Dread Quotes

• I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Ink, Bottles, Paper

  Alexandre Dumas (2016). “The Count of Monte Cristo: World Classics”, p.35, World Classic

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• Anxiety is not fear, being afraid of this or that definite object, but the uncanny feeling of being afraid of nothing at all. It is precisely Nothingness that makes itself present and felt as the object of our dread.

  William Barrett

  Anxiety, Feelings, Uncanny

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  People, Findings, Dies

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• Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.

  Thomas Hardy

  Death, Fear, Bed

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Jude the Obscure: Works of Hardy”, p.69, 谷月社

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• We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die.

  W. H. Auden

  Change, Religion, Growth

  Wystan Hugh Auden (2011). “The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue”, p.105, Princeton University Press

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• When we love, we are courageous; and courage has nothing to do with being fearless, it's about being willing to experience fear, even dread, to do what we must, without guarantee of outcome.

  Vanna Bonta

  Fearless, Guarantees, Outcomes

  "Space: What Love’s Got to do with It". www.thespacereview.com. October 25, 2004.

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• Bravery does not mean being fearless. It means to be full of fear but still not being dominated by it.

  Rajneesh

  Love, Courage, Fear

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

  Joseph Joubert

  Worry, Relief, Trouble

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• The dread of criticism is the death of genius.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Fear, Weight Loss, Criticism

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• Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Freedom, Fear

  Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists: Liberty and Equality"

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• He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Fear, Criticism, Genius

  William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.25

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• Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.

  Vivien Leigh

  Fear, Lines, Sometimes

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

  John Locke

  Philosophical, Evil, Perspective

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• Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.

  Toni Morrison

  Fear, Boys, Black

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

  James Wolfe

  Fear, Army, Numbers

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• I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.

  Dennis Potter

  Travel, Fear, Airports

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• Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Fear, Philosophy, Philosophical

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• Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune.

  Owain Glyndwr

  Cousin, Fear, Long

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• The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.

  Ice T

  Phones, Play, Cities

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• I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print.

  John Mortimer

  Fear, Law, Magic

  John Mortimer (2010). “CLINGING TO THE WRECKAGE”, p.251, Penguin UK

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• Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Fear, Pride, Competition

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• Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be.

  Benjamin Spock

  Horse, Children, Fear

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• How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.

  Bram Stoker

  Dream, Sweet, Fear

  Bram Stoker (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Bram Stoker (Illustrated)”, p.537, Delphi Classics

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

  Cyril Connolly

  Love, Dream, Lonely

  "Phil Spector: What I've Learned", www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• 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.

  Dirk Benedict

  Fear, Cities, Hollywood

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