Dread Quotes - Page 9

• I cannot believe in the immortality of the soul. No, all this talk of an existence for us, as individuals, beyond the grave is wrong. It is born of our tenacity of life - our desire to go on living - our dread of coming to an end.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Atheist, Believe, Soul

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• Now hollow fires burn out to black,
  And lights are fluttering low:
  Square your shoulders, lift your pack
  And leave your friends and go.
  O never fear, lads, naught's to dread,
  Look not to left nor right:
  In all the endless road you tread
  There's nothing but the night.

  Alexander Pope

  Fear, Night, Fire

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• Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a dread of the company has repressed. It only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

  Samuel Johnson

  Drinking, Food, Wine

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1866). “The Life of Samuel Johnson”, p.220

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• When your thoughts, words, and deeds form a seamless fabric, you streamline your efforts and thus eliminate worry and dread.

  Epictetus

  Motivational, Integrity, Worry

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• Big occasions and races which have been eagerly anticipated almost to the point of dread, are where great deeds can be accomplished.

  Jack Lovelock

  Motivational, Running, Race

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• As Benjamin Franklin said, 'Those things that hurt, instruct.' It is for this reason that wise people learn not to dread but actually to welcome problems and actually to welcome the pain of problems.

  M. Scott Peck

  Wise, Spiritual, Hurt

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• He makes His ministers a flame of fire. Am I ignitible? God deliver me from the dread asbestos of 'other things.' Saturate me with the oil of the Spirit that I may be aflame. But flame is transient, often short lived. Canst thou bear this, my soul - short life? ... Make me thy fuel, Flame of God.

  Jim Elliot

  Short Life, Godly, Fire

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• When you resolve to become pious, the devil in your nature cries out at you, "Tread not those paths, O confused one; distress and poverty will overcome you. You will be despised, let down by friends, you will regret it." Dread of the devil has bound their souls; the cries of the devil are the drover of the damned; the call of the Lord is a guardian of the saints.

  Rumi

  Wisdom, Regret, Confused

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• Why exactly are we so frightened of death that we avoid looking at it altogether? Somewhere, deep down, we know we cannot avoid facing death forever. We know, in Milarepa's words: "This thing called 'corpse' we dread so much is living with us here and now."

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Death, Forever, Dying

  Sogyal Rinpoche (2009). “The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying: The Spiritual Classic & International Bestseller: Revised and Updated Edition”, p.25, Harper Collins

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• I am not myself apt to be alarmed at innovations recommended by reason. That dread belongs to those whose interests or prejudices shrink from the advance of truth and science.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Innovation, Prejudice, Politics

  Thomas Jefferson (2011). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 7: 28 November 1813 to 30 September 1814”, p.210, Princeton University Press

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• I am inclined to think that as I grow older I will come to be infatuated with the art of revision, and there may come a time when I will dread giving up a novel at all.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Art, Giving Up, Writing

  Joyce Carol Oates, Lee Milazzo (1989). “Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates”, p.66, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• A careless way of sauntering across the earth and breaking open its treasures, a terrible dependency on sucking out the world's best juices for ourselves-these may also be our enemies. The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Earth Day, Enemy, Treasure

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “Small Wonder”, p.13, Faber & Faber

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• Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others. Sometimes it does. But the danger is, that while a man grows better pleased with himself, he may be growing less pleasing to others. Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a dread of the company has presented.

  James Boswell

  Wine, Men, Giving

  James Boswell (2008). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: Easyread Edition”, p.181, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• When we were the political slaves of King George, and wanted to be free, we called the maxim that "all men are created equal" a self evident truth; but now when we have grown fat, and have lost all dread of being slaves ourselves, we have become so greedy to be masters that we call the same maxim "a self evident lie" The fourth of July has not quite dwindled away; it is still a great day-for burning fire-crackers!!!

  Abraham Lincoln

  Kings, Lying, Men

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45”, p.359, Library of America

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• The greatest dread of ordinary man is death, with its rude imposition interrupting fortuitous plans and fondest attachments with an unknown and unwelcome change. The yogi is a conqueror of the grief associated with death. By control of mind and life force and the development of wisdom, he makes friends with the change of consciousness called death-he becomes familiar with the state of inner calmness and aloofness from identification with the mortal body.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Death, Grief, Men

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• You can t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty. And least of all can you condemn an artist pursuing, however humbly and imperfectly, a creative aim. In that interior world where his thought and his emotions go seeking for the experience of imagined adventures, there are no policemen, no law, no pressure of circumstance or dread of opinion to keep him within bounds. Who then is going to say Nay to his temptations if not his conscience?

  Joseph Conrad

  Integrity, Adventure, Men

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Lord Jim (Unabridged Deluxe Edition): A Classic Novel of Guilt and Atonement From the Renowned Author of Heart of Darkness, Nostromo, The Secret Agent & Under Western Eyes (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)”, p.302, e-artnow

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• They are, as it were, train-bearers in the pageant of life, and hold a glass up to humanity, frailer than itself. We see ourselves at second-hand in them: they show us all that we are, all that we wish to be, and all that we dread to be. What brings the resemblance nearer is, that, as they imitate us, we, in our turn, imitate them. There is no class of society whom so many persons regard with affection as actors.

  William Hazlitt

  Life, Glasses, Hands

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• There is nothing a Man of good Sense dreads so much in a Wife, as her having more Sense than himself.

  Henry Fielding

  Men, Common Sense, Wife

  "Don Quixote in England: A comedy. As it is acted at the New Theatre in the Hay-Market. By Henry Fielding, Esq".

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• You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common sense attitude; that you could take it for granted that I was deluded.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Funny, Attitude, Common Sense

  "Personal Recollections" by Rush Rhees, Ch. 6, 1981.

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• I became entirely given over to extreme dread. The fear was so powerful that it seemed to make my personality completely evaporate... 'Whitley' ceased to exist. What was left was a body and a state of raw fear so great that it swept about me like a thick, suffocating curtain, turning paralysis into a condition that seemed close to death...I died and a wild animal appeared in my place.

  Whitley Strieber

  Powerful, Animal, Personality

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• One of my favorite vampire movies is 'Nosferatu,' which has a palpable sense of dread that's a pre-war dread.

  Anton Yelchin

  War, Vampire, Nosferatu

  "Anton Yelchin, Christopher Mintz-Plasse and Imogen Poots Interview FRIGHT NIGHT". Press day, collider.com. August 18, 2011.

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• I dread the inevitable acceleration of American world domination which will be the result of it all...Europe will no longer be Europe.

  Aldous Huxley

  Europe, World, Results

  "Aldous Huxley: An English Intellectual". Book by Nicholas Murray, www.theguardian.com.

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• The generation of consumers who swallow this pessimistic sentiment can't see past the product to its debased morality. Instead, their excitement about The Dark Knight's dread (that teenage thrall with subversion) inspires their fealty to product.

  Armond White

  Teenage, Dark, Past

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• Please choose the way of peace.. In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, nor never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause.

  Mother Teresa

  Pain, War, Loss

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• Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no more harm in destroying this kind of matter than in evacuating another, by medicines, when we feel the need.

  Marquis de Sade

  Medicine, Mistress, Needs

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