Dread Quotes - Page 26

• Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.

  Samuel Johnson

  Examination, Fraud, Invites

  Lectures on the Elements of Political Economy, 1831.

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• Lord Jesu, I ask Thee, give unto me movement in Thy love withouten measure; desire withouten limit; longing withouten order; burning without discretion. Truly the better the love of Thee is, the greedier it is; for neither by reason is it restrained, nor by dread distressed, nor by doom tempted.

  Richard Rolle

  Love, Order, Giving

  "The Fire of Love".

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• The devil's aversion to holy water is a light matter compared with a despots dread of a newspaper that laughs.

  Mark Twain

  Light, Water, Laughing

  Mark Twain, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.97, Courier Corporation

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• My childhood was full of deep sorrows - colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a Deity in the sky who was angry when I ate too much plumcake.

  George Eliot

  Sky, Childhood, Sorrow

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• He who knows what it is to enjoy God will dread His loss; he who has seen His face will fear to see His back.

  Richard Alleine

  God, Loss, Faces

  Richard Alleine (1836). “Heaven opened; or, A brief and plain discovery of the riches of God's covenant of grace”, p.194

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

  Charles Rollin

  Greatness, Tree, Reason

  Charles Rollin (1851). “The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Grecians, and Macedonians”, p.285

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• Scandal is the sport of its authors, the dread of fools, and the contempt of the wise.

  William Benton Clulow

  Sports, Wise, Scandal

  William Benton Clulow (1843). “Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion”, p.137

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• Every politician, every member of the clerical profession, ought to incur the reasonable suspicion of being an interested supporter of false doctrines, who becomes angry at opposition, and endeavors to cast an odium on free inquiry. Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.

  Thomas Cooper

  Truth, Religion, Doctrine

  Thomas Cooper (1829). “Lectures on the Elements of Political Economy ...”, p.375

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• And death? I don't fear death. I dread the absence of it.

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Absence, Fear Of Death

  Robert Charles Wilson (2000). “The Perseids and Other Stories”, p.140, Macmillan

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• I don't remember the first image of a werewolf I saw, but I suspect it was the hybrid type, up on two legs, with long limbs, hair, claw-like fingernails and lupine head. To me there's nothing scary about complete transformation from human into wolf. Wolves aren't scary. They're dangerous, yes, but so are geese, in the wrong mood. What's scary is seeing the human in the wolf but knowing it's beyond the reach of reason or emotional appeal. That's where the horror and dread kicks in.

  Glen Duncan

  Emotional, Hair, Two

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• I am too sick to work and haven't money enough to last 2 months and pay income tax. I want to keep going but do not see quite how, and there is no alternative - rather than justify my mother's 25-year dread of my "coming back on her, sick," I must kill myself. If she has to pay funeral costs, at least she will cut them to the bone and I will not be here to endure her martyrdom and prolong it by living.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Mother, Cutting, Years

  Rose Wilder Lane's diary entry, December 9, 1933.

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• 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

  Mean, Long, Emotion

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• The [Great] Actor is able to approach in himself a cosmic dread as large as life. He is able to go from his dread to a joy so sweet that it is without limit. Only then will the actor have direct access to the life that moves in him, which is as free as his breathing. And like his breathing, he doesn't cause it to happen. He doesn't contain it, and it doesn't contain him.

  Joseph Chaikin

  Sweet, Moving, Breathing

  Joseph Chaikin (1993). “The Presence of the Actor”, p.10, Theatre Communications Group

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• Unseen University had never admitted women, muttering something about problems with the plumbing, but the real reason was an unspoken dread that if women were allowed to mess around with magic they would probably be embarrassingly good at it.

  Terry Pratchett

  Real, Magic, Unseen

  Terry Pratchett (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld”, p.17, Harper Collins

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• I felt despair. The word’s overused and banalified now, despair, but it’s a serious word, and I’m using it seriously. For me it denotes a simple admixture — a weird yearning for death combined with a crushing sense of my own smallness and futility that presents as a fear of death. It’s maybe close to what people call dread or angst. But it’s not these things, quite. It’s more like wanting to die in order to escape the unbearable feeling of becoming aware that I’m small and weak and selfish and going without any doubt at all to die. It’s wanting to jump overboard.

  David Foster Wallace

  Crush, Selfish, Simple

  "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: An Essay". Book by David Foster Wallace, 1997.

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