Dread Quotes - Page 2

• I have always had a dread of becoming a passenger in life.

  Margrethe II of Denmark

  Inspirational, Memorable, Adventure

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Good night, Westley. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely kill you in the morning.

  William Goldman

  Romantic, Good Night, Goodnight

  William Goldman (1995). “William Goldman: Four Screenplays with Essays”, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• A State infinitely worse than that which the most inflamed Zealot, the most violent Republican or Enthusiast even pretended to dread before the Rebellion commenced.

  Charles Inglis

  Fear, Republican, Rebellion

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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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• He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

  Seneca the Younger

  Fear, Too Much, Hostility

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

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• His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught.

  Edmund Waller

  Fear, Men, Suffering

  Edmund Waller, Sir John Denham (1857). “The poetical works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham”, p.184

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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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• My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Time, Fear, Long

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. IX (in 12 Volumes)”, p.210, Cosimo, Inc.

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• There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.

  Washington Irving

  Fear, Real, Humble

  Washington Irving (1999). “Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories”, p.95, Penguin

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• Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell.

  Beatrice Webb

  Strong, Fear, Patient

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• The law serves of nought else in these days but for to do wrong, for nothing is spread almost but false matters by color of the law for reward, dread and favor and so no remedy is had in the Court of Equity in any way.

  Jack Cade

  Fear, Color, Law

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• In dread fear of sentimentality, another thing true is not said-that for its staff the paper is a source of pride and, I do believe, an object of affection and-yes, love.

  Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

  True Love, Believe, Pride

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• I requested the gentlemen to put on their hats, and the ladies their shawls, to avoid catching cold, and then had the windows widely opened. This proceeding caused some astonishment and alarm at first; for the Americans generally have a dread of cold air.

  George Combe

  Fear, Air, Gentleman

  George Combe (1841). “Notes on the United States of North America: During a Phrenological Visit in 1838-9-40”, p.85

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• As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.

  Hans Selye

  Fear, Self Esteem, Approval Of Others

  hans selye (1974). “stress without distress”

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• I am at the stage of my life everyone dreads - that of filling my days with the past, because there is little future left.

  Lucinda Riley

  Past, Littles, Filling

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• Le silence e  ternel de ces espaces infinis m'effraie. The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.

  Blaise Pascal

  Space, Silence, Infinite

  c.1654-1662 Pense es, no.206 (translated byA Krailsheimer).

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• Preachers dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Faith Religion, Daylight, Witch

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• Organic chemistry just now is enough to drive one mad. It gives me the impression of a primeval forest full of the most remarkable things, a monstrous and boundless thicket, with no way of escape, into which one may well dread to enter.

  Friedrich Wohler

  Giving, Mad, May

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• I believe that obstinacy, or the dread of control and discipline, arises not so much from self-willedness as from a conscious defect of voluntary power; as foolhardiness is not seldom the disguise of conscious timidity.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Believe, Self, Discipline

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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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• It is the dread of something happening, something unknown and dreadful, that makes us do anything to keep the flicker of talk from dying out.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Dying, Flicker, Happenings

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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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• 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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• In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.

  Toni Morrison

  Artist, Silent

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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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