Dread Quotes

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.

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

The dread of criticism is the death of genius.

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.

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.

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

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

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.

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 have become that mother I used to dread.

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

As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.

I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Liberty means responsibility. That's why most men dread it.

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

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.

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

We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived.