Dread Quotes - Page 18

• ...the power-loving temperament is more dangerous when it either prefers or is forced to operate in what is materially a void. Wehave everything to dread from the dispossessed.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Power, Void, Dangerous

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• Sometimes I dread loneliness more than bores. Other times, the reverse.

  Mason Cooley

  Loneliness, Boredom, Sometimes

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• It amazes me when I hear any person prefer blindness to deafness. Such a person must have a terrible dread of being alone. Blindness makes one totally dependent on others, and deprives us of every satisfaction that results from light.

  Horace Walpole

  Light, Satisfaction, Deafness

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• Dreams surround our desires with ugliness and dread.

  Mason Cooley

  Dream, Desire, Surround

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• Though we may not desire to detect fraud, we must not, on that account, endeavor to be insensible of it, for, as cunning is a crime, so is duplicity a fault, and if men dread knaves, they also despise fools.

  Norm MacDonald

  Men, Duplicity, Desire

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• The desire of posthumous fame and the dread of posthumous reproach and execration are feelings from the influence of which scarcely any man is perfectly free, and which in many men are powerful and constant motives of action.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Powerful, Men, Feelings

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• Ought a man to be confident that he deserves his good fortune, and think much of himself when he has overcome a nation, or city, or empire; or does fortune give this as an example to the victor also of the uncertainty of human affairs, which never continue in one stay? For what time can there be for us mortals to feel confident, when our victories over others especially compel us to dread fortune, and while we are exulting, the reflection that the fatal day comes now to one, now to another, in regular succession, dashes our joy.

  Plutarch

  Men, Thinking, Reflection

  Plutarch (2012). “Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans: Complete”, p.371, Simon and Schuster

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• Who looks at me, beholdeth sorrows all, All pain, all torture, woe and all distress; I have no need on other harms to call, As anguish, languor, cruel bitterness, Discomfort, dread, and madness more and less; Methinks from heaven above the tears must rain In pity for my harsh and cruel pain.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Pain, Rain, Heaven

  Geoffrey Chaucer (2012). “Troilus and Cressida”, p.173, Courier Corporation

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• Dread more the blunderer's friendship than the calumniator's enmity.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Friendship, Enmity

  "Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. ; [One line from Juvenal]" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.

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• I know little of women. But I've heard dread tales.

  Harold Pinter

  Women, Littles, Tales

  Harold Pinter (2013). “Moonlight”, p.31, Faber & Faber

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• America is the world's policeman, all right -- a big, dumb, mick flatfoot in the middle of the one thing cops dread most, a "domestic disturbance.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  America, Dumb, Middle East

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer”, p.167, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The great tragedy of Alzheimer's disease, and the reason why we dread it, is that it leaves us with no defence, not even against those who love us.

  P. D. James

  Alzheimer's, Tragedy, Disease

  P. D. James (2007). “Time to Be in Earnest”, p.240, Vintage

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• Simplicity of manner is the last attainment. Men are very long afraid of being natural, from the dread of being taken for ordinary.

  Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey

  Taken, Men, Long

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• He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when he has come back from battle and the dread fray.

  Homer

  Children, Long, Battle

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• Doth sickness fill my heart with fear, 'Tis sweet to know that Thou art near; Am I with dread of justice tried, 'Tis sweet to know that Christ hath died.

  James Edmeston

  Sweet, Art, Justice

  James Edmeston (1799). “Hymns for the Chamber of Sickness”, p.19

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• In you, humanity is precarious; and so, in dread and in shame, you kill the animal in you. And its slaughter poisons you.

  Olaf Stapledon

  Animal, Humanity, Poison

  Olaf Stapledon (1972). “Last and first men, and Last men in London”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• There is nothing more dread and more shameless than a woman who plans such deeds in her heart as the foul deed which she plotted when she contrived her husband's murder.

  Homer

  Husband, Heart, Deeds

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• Though the Indian ocean abounds in rich and rare gems, it does not boast a clearer sky nor more unruffled sea. If there be a shore that dreads not the fury of the faithless billows, it is some poor and narrow inlet unknown to the winds.

  Pietro Metastasio

  Ocean, Sky, Wind

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• Consider how august a privilege it is, when angels are present, and archangels throng around, when cherubim and seraphim encircle with their blaze the throne, that a mortal may approach with unrestrained confidence, and converse with heaven's dread Sovereign! O, what honor was ever conferred like this?

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Prayer, Angel, August

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 459, 1895.

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• Hark! o'er the dread abyss the sea-bird screams-- The rocks resound--again the lightning gleams!

  John Ramsay

  Rocks, Sea, Bird

  John Ramsay (1836). “Poems”, p.9

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• Suicide is a whispered word, inappropriate for polite company. Family and friends often pretend they do not hear the word's dread sound even when it is uttered. For suicide is a taboo subject that stigmatizes not only the victim but the survivors as well.

  Earl A Grollman

  Suicide, Family And Friends, Sound

  Earl A. Grollman (1988). “Suicide: Prevention, Intervention, Postvention”, p.1, Beacon Press

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• Yesterday I wrote the majority of a song called 'Burn the Nightclub Down' which was about kind of driving into Cleveland full of dread at the prospect of playing at this night club and actually just the night before I had called my girlfriend whose birthday it was. And it's her birthday and here I am on the road in some hellhole in Ann Arbor in Michigan.

  Rhett Miller

  Song, Girlfriend, Night

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• no hour arrives so soon as the one we dread.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Fear, Expectations, Hours

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1852). “Romance and reality”, p.162

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• Our first love-letter ... There is so much to be said, and which no words seems exactly to say - the dread of saying too much is so nicely balanced by the fear of saying too little. Hope borders on presumption, and fear on reproach.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  First Love, Letters, Littles

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and Reality”, p.232

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• The greater our dread of crosses, the more necessary they are for us.

  Francois Fenelon

  Trouble, Crosses, Greater

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