Dread Quotes - Page 22

• In a despotic government, the only principle by which the tyrant who is to move the whole machine means to regulate and manage the people is fear, by the servile dread of his power. But a free government, which of all others is far the most preferable, cannot be supported without virtue.

  Samuel Williams

  Moving, Mean, Government

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• The dread was built into the 2016 election - a little spoonful of dread.

  Barry Blitt

  Littles, Election, Built

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• I certainly don't mean to leave the impression that anxiety can be waved away with a simple pep talk. In fact, for some, God's healing will include the help of therapy and/or medication. If that's the case, do not for a moment think that you're a second-class citizen of heaven. Ask God to lead you to a qualified counselor or physician who'll provide the treatment you need. This much is sure: It's not God's will that you lead a life of perpetual anxiety. It's not his will that you face every day with dread and trepidation.

  Max Lucado

  Healing, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• There are characters in some short stories who exist as people, and there are other characters in different short stories who exist as purely literary constructs. You know, the young man in "Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Secret House of the Night of Dread Desire" - I probably got that right - is a literary construct, and enjoys being a literary construct. He has no life off stage, whereas the young men in "How to Talk to Girls at Parties" were as near to being real human beings as I could possibly get them.

  Neil Gaiman

  Girl, Real, Party

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I kind of dread any kind of critical response, just because it's always painful in some way. Even if it's 80 percent good, it's the 20 percent that's bad that you remember - and that's a higher number than I usually get, 80 percent would be amazing.

  David Duchovny

  Kind, Remember, Painful

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Dread not events unknown, and be not downhearted, for the fountain of the water of life is involved in obscurity.

  Bill Vaughan

  Future, Water Of Life, Events

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• OBSOLETE, adj. No longer used by the timid. Said chiefly of words. A word which some lexicographer has marked obsolete is ever thereafter an object of dread and loathing to the fool writer . . .

  Ambrose Bierce

  Lexicographer, Fool, Loathing

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.152, 谷月社

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• Like a cross between Paul Auster's The Book of Illusions and Janice Lee's Damnation, The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing is at once smart and slyly unsettling. It is expert at creating a quietly building sense of dread while claiming to do something as straightforward as describe lost films—like those conversations you have in which you realize only too late that what you actually talking about and what you think you are talking about are not the same thing at all. With Rombes, Two Dollar Radio deftly demonstrates why it is rapidly becoming the go-to press for innovative fiction.

  Brian Evenson

  Smart, Book, Thinking

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• There's nothing weirder than when your band finally gets big and you're playing sold-out arenas and you're selling millions of records, and you dread being a part of it all. It wasn't some master plan to go solo. I was just like, I would rather do my own thing, be happy, and have it be ten times less popular. That was really it. It just wasn't fun, the stress.

  Rob Zombie

  Fun, Stress, Selling

  Interview with Andrew Paul, believermag.com. November 20, 2017.

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• Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit down every day and make it up.

  Joan Didion

  Writing, Different, Fiction

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Sep 23, 2011

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• God deliver me from the dread asbestos of “other things.” Saturate me with the oil of the Spirit that I may be aflame.

  Jim Elliot

  Oil, Asbestos, May

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• You allow a horse to make mistakes, the horse will learn from mistakes no different than the human. But you can't get him to where he dreads making mistakes for fear of what's going to happen after he does.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, Mistake, Doe

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• O majesty unspeakable and dread!Wert thou less mighty than Thou art,Thou wert, O Lord, too great for our belief,Too little for our heart.

  Frederick William Faber

  Art, Littles, Majesty

  Frederick William Faber (1875). “Hymns”, p.20

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• Why do children dread mathematics? Because of the wrong approach. Because it is looked at as a subject.

  Shakuntala Devi

  Children, Mathematics, Approach

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• The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change; Then let it come: I have no dread of what Is called for by the instinct of mankind. Nor think I that God's world would fall apart Because we tear a parchment more or less. Truth is eternal, but her effluence, With endless change, is fitted to the hour; Her mirror is turned forward, to reflect The promise of the future, not the past. I do not fear to follow out the truth.

  James Russell Lowell

  Fall, Past, Thinking

  James Russell Lowell (1844). “Poems”, p.178

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• Peace is in the grave. The grave hides all things beautiful and good. I am a God and cannot find it there, Nor would I seek it; for, though dread revenge, This is defeat, fierce king, not victory.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Beautiful, Kings, Revenge

  'Prometheus Unbound' (1820) act 1, l. 638

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• Think not I dread to see my spirit fly,
  Through the dark gates of fell mortality;
  Death has no terrors when the life is true;
  'Tis living ill that makes us fear to die.

  Omar Khayyam

  Dark, Thinking, Spirit

  Omar Khayyam (1882). “The Quatrains of Omar Khayyám”

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• When the imagination is continually led to the brink of vice by a system of terror and denunciations, people fling themselves over the precipice from the mere dread of falling.

  William Hazlitt

  Fall, People, Imagination

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1484, Delphi Classics

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• The contrast between the two, the sweetness and the badness, wrenches the heart of the lover as such sweetness on its own would not, and the lover shudders all the more at dread of the beloved's recklessness, for the sake of the sweetness that is there, and the shudder only makes more violent the shuddering that announces love.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Heart, Two, Sake

  Rebecca Newberger Goldstein (2014). “Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away”, p.295, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Too many companies are happy to have workers to dread working. They have the wrong attitude because they have the wrong leadership.

  Michael J. Silverstein

  Attitude, Company, Workers

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Mother of light! how fairly dost thou go Over those hoary crests, divinely led! Art thou that huntress of the silver bow Fabled of old? Or rather dost thou tread Those cloudy summits thence to gaze below, Like the wild chamois from her Alpine snow, Where hunters never climbed--secure from dread?

  Thomas Hood

  Mother, Art, Moon

  Thomas Hood (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood (Illustrated)”, p.313, Delphi Classics

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• If I ever married, I know I would dread the daily sound of the key in the door and the casual expectancy of 'Hello! I'm home!

  Celia Imrie

  Home, Keys, Doors

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• Persons of slender intellectual stamina dread competition, as dwarfs are afraid of being run over in the street.

  William Hazlitt

  Running, Stupidity, Competition

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1467, Delphi Classics

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• To crush, to annihilate a man utterly, to inflict on him the most terrible of punishments so that the most ferocious murderer would shudder at it and dread it beforehand, one need only give him work of an absolutely, completely useless and irrational character.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Crush, Work, Character

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• One more time? For the audience?" he says. His voice isn't angry. It's hollow, which is worse. Already the boy with the bread is slipping away from me. I take his hand, holding on tightly, preparing for the cameras, and dreading the moment when I will finally have to let go.

  Suzanne Collins

  Letting Go, Boys, Hands

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.483, Scholastic Inc.

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