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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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• It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it's separating himself from all the others.

  Helen Rowland

  Marriage, Fear, Men

  Helen Rowland (1909). “Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”

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• Dread of night. Dread of not-night.

  Franz Kafka

  Fear, Night

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Fear, Inspire, Great Unknown

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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• If I know that I shall be as an angel, and more; if I shall behold all God has made; if he shall own me for his son and exalt me to honor in his presence, I shall not fear to die, nor shall I dread the grave where Christ once lay.

  Matthew Simpson

  Fear, Angel, Son

  Matthew Simpson (1885). “Sermons”

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• A man who dreads trials and difficulties cannot become a revolutionary. If he is to become a revolutionary with an indomitable fighting spirit, he must be tempered in the arduous struggle from his youth. As the saying goes, early training means more than late earning.

  Kim Jong Il

  Fear, Struggle, Mean

  Chŏng-il Kim, Jong Il Kim (1989). “The Present Times and the Tasks Facing Young People: Talk to the Senior Officials of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, October 12, 1988”

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• The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.

  Aldous Huxley

  Fear, Innovation, Atheism

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• My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Wisdom, Humble, Pride

  William Tecumseh Sherman (1990). “Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman”, p.729, Library of America

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• Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Strong, Fear, People

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• During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the hope of immortality, I am as weary of that as I am of gods and kings. For my own sake only I write this; and herein I differ from all other writers, past and to come.

  Mika

  Kings, Fear, Writing

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• [All religious sects] dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight; and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversion of the duperies in which they live.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Faith Religion, Daylight

  Thomas Jefferson (1964). “The Jefferson Bible: With the Annotated Commentaries on Religion of Thomas Jefferson”

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• What misery to live in this world! We are like men whose enemies are at the door, who must not lay aside their arms, even while sleeping or eating, and are always in dread lest the foe should enter the fortress by some breach in the walls. O my Lord and my all! How canst thou wish us to prize such a wretched existence?

  Teresa of Avila

  Life, Wall, Sleep

  St. Teresa of Avila (1921). “The Interior Castle, or the Mansions”, p.4, Library of Alexandria

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• When you come to analyze the love of money which was the general impulse to effort in your day, you find that the dread of want and desire of luxury was but one of several motives which the pursuit of money represented; the others, and with many the more influential, being desire of power, of social position, and reputation for ability and success.

  Edward Bellamy

  Luxury, Effort, Desire

  Edward Bellamy (2016). “Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887: American literature”, p.47, VM eBooks

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• We hope vaguely but dread precisely.

  Paul Valery

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• If one regards life and death as natural processes, the metaphysical dread vanishes, and one obtains peace of mind.

  Peter Wessel Zapffe

  Life And Death, Mind, Natural

  "To Be a Human Being". Documentary, 1990.

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• The dread of futility has been my life-long plague.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Long, Futility

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.190, Modern Library

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• When people do not dread authorities, then a greater dread descends.

  Laozi

  People, Taoism, Authority

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• The world dread nothing so much as being convinced of their errors.

  William Hazlitt

  Errors, World, Convinced

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays by W. H. Now first collected [and edited] by his son”, p.160

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• We dread the future only when we are not sure we can kill ourselves when we want to.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Want, Not Sure

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

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• A religious ought to dread more being afraid of poverty than experiencing it.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Religious, Poverty, Ought

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• Dread is a sympathetic antipathy and an antipathetic sympathy.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Sympathy, Sympathetic, Antipathy

  Soren Kierkegaard, Alastair Hannay (2014). “The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Oriented Deliberation in View of the Dogmatic Problem of Hereditary Sin”, p.51, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Dread is a womanish debility in which freedom swoons. Psychologically speaking, the fall into sin always occurs in impotence. But dread is at the same time the most egotistic thing.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Fall, Sin, Impotence

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• Fortune dreads the brave, and is only terrible to the coward.

  Seneca the Younger

  Brave, Coward, Fortune

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• Even before 9/11 I was gripped by a sense of dread: our lack of criticism about what we were doing in the Middle East - the slagging off of a whole religious tradition.

  Karen Armstrong

  Religious, Criticism, Middle East

  "A question of faith" by Madeleine Bunting, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2007.

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• For the first time in my life I tasted death, and death tasted bitter, for death is birth, is fear and dread of some terrible renewal.

  Hermann Hesse

  Firsts, Bitter, Birth

  Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse (1971). “Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse”

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