Top 688 Dread Quotes & Sayings

I have become that mother I used to dread.

I dread going to court.

Observe how many people evade, rationalize and drive their minds into a state of blind stupor, in dread of discovering that those they deal with- their "loved ones" or friends or business associates or political rulers- are not merely mistaken, but evil. Observe that this dread leads them to sanction, to help and to spread the very evil whose existence they fear to acknowledge.

All dread those things they don't understand.

Is he a dread genetic determinist, or a dread environmental determinist? He is neither, of course, for both these species of bogeyman are as mythical as werewolves. By increasing the information we have about the various causes of the constraints that limit our current opportunities, he has increased our powers to avoid what we want to avoid, prevent what we want to prevent. Knowledge of the roles of our genes, and the genes of the other species around us, is not the enemy of human freedom, but one of its best friends.

The dread was built into the 2016 election - a little spoonful of dread.

Anything is a temptation to those who dread it.

It's hard for me, a Jew, to stay in the moment. Without the past, where is the guilt? And without the future, where is the dread? And without guilt and dread, who am I?

Do that which you dread and cherish those victories with pride.

Alcoholism is a dread, an awful, and fatal disease.

He is much to be dreaded who stands in dread of poverty.

I do think that dread is about a certain kind of expectation. And the fact that a picture can never resolve itself the way a movie can - maybe that's a specific kind of dread that becomes associated with a picture.

Dread is a sympathetic antipathy and an antipathetic sympathy.

I have always had a dread of becoming a passenger in life.

The advance of science spares us from irrational dread.

The [Great] Actor is able to approach in himself a cosmic dread as large as life. He is able to go from his dread to a joy so sweet that it is without limit. Only then will the actor have direct access to the life that moves in him, which is as free as his breathing. And like his breathing, he doesn't cause it to happen. He doesn't contain it, and it doesn't contain him.

As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.

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

This was what happiness felt like - this wondrous, miraculous alternative to dread.

The three most effective incentives to human action may be ... classified as creed, greed and dread. ... In examining the scientist it is perhaps worth while to examine how far he is moved by these three incentives. I think that, rather peculiarly and rather exceptionally, he is very little moved by dread. ... He is in fact essentially a person who has been taught he must be fearless in his dealing with facts.

The dread of criticism is the death of genius.

Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.

By sort of combining the research of a lot of smart people, I came up with an equation for dread [dread=uncontrollability+unfamiliarity+imaginability+suffering+scale of destruction+unfairness]. The dread equation is a simplification, but it's a way to explain why we fear something so much when it is so unlikely. Part of it is the lack of control. That's why we're more scared of plane crashes than car crashes even though we know rationally which is more dangerous.

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.

Must one dread what others dread?

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

The hope of all who suffer, The dread of all who wrong.

Some allow themselves to be overcome by panic, and others charge because they dare not remain at their posts. Some may be found whose courage is strengthened by small perils that prepare them to face greater dangers. Some are daring when facing swords but dread facing bullets; others dread bullets little but fear facing swords a lot.

Among precautions against ambition, it may not be amiss to take precautions against our own. I must fairly say, I dread our own power and our own ambition: I dread our being too much dreaded.

O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?

I dread our own power, and our own ambition; I dread our being too much dreaded... We may say that we shall not abuse this astonishing, and hitherto unheard-of-power. But every other nation will think we shall abuse it. It is impossible but that, sooner or later, this state of things must produce a combination against us which may end in our ruin.

Innocence has nothing to dread.

You dread that there will be real problems during filming.

We hope vaguely but dread precisely.

There is no delight the equal of dread

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

Fear is secured by a dread of punishment.

Heed the spark or you may dread the fire.

Dreams surround our desires with ugliness and dread.

I never dread going back to Congress.

I wish I don't tan. I dread the thought of shooting on the beach.

The Administration of the United States is such dread I almost feel paralyzed.

No true love there can be without Its dread penalty--jealousy.

When people do not dread authorities, then a greater dread descends.

Love and Dread are brethren, and they are rooted in us by the Goodness of our Maker, and they shall never be taken from us without end. We have of nature to love and we have of grace to love: and we have of nature to dread and we have of grace to dread.

Time is my enemy. Time will catch up with me vocally. And I dread that. I dread to think about life without singing.

no hour arrives so soon as the one we dread.

I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.

The dread of futility has been my life-long plague.

The evil genius of terrorism is that that maximizes unfamiliarity, imaginability, suffering, scale of destruction, unfairness. It's really important to understand why terrorism is so frightening because it is a psychological war and until you understand it and try to reduce the dread, until then you become like a force multiplier for the terrorists inadvertently because you'll tend to overreact to terrorist attacks because the dread factor is so high.

The ignorant ever shun and dread the gifted and enlightened.

It's the end game that people dread and that's what I'm scared of

Travelling fills me with dread.

Cowardice, the dread of what will happen.

Love of life is born of the awareness of death, of the dread of it.

Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.

I'm a writer in the world. I translate the confusion that I might feel, the dread that I know I feel, moving towards some other place, moving away from puny language, from all that dread into some other kind of language.

I know little of women. But I've heard dread tales.

Dread of night. Dread of not-night.

A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death.