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Dread of night. Dread of not-night. -- Franz Kafka
As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation. -- Hans Selye
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. -- George Bernard Shaw
I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time. -- Charles M. Schulz
Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it. -- Marcus Aurelius
Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are. -- Toni Morrison
Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh. -- Martin Farquhar Tupper
Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before. -- Edith Wharton
Dread, which is closely related to fear, steals the ability to enjoy ordinary life and makes people anxious about the future. It keeps them from looking forward to the next day, the next month, or the next decade. -- Joyce Meyer
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
Dread is a sympathetic antipathy and an antipathetic sympathy.... -- Soren Kierkegaard
Dread more the blunderer's friendship than the calumniator's enmity. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
Jah would never give the power to a baldhead; run come crucify the Dread. -- Bob Marley
Dread of disaster makes everybody act in the very way that increases the disaster. -- Bertrand Russell
Nor dread nor hope attendA dying animal;A man awaits his endDreading and hoping all. -- W.B. Yeats
Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life. -- Charlotte Bronte
Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune. -- Owain Glyndwr
Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune. -- Owain Glyndwr
Dread not events unknown, and be not downhearted, for the fountain of the water of life is involved in obscurity. -- Bill Vaughan
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
Dread of disaster makes everybody act in the very way that increases the disaster. Psychologically the situation is analogous to that of people trampled to death when there is a panic in a theatre caused by a cry of `Fire!'. -- Bertrand Russell
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
Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals. -- Fulton J. Sheen
The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married. -- Cyril Connolly
The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married. -- Cyril Connolly
Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown. -- Emile M. Cioran
Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show. -- Vivien Leigh
I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself. -- Dennis Potter
Nor dread nor hope attendA dying animal;A man awaits his endDreading and hoping all. -- W.B. Yeats
The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good. -- John Locke
It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man. -- Georges Bernanos
My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me. -- Thomas Jefferson
He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius. -- William Gilmore Simms
Anyone who's a parent dreads that call in the middle of the night. I have four grown children and I still dread it. -- Tony Dungy
I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol. -- Alexandre Dumas
A State infinitely worse than that which the most inflamed Zealot, the most violent Republican or Enthusiast even pretended to dread before the Rebellion commenced. -- Charles Inglis
Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread. -- Dirk Benedict
Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fiber. -- Frank Crane
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. -- June Jordan
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
When we love, we are courageous; and courage has nothing to do with being fearless, it's about being willing to experience fear, even dread, to do what we must, without guarantee of outcome. -- Vanna Bonta
Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be. -- Benjamin Spock
I have covered wars, before the epidemic began and since. They are all ugly and painful and unjust, but for me, nothing has matched the dread I felt while walking through the Castro, the Village, or Dupont Circle at the height of the AIDS epidemic. -- Michael Specter
The essential truth is that sometimes you're worried that they'll find out it's a fluke, that you don't really have it. You've lost the muse or - the worst dread - you never had it at all. I went through all that madness early on. -- Robin Williams
Dickinson is my hero because she was a joker, because she would never explain, because as a poet she confronted pain, dread and death, and because she was capable of speaking of those matters with both levity and seriousness. She's my hero because she was a metaphysical adventurer. -- Helen Oyeyemi
I know a lot of people dread going to work every morning, but my work is playing pretend and doing stunts and screaming. It's a lot of fun and I get to play dress up. Every day is exciting and different and new and cool. I couldn't be more grateful. -- Nina Dobrev
I dread handshakes. I've got some problems with my hands, and everywhere I go, people want to impress me with their grip. To make it worse, now women are coming up with that firm shake. So I'll say, 'Gimme five!' If a boy wants a handshake, I'll just give him a hug. -- George Foreman
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
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
When you do a play, you have the kind of nightly feeling of accomplishment. But you also have the daily dread of the doing it every night. And because you're doing the whole thing every day, it's like climbing up the mountain every single night. With a movie it's like climbing the mountain very slowly, over months of filming. -- Jesse Eisenberg
When fear makes your choices for you, no security measures on earth will keep the things you dread from finding you. But if you can avoid avoidance - if you can choose to embrace experiences out of passion, enthusiasm, and a readiness to feel whatever arises - then nothing, nothing in all this dangerous world, can keep you from being safe. -- Martha Beck
I liked school, but I used to dread those moments when the teacher would call me up to give an oral report. I forced myself to deal with it and not dwell on the class in front of me - to keep a straight face, give the report and concentrate on getting it right. That's normally how I perform. That's how I am. -- Steven Wright
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. -- Anne Lamott
Innocence has nothing to dread. -- Jean Racine
Travelling fills me with dread. -- Tom Hodgkinson
Must one dread what others dread? -- Laozi
We hope vaguely but dread precisely. -- Paul Valery
All dread those things they don't understand ... -- Fannie Ellsworth Newberry
Cowardice, the dread of what will happen. -- Epictetus
Fear is secured by a dread of punishment. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
There is no delight the equal of dread -- Clive Barker
Dreams surround our desires with ugliness and dread. -- Mason Cooley
Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it -- Samuel Johnson
I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread. -- Robert Anton Wilson
The advance of science spares us from irrational dread. -- Martin Rees
Rich people read their bills. Poor people dread theirs. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The changes we dread most may contain our salvation. -- Barbara Kingsolver
Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it. -- Samuel Johnson
The dread of futility has been my life-long plague. -- Maya Angelou
I have become that mother I used to dread. -- Bridget Moynahan
Anything is a temptation to those who dread it. -- Jean de la Bruyere
The dread of criticism is the death of genius. -- William Gilmore Simms
Heed the spark or you may dread the fire ... -- Miles Franklin
Alcoholism is a dread, an awful, and fatal disease. -- Malachy McCourt
You dread that there will be real problems during filming. -- Ralph Fiennes
No true love there can be without Its dread penalty--jealousy. -- Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
no hour arrives so soon as the one we dread. -- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
I dread our own mistakes more than the enemy's intentions. -- Thucydides
The ignorant ever shun and dread the gifted and enlightened. -- Francis Alexander Durivage
Valentine's Day is the day all singletons like me dread -- Michelle McManus
The blessings of the devil is the beginning of dread. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
I know little of women. But I've heard dread tales. -- Harold Pinter
Humans without humanity, A world of dread and fear for eternity. -- Mouloud Benzadi
In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. -- Toni Morrison
When people do not dread authorities, then a greater dread descends. -- Laozi
Sometimes I dread loneliness more than bores. Other times, the reverse. -- Mason Cooley
The Bibbidi Bobbidi Beautiful boutique, the name filled me with dread. -- Jessica Fortunato
Do that which you dread and cherish those victories with pride. -- Og Mandino
A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. -- William Hazlitt
He is much to be dreaded who stands in dread of poverty. -- Publilius Syrus
I mean that I value vision, and dread being struck stone blind. -- Charlotte Bronte
I have always had a dread of becoming a passenger in life. -- Margrethe II of Denmark
I have always had a dread of becoming a passenger in life. -- Margrethe II of Denmark
The world dread nothing so much as being convinced of their errors. -- William Hazlitt
The hope of all who suffer, The dread of all who wrong. -- John Greenleaf Whittier
Present sufferings seem far greater to men than those they merely dread. -- Livy
And death? I don't fear death. I dread the absence of it. -- Robert Charles Wilson
I dread karaoke. I hate karaoke. I can't sing - that is why. -- Clive Owen
A religious ought to dread more being afraid of poverty than experiencing it. -- Ignatius of Loyola
Preachers dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight. -- Thomas Jefferson
We dread life's termination as the close, not of enjoyment, but of hope. -- William Hazlitt
The Administration of the United States is such dread I almost feel paralyzed. -- Toni Morrison
The greater our dread of crosses, the more necessary they are for us. -- Francois Fenelon
This was what happiness felt like - this wondrous, miraculous alternative to dread. -- Meg Rosoff
O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it? -- James Joyce
I dread the idea of a paparazzi snapping me while I'm out running. -- Paloma Faith
It's the end game that people dread and that's what I'm scared of -- Terry Pratchett
Athenodorus says hydrophobia, or water-dread, was first discovered in the time of Asclepiades. -- Plutarch
...crushed between the fears of going forward and the dread of going back. -- Jim Crace
The highest and most lofty trees have the most reason to dread the thunder. -- Charles Rollin
Hark! o'er the dread abyss the sea-bird screams-- The rocks resound--again the lightning gleams! -- John Ramsay
Why live life from dream to dream? And dread the day when dreaming ends. -- Baz Luhrmann
I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results. -- Edgar Allan Poe
What turns a work crisis into a life crisis is the infusion of dread. -- Lynda Obst
Upon his royal face there is no note how dread an army hath enrounded him. -- William Shakespeare
I dread specialists in power because they are specialists speaking outside of their special subject. -- C. S. Lewis
Love of life is born of the awareness of death, of the dread of it. -- Ian Fleming
In addition to the dread of Indians, Texas held out no inducements for Mexican emigrants. -- William H. Wharton
The rhythm of fraught footsteps and fervent heartbeat orchestrated a symphony of anticipation and dread. -- Brian A. McBride
If you are wise, you will dread a prosperity which only loads you with more. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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