosoff

  Alternatives, Miraculous, Felt

  Meg Rosoff (2011). “There Is No Dog”, p.145, Penguin UK

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• I dread no more the first white in my hair, Or even age itself, the easy shoe, The cane, the wrinkled hands, the special chair: Time, doing this to me, may alter too My anguish, into something I can bear

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Hair, Hands, Shoes

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Selected Poems”

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• The day the process of acting becomes something that I dread is the end. Obviously, why would you do something that you hate? I won't do that.

  Shailene Woodley

  Hate, Acting, Ends

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

  Francis Beaumont

  Running, Soul, Doubt

  Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher (1750). “The Works of Francis Beaumont, and Mr. John Fletcher: The two noble kinsmen; Thierry and Theodoret; The woman-hater; The nice valour; The honest man's fortune; A masque; Four plays or moral representations in one”, p.433

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• I know a lot of people dread going to work every morning, but my work is playing pretend and doing stunts and screaming. It's a lot of fun and I get to play dress up. Every day is exciting and different and new and cool. I couldn't be more grateful.

  Nina Dobrev

  Morning, Fun, Grateful

  "Nina Dobrev: Our season finale will drive fans crazy!". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. April 8, 2010.

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• She lost much of her appetite. At night, an invisible hand kept shaking her awake every few hours. Grief was physiological, a disturbance of the blood. Sometimes a whole minute would pass in nameless dread - the bedside clock ticking, the blue moonlight coating the window like glue - before she`d remember the brutal fact that had caused it.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Grief, Night, Blue

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2011). “The Marriage Plot: A Novel”, p.78, Macmillan

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• Others of us are lost. We're forever seeking. We torture ourselves with philosophies and ache to see the world. We question everything, even our own existence. We ask a lifetime of questions and are never satisfied with the answers because we don't recognize anyone as an authority to give them. We see life and the world as an enormous puzzle that we might never understand, that our questions might go unanswered until the day we die, almost never occurs to us. And when it does, it fills us with dread.

  Lisa Unger

  Philosophy, Giving, Forever

  Lisa Unger (2010). “Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You”, p.695, Crown

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• I was filled with dread at the thought my mind had skipped town and left me behind to pay the rent." --Dexter

  Jeff Lindsay

  Mind, Towns, Pay

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