Quotessence
Home / Topics / Dread Quotes

Dread Quotes

Browse 721 quotes about Dread.

Related topics

MenFearIfsPeopleKnowsMayThinkingWayWorldFeelsFirstsGivingMindWellsStatesWritingDesireHumansKindChildrenHeartWarEndsReasonSoulFacesShouldStillsFeelingsHappensLittlesLongMeanMomentsDiesHas BeensLastsNeedsHandsLeftSufferingAnxietyApproachArtCertainDangerDoeFireHardLife IsLooksNightPastShowsSilenceTerrorTurnsBelieveDreamEnemyFallLordMovingObjectsPersonsRealTerribleToo MuchWantActionBearsBehindsBeliefCausesDealsDeathDiedFormGravesHeavenHorrorLawLifeLostMightPainPunishmentSometimesTryingUsedWonderAgeAnticipationApprehensionBigsBreakDangerousDeedsDifferentEarthmore

Dread Quotes

“Mother of light! how fairly dost thou go Over those hoary crests, divinely led! Art thou that huntress of the silver bow Fabled of old? Or rather dost thou tread Those cloudy summits thence to gaze below, Like the wild chamois from her Alpine snow, Where hunters never climbed--secure from dread?”

ArtLightMotherMoonSnowSecureSilverBowsDreadHuntersSummitCloudyHuntressAlpine
Book:Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood (Illustrated)
Create image

“Fate steals along with silent tread, Found oftenest in what least we dread; Frowns in the storm with angry brow, But in the sunshine strikes the blow.”

FoundFateAngrySilentBlowStormStrikesStealingSunshineDreadBrows
Book:The Works of Cowper and Thompson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country. With a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson
Create image

“Truly, there are terrible primal arcana of earth which had better be left unknown and unevoked; dread secrets which have nothing to do with man, and which man may learn only in exchange for peace and sanity; cryptic truths which make the knower evermore an alien among his kind, and cause him to walk alone on earth.”

MenKindMayEarthLeftCausesWalksSecretTerribleAliensSanityDreadPrimalEvermoreCryptic
Book:H.P. Lovecraft: The Ultimate Collection (160 Works Including Early Writings, Fiction, Collaborations, Poetry, Essays & Bonus Audiobook Links)
Create image

“I think when people say they dread going into work on Monday morning, it's because they know they are leaving a piece of themselves at home. Why not see what happens when you challenge your employees to bring all of their talents to their job and reward them not for doing it just like everyone else, but for pushing the envelope, being adventurous, creative, and open-minded, and trying new things?”

PeopleThinkingKnowsTryingHomeHappensMotivationalJobsChallengesMorningCreativePiecesTalentRewardsLeavingEmployeePushingWhy NotDreadNew ThingsMondayAdventurousOpen MindedEnvelopesMonday MorningTrying New ThingsPushing The Envelope
Book:Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose
Create image

“We have on the one hand a desperate need; hunger, sickness, and the dread of war. We have, on the other, the conception of something that might meet it: omnicompetent global technocracy. Are not these the ideal opportunity for enslavement? This is how it has entered before; a desperate need (real or apparent) in the one party, a power (real or apparent) to relieve it, in the other.”

NeedsWarRealHandsMightOpportunityPartyIdealsHungerDesperateSicknessConceptionDreadEnslavement
Author:C. S. Lewis
Create image

“In the various states of society, armies are recruited from very different motives. Barbarians are urged by the love of war; the citizens of a free republic may be prompted by a principle of duty; the subjects, or at least the nobles, of a monarchy, are animated by a sentiment of honor; but the timid and luxurious inhabitants of a declining empire must be allured into the service by the hopes of profit, or compelled by the dread of punishment.”

MayDifferentWarStatesPrinciplesSubjectsMilitaryDutyCitizensHonorArmyProfitVariousPunishmentMotiveEmpiresSentimentsRepublicDreadCompelledMonarchyAnimatedBarbariansLuxurious
Book:EDWARD GIBBON Premium Collection: Historiographical Works, Memoirs & Letters: Including
Create image

“I go to bed, and I wait for sleep as a man might wait for the executioner. I wait for its coming with dread, and my heart beats and my legs tremble, while my whole body shivers beneath the warmth of the bedclothes, until the moment when I suddenly fall asleep, as a man throws himself into a pool of stagnant water in order to drown. I do not feel this perfidious sleep coming over me as I used to, but a sleep which is close to me and watching me, which is going to seize me by the head, to close my eyes and annihilate me.”

MenFeelsHeartWholeMomentsBodyMightEyeUsedOrderFallWaitingWaterSleepMy HeartBedBeatsLegsWarmthPoolDreadStagnantShiverHeart BeatExecutionersStagnant Water
Book:13 Short Scary Stories: Masterpieces of the greatest writers
Create image

“What misery to live in this world! We are like men whose enemies are at the door, who must not lay aside their arms, even while sleeping or eating, and are always in dread lest the foe should enter the fortress by some breach in the walls. O my Lord and my all! How canst thou wish us to prize such a wretched existence?”

MenWorldLifeShouldWishSleepExistenceLordEnemyDoorsThis WorldWallArmsEatingLaysMiseryPrizeDreadFoeWretchedBreachFortresses
Book:The Interior Castle, or the Mansions
Create image

“It's about panic. It's about fear. It's about instilling the American populace with terror, dread, and apprehension about the future. It's all about making you think that your way of life is "destroying the world." America is the root of all evil in the world, according to the environmentalist wackos. You, the citizens of the United States, are ruining everything.”

ThinkingWorldWayStatesAmericaLife IsEvilUnitedUnited StatesCitizensRootsTerrorDestroyingDreadPanicApprehensionEnvironmentalistRuining Everything
Book:See, I Told You So
Create image

“When our life is a continuous trial, the moments of respite seem only to substitute the heaviness of dread for the heaviness of actual suffering; the curtain of cloud seems parted an instant only that we may measure all its horror as it hangs low, black, and imminent, in contrast with the transient brightness; the waterdrops that visit the parched lips in the desert bear with them only the keen imagination of thirst.”

LifeMayMomentsSeemsLife IsSufferingBlackImaginationOur LivesBearsHorrorLowsLipsCloudsTrialsDesertInstantSubstitutesContrastDreadThirstCurtainsBrightnessTransientHeavinessRespite
Book:Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life
Create image

“When thou attended gloriously from heaven , Shalt in the sky appear, and from thee send Thy summoning archangels to proclaim Thy dread tribunal.”

HeavenSkyJudgmentTheeDreadArchangelTribunalsSummoning
Book:The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost: Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... with Notes Grammatical, Geographical, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory. To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ...
Create image