Quotes with dread

  • You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common sense attitude; that you could take it for granted that I was deluded.

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  • Edith Warton Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Edith Wharton Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
    Edith Wharton
    American Author (1862 - 1937)
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  • Hans Selye As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.
    Hans Selye
    Hungarian-Canadian endocrinologist and scientist (1907 - 1982)
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  • Toni Morrison Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Epictetus Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Marquis de Sade 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
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • William Gilmore Simms He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.
    William Gilmore Simms
    American poet, novelist and historian (1806 - 1870)
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  • George Bernard Shaw I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Charles M. Schultz I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.
    Charles M. Schultz
    American cartoonist (1922 - 2000)
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  • Arthur Ochs Sulzberger 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.
    Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
    American journalist
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  • Toni Morrison In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Georges Bernanos It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.
    Georges Bernanos
    French writer (1888 - 1948)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Alexander Pope Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored; dies before thy uncreating word: thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall; and universal darkness buries all.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Thomas Jefferson My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Edgar Sheffield Brightman No totalitarians, no wars, no fears, famines or perils of any kind can really break a man's spirit until he breaks it himself by surrendering. Tyranny has many dread powers, but not the power to rule the spirit.
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  • A. E. Housman Now hollow fires burn out to black,
    And lights are guttering low:
    Square your shoulders, lift your pack,
    And leave your friends and go.

    Oh never fear, man, nought's to dread,
    Look not to left nor right:
    In all the endless road you tread
    There's nothing but the night.
    A Shropshire Lad (1896)
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Frank Crane 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
    American actor
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  • Martin Farquhar Tupper Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.
    Martin Farquhar Tupper
    English writer and poet (1810 - 1889)
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