Jean de la Bruyere Quotes About Dreads

Quotes about: Dreads

• Death happens but once, yet we feel it every moment of our lives; it is worse to dread it than to suffer it.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Death, Suffering, Moments

• Anything is a temptation to those who dread it.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Temptation, Dread

• We dread old age, which are not sure of being able to attain.
  [Fr., L'on craint la vieillesse, que l'on n'est pas sur de pouvoir atteindre.]

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Age, Able, Not Sure

• We hope to grow old and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and we flee from death.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Love Life, Age, Dread

  "Les Caractères", XI, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 12-17, 1922.

• There are certain people who so ardently and passionately desire a thing, that from dread of losing it they leave nothing undone to make them lose it.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  People, Desire, Losing

• The same common sense which makes an author write good things, makes him dread they are not good enough to deserve reading.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Reading, Writing, Common Sense

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