Dread Quotes - Page 13

• Thin ribbons of fear snake bluely through you like a system of rivers. We need a cloudburst or soothing landscape fast, to still this panic. Maybe a field of dracaena, or a vast stand of sugar pines—generous, gum-yielding trees—to fill our minds with vegetable wonder and keep dread at bay.

  Amy Gerstler

  Fear, Vegetables, Snakes

  Amy Gerstler (2000). “Medicine”, p.21, Penguin

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• Theatre remains the only thing I understand. It is in the community of theatre that I have my being. In spite of jealousies and fears, emotional conflicts and human tensions; in spite of the penalty of success and the dread of failure; in spite of tears and feverish gaiety this is the only life I know. It is the life I love.

  Robert Helpmann

  Emotional, Community, Tears

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• Why do we dread adversity when we know that facing it is the only way to become stronger, smarter, better?

  John Wooden

  Adversity, Stronger, Way

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• God is down in front. He is in the tomorrows. It is tomorrow that fills men with dread. God is there already. All the tomorrows of our life have to pass Him before they can get to us.

  F.B. Meyer

  Men, Tomorrow, God Is There

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• The bravest man feels an anxiety 'circa praecordia' as he enters the battle; but he dreads disgrace yet more.

  Horatio Nelson

  Men, Anxiety, Battle

  Attributed to Locker's Greenwich Gallery article "Torrington" in Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan "The Life of Nelson, Volume 2: The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain" (p. 52), 1897.

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• When a daring idea first crosses one's mind, if it is to be realized in the future it is often appealing. Then, as the time for its execution comes nearer, one begins to dread that which had once been anticipated.

  Cynthia Voigt

  Ideas, Mind, Firsts

  Cynthia Voigt (2013). “The Callender Papers”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• With what dread and apprehension we entrust important jobs into the hands of others. Imagine the love of a needless God who is willing to want our work.

  Calvin Miller

  Jobs, Hands, Important

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• Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head

  William Cowper

  Blessing, Clouds, Saint

  William Cowper, “Light Shining Out Of Darkness”

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• Many people look upon change with dread and foreboding. But for those on the spiritual path-for those who believe in God and the power of prayer-change is a fuller expression of life. When a problem or condition arises in your life that indicates a change, rely upon God, and realize that it is not so much that a door has closed on a chapter of your life, but rather that a door has opened on new and more interesting things.

  Emmet Fox

  Change, Spiritual, Prayer

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• The executive, in our government is not the sole, it is scarcely the principle, object of my jealousy. The tyranny of the legislature is the most formidable dread at present and will be for many years. That of the executive will come in its turn, but it will be at a remote period.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Years, Voting

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph”

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• Me & the dread yo, give em some head blow Long as he know he keep me flier than a Red Bull

  Nicki Minaj

  Blow, Long, Giving

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• Within this arena, which grows more stable night after day, generations work and love and hope and vanish. New generations tread on the corpses of their fathers, continue the work above the abyss and struggle to tame the dread mystery. How? By cultivating a single field, by kissing a woman, by studying a stone, an animal, an idea.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Father, Struggle, Kissing

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Saviors of God”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• It's the beginning of your day. You awake and look around you, feeling perhaps a joyful expectation, or perhaps an awful dread. No matter which, remember this: God loves you with an infinite love.

  Marianne Williamson

  God, Love You, Expectations

  Marianne Williamson (2004). “Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles”, p.59, Penguin

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• 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?

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Life, Waiting, Enjoy

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1973). “Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead”

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• The evening passes somehow; I watch television with Nancy, or I write. It is difficult, not having a family, and it is difficult to explain. I always go to bed early. And I am always ready for Monday morning, that time that other people dread.

  Anita Brookner

  Monday, Morning, Writing

  Anita Brookner (2012). “Look at Me”, p.84, Vintage

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• It's the end game that people dread and that's what I'm scared of

  Terry Pratchett

  Alzheimer's, Games, People

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• A poet articulating the dreads and horrors of our time is necessary in order to make readers understand what is happening, really understand it, not just know about it but feel it: and should be accompanied by a willingness on the part of those who write it to take additional action towards stopping the great miseries which they record.

  Denise Levertov

  Writing, Order, Stopping

  Denise Levertov (1992). “New & Selected Essays”, p.146, New Directions Publishing

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• We were that generation called silent, but we were silent neither, as some thought, because we shared the period's official optimism nor, as others thought, because we feared its official repression. We were silent because the exhilaration of social action seemed to many of us just one more way of escaping the personal, of masking for a while that dread of the meaningless which was man's fate.

  Joan Didion

  Fate, Men, Escaping

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Aug 24, 2011

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• Every morning I woke in dread, waiting for the day nurse to go on her rounds and announce from the list of names in her hand whether or not I was for shock treatment, the new and fashionable means of quieting people and of making them realize that orders are to be obeyed and floors are to be polished without anyone protesting and faces are to be made to be fixed into smiles and weeping is a crime.

  Janet Frame

  Morning, Mean, Hands

  Janet Frame (1980). “Faces in the water”

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• I have a dread of sounding pretentious and try not to talk too much about what I do.

  James Herbert

  Trying, Too Much, Pretentious

  "From the archive: James Herbert on rats and redemption". Interview with Andrew Billen, www.theguardian.com. 1993.

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• The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology.

  James G. Frazer

  Family, Mother, Men

  "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.

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• The three most effective incentives to human action may be ... classified as creed, greed and dread. ... In examining the scientist it is perhaps worth while to examine how far he is moved by these three incentives. I think that, rather peculiarly and rather exceptionally, he is very little moved by dread. ... He is in fact essentially a person who has been taught he must be fearless in his dealing with facts.

  Robert Watson-Watt

  Science, Thinking, Effectiveness

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• I dread our own power, and our own ambition; I dread our being too much dreaded... We may say that we shall not abuse this astonishing, and hitherto unheard-of-power. But every other nation will think we shall abuse it. It is impossible but that, sooner or later, this state of things must produce a combination against us which may end in our ruin.

  Edmund Burke

  Ambition, Thinking, Abuse

  Edmund Burke's remarks on the policy of the allies, as quoted in "The Works of Edmund Burke", 1839.

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• I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now that I am older I find that I don't want to do them.

  Nancy Astor

  Getting Older, Want, Able

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• The hope of all who suffer, The dread of all who wrong.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Hope, Suffering

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.315

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