Dread Quotes - Page 17

• Anything is a temptation to those who dread it.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Temptation

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• No disease of the imagination is so difficult to cure, as that which is complicated with the dread of guilt : fancy and conscience then act interchangeably upon us, and so often shift their places, that the illusions of one are not distinguished from the dictates of the other.

  E. M. Forster

  Imagination, Guilt, Disease

  E. M. Forster (1987). “Commonplace Book”, p.76, Stanford University Press

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• A critic recently described me, with deadly acuteness, as having 'a kindly dislike of my fellow-creatures.' Perhaps dread would have been nearer the mark than dislike; for man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Animal, Men, Mark

  "George Bernard Shaw, His Life and Works (Chapter VII: The Art Critic)". Book by Archibald Henderson (pp. 201-202), 1911.

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• We have on the one hand a desperate need; hunger, sickness, and the dread of war. We have, on the other, the conception of something that might meet it: omnicompetent global technocracy. Are not these the ideal opportunity for enslavement? This is how it has entered before; a desperate need (real or apparent) in the one party, a power (real or apparent) to relieve it, in the other.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, War, Party

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• one pities most those who loved, and still died. Only those who love, dread death.

  Craig L. Rice

  Pity, Stills, Died

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• All dread those things they don't understand.

  Fannie Ellsworth Newberry

  Fear, Understanding

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• Men, not children or servants, tempered and taught to the end; Cleansed of servile panic, slow to dread or despise, Humble because of knowledge, mighty by sacrifice.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Children, Humble, Sacrifice

  Rudyard Kipling (2015). “Stories and Poems”, p.488, Oxford University Press, USA

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• As for myself, there are two things I dread, - death and marriage. I must die, but I need not marry. I have sworn I will never be taken alive.

  Molly Elliot Seawell

  Marriage, Taken, Two

  Molly Elliot Seawell (1899). “The sprightly romance of Marsac”

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• He only can create the greatest imaginable beauty who has endured all imaginable pangs, for only when we have seen and foreseen what we dread shall we be rewarded by that dazzling unforeseen wing-footed wanderer.

  William Butler Yeats

  Beauty, Wings, Unforeseen

  William Butler Yeats (1998). “Mythologies”, p.332, Simon and Schuster

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

  Bertrand Russell

  Way, Disaster, Increase

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.54, Routledge

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• In the various states of society, armies are recruited from very different motives. Barbarians are urged by the love of war; the citizens of a free republic may be prompted by a principle of duty; the subjects, or at least the nobles, of a monarchy, are animated by a sentiment of honor; but the timid and luxurious inhabitants of a declining empire must be allured into the service by the hopes of profit, or compelled by the dread of punishment.

  Edward Gibbon

  Military, War, Army

  Edward Gibbon (2016). “EDWARD GIBBON Premium Collection: Historiographical Works, Memoirs & Letters: Including "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.731, e-artnow

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• I go to bed, and I wait for sleep as a man might wait for the executioner. I wait for its coming with dread, and my heart beats and my legs tremble, while my whole body shivers beneath the warmth of the bedclothes, until the moment when I suddenly fall asleep, as a man throws himself into a pool of stagnant water in order to drown. I do not feel this perfidious sleep coming over me as I used to, but a sleep which is close to me and watching me, which is going to seize me by the head, to close my eyes and annihilate me.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Fall, Sleep, Eye

  Edgar Allan Poe, Frank Richard Stockton, H.O. Lovecraft, Guy de Maupassant, Franz Kafka (2017). “13 Short Scary Stories: Masterpieces of the greatest writers”, p.176, LeBooks Editora

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• I was now at a university in New York, a professor of existential psychology with the not inconsiderable thesis that magic, dread, and the perception of death were the roots of motivation.

  Norman Mailer

  New York, Motivation, Roots

  Norman Mailer (2013). “An American Dream: A Novel”, p.14, Random House

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• There are so few people that wake up every day and go do something that they dont dread... Im very lucky.

  Jason Isbell

  People, Lucky, Wake Up

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• Looking up at the stars, I know quite well That, for all they care, I can go to hell, But on earth indifference is the least We have to dread from man or beast. How should we like it were stars to burn With a passion for us we could not return? If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me. Admirer as I think I am Of stars that do not give a damn, I cannot, now I see them, say I missed one terribly all day. Were all stars to disappear or die, I should learn to look at an empty sky And feel its total dark sublime, Though this might take me a little time.

  W. H. Auden

  Stars, Passion, Dark

  W. H. Auden, “The More Loving One”

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• When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.

  Jules Verne

  Character, Past, Mind

  Jules Verne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jules Verne (Illustrated)”, p.4355, Delphi Classics

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• Here! 'Not thread nor glue, not nails nor screws, will ever self and shadow wed.' Helpful, those poet-types. Perhaps this one: 'Seek the grimy queen of dread machines, if you your errant shadow miss.' Now that's quite good! As a Prophetic Utterance, Third Class (Vague Hints and Mysterious Signs), you couldn't ask for better. It's downright plain-spoken!

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Queens, Self, Class

  Catherynne M. Valente (2012). “The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There”, p.202, Macmillan

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• The only time "early bloomer" has ever been applied to me is vis-a-vis my premature apprehension of the deep dread-of-existence thing. In all other cases, I plod and tromp along. My knuckles? Well dragged.

  Colson Whitehead

  Knuckles, Cases, Existence

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• There's a terrible sense of dread filtering across America at the moment and it's not simply because of the continuing fear of terrorism and the fact that the nation is at war. It's more frightening than that. It grows out of the suspicion that we all may be passengers in a vehicle that has made a radically wrong turn and is barreling along a dark road, with its headlights off and with someone behind the wheel who may not know how to drive.

  Bob Herbert

  War, Dark, America

  Bob Herbert (2007). “Promises Betrayed: Waking Up from the American Dream”, p.275, Macmillan

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• Genuine recollections almost invariably explain oneself to oneself. Suppose, for example, that you feel an instinctive aversion to some particular kind of wine. Try as you will, you can find no reason for it. Suppose when you explore a previous incarnation, you remember you died by a poisoned administered in a wine of that kind, your aversion is explained by the proverb: 'A burnt child dreads the fire.'

  Aleister Crowley

  Children, Wine, Fire

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• The nephew revenges himself for this, by holding his breath and terrifying his kinswoman with the dread belief that he has made up his mind to burst. Regardless of whispers and shakes, he swells and becomes discoloured, and yet again swells and becomes discoloured, until the aunt can bear it no longer, but leads him out, with no visible neck, and with his eyes going before him like a prawn's.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Revenge, Humorous

  Charles Dickens (1870). “Novels”, p.60

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• The secret dread of modern intellectuals, liberals and conservatives alike, the unadmitted terror at the root of their anxiety, which all of their current irrationalities are intended to stave off and to disguise, is the unstated knowledge that Soviet Russia [was] the full, actual, literal, consistent embodiment of the morality of altruism, that Stalin did not corrupt a noble ideal, that this is the only way altruism has to be or can ever be practiced.

  Ayn Rand

  Russia, Roots, Anxiety

  Ayn Rand (1984). “Philosophy: Who Needs It”, p.71, Penguin

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• Now perhaps an excessive dread of overpopulation--overcrowding--reflects not an outward reality, but an inward state of mind. If you feel overcrowded when you're not, what does that mean? Maybe that you're afraid of human contact--of being close to people, of being touched.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Mean, Reality, People

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2008). “The Lathe Of Heaven: A Novel”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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• If a dread of not being understood be hidden in the breasts of other young people to anything like the extent to which it used to be hidden in mine - which I consider probable, as I have no particular reason to suspect myself of having been a monstrosity - it is the key to many reservations.

  Charles Dickens

  Keys, People, Words Of Wisdom

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.17038, Delphi Classics

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• The ministers, who preached at these revivals, were in earnest. They were zealous and sincere. They were not philosophers. To them science was the name of a vague dread - a dangerous enemy. They did not know much, but they believed a great deal.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Names, Enemy, Atheism

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.899, Library of Alexandria

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