Quotes with dread

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  • Susan Sontag The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. The least energizing emotion to write out of is admiration. It is very difficult to write out of because the basic feeling that goes with admiration is a passive contemplative mood.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • William Gilmore Simms The dread of criticism is the death of genius.
    William Gilmore Simms
    American poet, novelist and historian (1806 - 1870)
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  • Cyril Connolly The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Blaise Pascal The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • John Howe What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.
    John Howe
    Canadian-French illustrator
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  • Samuel Johnson Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a dread of the company has repressed. It only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Jean Paul Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Beatrice Webb Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell.
    Beatrice Webb
    English sociologist and economist (1858 - 1943)
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein 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.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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