Dread Quotes

The grave, dread thing! Men shiver when thou'rt named: Nature appalled, Shakes off her wonted firmness.

I mean, the idea of losing a parent is really inconceivable. I think there's just an undertone of dread about the subject, so people don't talk about it and don't prepare for it.

I play Father Francis in 'The Exorcist Prequel.' It's fantastic. We are shooting in Morrocco and Rome. Paul Schrader is directing; Stellan Skarsgard plays the younger Max Von Sydow character. It's just a fantastic script. It's a very eerie, very scary script. It encomposes a growing dread that I think is really appropriate for the film.

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

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.

As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.

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

You know too well the forces which compose their army to dread their superior numbers.

Bananas are great, as I believe them to be the only known cure for existential dread. Also, Mother Teresa said that in India, a woman dying in the street will share her banana with anyone who needs it, whereas in America, people amass and hoard as many bananas as they can to sell for an exorbitant profit. So half of them go bad, anyway.

I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.

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.

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.

The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.

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

What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

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

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.

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.

I have become that mother I used to dread.

Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.

I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread.

Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed.

Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.

He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.

I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it.

You dread that there will be real problems during filming.

Anyone who's a parent dreads that call in the middle of the night. I have four grown children and I still dread it.

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

Dread of night. Dread of not-night.