Top 25 Dread Quotes of 77

In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.

In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.

Artist, Silent, Dread

God is down in front. He is in the tomorrows. It is tomorrow that fills men with dread. God is there already. All the tomorrows of our life have to pass Him before they can get to us.

F.B. Meyer

Men, Tomorrow, Dread

If there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am I doing.

Samuel Beckett

Able, Dread, Ifs

Samuel Beckett (2007). “Molloy”, p.183, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.

Samuel Johnson

Examination, Fraud, Dread

Lectures on the Elements of Political Economy, 1831.

I'd rather have a bullet inside of me than to be living in constant dread of one.

Benjamin Harrison

Bullets, Dread, Constant

We hope vaguely but dread precisely.

Paul Valery

Dread

Why do children dread mathematics? Because of the wrong approach. Because it is looked at as a subject.

Shakuntala Devi

Children, Mathematics, Dread

Suddenly Ka realized he was in love with İpek. And realizing that this love would determine the rest of his life, he was filled with dread.

Orhan Pamuk

Realizing, Dread, Filled

FaceBook post by Orhan Pamuk from Dec 28, 2012

If I am killed, I can die by once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again.

Abraham Lincoln

Dread, Constant, Dies

Abraham Lincoln Vol. II, Ch. 13

He that has his trust set upon God does not need to dread anything except the weakening or the paralyzing of that trust.

Alexander MacLaren

Doe, Needs, Dread

Alexander Maclaren (1905). “Triumphant Certainties: And Other Sermons”

We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul.

Epictetus

Soul, Use, Dread

Epictetus (1866). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.17

Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.

Emile M. Cioran

Fear, Inspire, Dread

Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

Nothing is more frightening than a fear you cannot name.

Cornelia Funke

Names, Inkheart, Dread

Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.107, Scholastic Inc.

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

Fall, Sin, Dread

Fear is secured by a dread of punishment.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Fear, Punishment, Dread

A burnt child dreads the fire.

Aleister Crowley

Children, Fire, Dread

Aleister Crowley “The Equinox Vol. 1. No. 5.”, Lulu.com

Cowardice, the dread of what will happen.

Epictetus

Cowardice, Dread, Happens

Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.151, Lulu.com