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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• 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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• The dread of criticism is the death of genius.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Fear, Weight Loss, Criticism

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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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• 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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• 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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• Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.

  William Butler Yeats

  Fear, Animal, Men

  The Winding Stair (1929) "Death"

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• During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the hope of immortality, I am as weary of that as I am of gods and kings. For my own sake only I write this; and herein I differ from all other writers, past and to come.

  Mika

  Kings, Fear, Writing

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• Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

  Edith Wharton

  Art, Fear, Immature

  The Writing of Fiction (1925) ch. 1

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• What misery to live in this world! We are like men whose enemies are at the door, who must not lay aside their arms, even while sleeping or eating, and are always in dread lest the foe should enter the fortress by some breach in the walls. O my Lord and my all! How canst thou wish us to prize such a wretched existence?

  Teresa of Avila

  Life, Wall, Sleep

  St. Teresa of Avila (1921). “The Interior Castle, or the Mansions”, p.4, Library of Alexandria

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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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• [All religious sects] dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight; and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversion of the duperies in which they live.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Faith Religion, Daylight

  Thomas Jefferson (1964). “The Jefferson Bible: With the Annotated Commentaries on Religion of Thomas Jefferson”

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• I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like the state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Success, Business, Goal

  Letter to Ellen Terry, 28 Aug. 1896

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• It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it's separating himself from all the others.

  Helen Rowland

  Marriage, Fear, Men

  Helen Rowland (1909). “Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”

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• When you come to analyze the love of money which was the general impulse to effort in your day, you find that the dread of want and desire of luxury was but one of several motives which the pursuit of money represented; the others, and with many the more influential, being desire of power, of social position, and reputation for ability and success.

  Edward Bellamy

  Luxury, Effort, Desire

  Edward Bellamy (2016). “Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887: American literature”, p.47, VM eBooks

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• Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Strong, Fear, People

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• If I know that I shall be as an angel, and more; if I shall behold all God has made; if he shall own me for his son and exalt me to honor in his presence, I shall not fear to die, nor shall I dread the grave where Christ once lay.

  Matthew Simpson

  Fear, Angel, Son

  Matthew Simpson (1885). “Sermons”

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• A man who dreads trials and difficulties cannot become a revolutionary. If he is to become a revolutionary with an indomitable fighting spirit, he must be tempered in the arduous struggle from his youth. As the saying goes, early training means more than late earning.

  Kim Jong Il

  Fear, Struggle, Mean

  Chŏng-il Kim, Jong Il Kim (1989). “The Present Times and the Tasks Facing Young People: Talk to the Senior Officials of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, October 12, 1988”

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• Dread of night. Dread of not-night.

  Franz Kafka

  Fear, Night

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Fear, Inspire, Great Unknown

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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• My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Wisdom, Humble, Pride

  William Tecumseh Sherman (1990). “Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman”, p.729, Library of America

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• The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.

  Aldous Huxley

  Fear, Innovation, Atheism

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• I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Inspirational, Funny, Change

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

  Georges Bernanos

  Fear, Men, Bravery

  Georges Bernanos (1962). “The Diary of a Country Priest”

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