A State infinitely worse than that which the most inflamed Zealot, the most violent Republican or Enthusiast even pretended to dread before the Rebellion commenced.
Charles Inglis

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
Edith Wharton

Anyone who's a parent dreads that call in the middle of the night. I have four grown children and I still dread it.
Tony Dungy

As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.
Hans Selye

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.
Marcus Aurelius

Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
Toni Morrison

Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune.
Owen Glendower

Dread of night. Dread of not-night.
Franz Kafka

During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the hope of immortality, I am as weary of that as I am of gods and kings. For my own sake only I write this; and herein I differ from all other writers, past and to come.
Mika Waltari

Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be.
Benjamin Spock

He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.
William Gilmore Simms

His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught.
Edmund Waller

Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.
Dirk Benedict

I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.
Dennis Potter

I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.
Charles M. Schulz

I have always had a dread of becoming a passenger in life.
Princess Margaret

I requested the gentlemen to put on their hats, and the ladies their shawls, to avoid catching cold, and then had the windows widely opened. This proceeding caused some astonishment and alarm at first; for the Americans generally have a dread of cold air.
George Combe

I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print.
John Mortimer

I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it.
John Le Carre

If I know that I shall be as an angel, and more; if I shall behold all God has made; if he shall own me for his son and exalt me to honor in his presence, I shall not fear to die, nor shall I dread the grave where Christ once lay.
Matthew Simpson