Dread Quotes

• The day the process of acting becomes something that I dread is the end. Obviously, why would you do something that you hate? I won't do that.

  

  Shailene Woodley
  • End
  • Process
  • Dread

• 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 the state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Success
  • Dread

• I Sing what was lost and dread what was won, / I walk in a battle fought over again.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Lost
  • Winning
  • Battle

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

  

  Malachy McCourt
  • Disease
  • Dread
  • Alcoholism

• Some people love Sundays; I don't, particularly. I used to rather dread them when I was younger. I was brought up on Sunday roasts, which I've always loathed. If I didn't finish my meat, I had to sit with it for most of the afternoon. No wonder I'm a vegetarian now.

  

  Celia Imrie
  • People
  • Wonder
  • Sunday

• The highest and most lofty trees have the most reason to dread the thunder.

  

  Charles Rollin
  • Reason
  • Tree
  • Dread

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

  

  Vivien Leigh
  • Fear
  • Sometimes
  • Dread

• Dread is a sympathetic antipathy and an antipathetic sympathy.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Sympathy
  • Dread
  • Antipathy

• 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
  • Freedom
  • Dread
  • Debility

• If I ever married, I know I would dread the daily sound of the key in the door and the casual expectancy of 'Hello! I'm home!

  

  Celia Imrie
  • Home
  • Married
  • Casual

• I'm not an abuser. It takes me a long time to assimilate each experience. And I never have lost my respect for it. I mean I really feel dread. It is one of the emotions I always feel as I approach it, because I have no faith that my sails won't be ripped this time.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Long
  • Mean
  • Feels

• I think writer's block is simply the dread that you are going to write something horrible. But as a writer, I believe that if you sit down at the keys long enough, sooner or later something will come out.

  

  Roy Blount, Jr.
  • Believe
  • Writing
  • Enough

• Writing has often been accompanied by terror, silences, and then wild bursts of private laughter that suddenly make all the dread seem worthwhile.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Writing
  • Silence
  • Laughter

• 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?

  

  Thomas Hood
  • Art
  • Mother
  • Moon

• What am I always going to do? I'm going to go home and freak out.I'm going to sit with my family and try not to talk about myself and what's wrong. Im going to try and eat. Then I'm going to try and sleep. I dread it. I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?

  

  Ned Vizzini
  • Family
  • Home
  • Sleep

• There is a fear of the Lord which is the beginning of wisdom, which is founded in love. There is also a slavish fear, which is a mere dread of evil, and is purely selfish.

  

  Charles Grandison Finney
  • Evil
  • Lord
  • Selfish

• Writing on assignment, with lots of money handed to you before you even began, got very scary for me. My dread of not being perfect, something I got from a childhood surrounded by powerful, successful people, began to infect everything I wrote.

  

  Stewart Stern
  • Writing
  • Money
  • Dread

• Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.

  

  Thomas Hardy
  • Teach
  • Grave
  • Dread

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