Dread Quotes - Page 8

• There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Suffering, Dignity, Worthy

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

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• I dread karaoke. I hate karaoke. I can't sing - that is why.

  Clive Owen

  Hate, Karaoke, I Can

  "Exclusive: Clive Owen Talks KILLER ELITE, CHILDREN OF MEN, HEMINGWAY & GELLHORN and CITIES at TIFF". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. September 20, 2011.

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• The ignorant ever shun and dread the gifted and enlightened.

  Francis Alexander Durivage

  Humor, Ignorant, Enlightened

  Francis Alexander Durivage (1856). “The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage: And Other Tales”, p.52

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• A cruel joke has been played on us. We are fated always to remember what we learned but never to recall the experiences that taught us. Who can remember being born? Yet, it is possible to speculate that anxiety has its roots in this experience, that dread of abandonment, fears of separation, intolerable loneliness go back to this moment. Who can remember being cared for as an infant? ... Who can remember being toilet-trained? ... Who can remember the attachment which developed to the parent of the opposite sex? ... We cannot remember but what we have forgotten lives on dynamically.

  Jo Coudert

  Sex, Loneliness, Roots

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• Commercial concerns have expanded from family business to corporate wealth which is self-perpetuating and which enlightened statesmen and economists now dread as the most potent oligarchy yet produced.

  Helen Keller

  Business, Self, Oligarchy

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• God is on the side of virtue; for whoever dreads punishment suffers it, and whoever deserves it, dreads it .

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Punishment, Suffering, Sides

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.181

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• Time, the cradle of hope, but the grave of ambition, is the stern corrector of fools, but the salutary counselor of the wise, bringing all they dread to the one, and all they desire to the other.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Wise, Time, Ambition

  Charles Caleb Colton (1849). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words: Address--to Those who Think”, p.292

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• Foul jealousy! that turnest love divine to joyless dread, and makest the loving heart with hateful thoughts to languish and to pine.

  Edmund Spenser

  Jealousy, Heart, Hateful

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• The whole world is put in motion by the wish for riches and the dread of poverty.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wish, Poverty, World

  Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.92

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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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• 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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• To dread no eye and to suspect no tongue is the great prerogative of innocence--an exemption granted only to invariable virtue.

  Samuel Johnson

  Eye, Tongue, Innocence

  Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.78

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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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• The art of decoration requires the most sophisticated and self-indulgent skills. Its aim has always been to sate the senses as gloriously as possible. ... ornament is not only a source of sensuous pleasure; it supplies a necessary kind of magic to people and places that lack it. More than just a dread of empty spaces has led to the urge to decorate; it is the fear of empty selves.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Art, Self, Skills

  Ada Louise Huxtable (1986). “ARCHITECTURE, ANYONE?”, Random House

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• I'd get up in the morning, get ready to go to school, and I would dread it. I hated it. My mother would have the radio on. And the guy on the radio sounded like he was having so much fun. And I knew, when his program was over, he wasn't going to go to school.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Mother, Morning, Fun

  "Rush Limbaugh Gives Sean a Rare Interview". "Hannity & Colmes" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. October 18, 2005.

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• Our society is turning toward more and more needless consumption. It is a vicious circle that I compare to cancer . . . . Should we eliminate suffering, diseases? The idea is beautiful, but perhaps not a benefit for the long term. We should not allow our dread of diseases to endanger the future of our species. . . . In order to stabilize world population, we need to eliminate 350,000 people a day. It is a horrible thing to say, but it's just as bad not to say it.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Beautiful, Cancer, Order

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• ... love dreads being isolated, being left to speak in a void -- at the beginning it would often rather listen than speak.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Void, Speak, Isolated

  Elizabeth Bowen (2015). “The Heat Of The Day”, p.55, Random House

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• The best I could say about third grade was that it was a more or less continuous state of dread.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Education, States, Third Grade

  Sonia Sotomayor (2013). “My Beloved World”, p.29, Vintage

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• Heed the spark or you may dread the fire.

  Miles Franklin

  Fire, May, Sparks

  Miles Franklin (2014). “Some Everyday Folk and Dawn”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• Lives there the man with soul so dead as to disown the wish to merit the people's applause, and having uttered words worthy to be kept in cedar oil to latest times, to leave behind him rhymes that dread neither herrings nor frankincense.

  Aulus Persius Flaccus

  Men, Oil, People

  "The satires of Persius". Book by Persius, 1799.

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• Free thought means fearless thought. It is not deterred by legal penalties, nor by spiritual consequences. Dissent from the Bible does not alarm the true investigator, who takes truth for authority not authority for truth. The thinker who is really free, is independent; he is under no dread; he yields to no menace; he is not dismayed by law, nor custom, nor pulpits, nor society-whose opinion appals so many. He who has the manly passion of free thought, has no fear of anything, save the fear of error.

  George Holyoake

  Spiritual, Passion, Mean

  George Jacob Holyoake (1896). “English Secularism: A Confession of Belief”, p.18, Library of Alexandria

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• And if sun comes / How shall we greet him? / Shall we not dread him, / Shall we not fear him / After so lengthy a / Session with shade?

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Happiness, Fear, Sun

  Gwendolyn Brooks (1971). “The world of Gwendolyn Brooks”, Harpercollins

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• A woman scorn'd is pitiless as fate,
  For then the dread of shame adds stings to hate.

  William Gifford

  Hate, Fate, Add

  Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, William Gifford (1860). “The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia and Lucilius”, p.120

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• Most of us feel on some level like race horses chomping at the bit, pressing at the gate, hoping and praying for someone to open the door and let us run out. We feel so much pent up energy, so much locked up talent. We know in our hearts that we were born to do great things, and we have a deep-seated dread of wasting our lives. But the only person who can free us is ourselves. Most of us know that. We realize that the locked door is our own fear.

  Marianne Williamson

  Running, Horse, Heart

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