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Quotes about Dread

Fear is only a four letter word.
- Jeff Hardy
Fear is a greater evil than evil itself.
- Francis de Sales
It is what we fear that happens to us.
- Oscar Wilde
Omnipotence is bought with ceaseless fear.
- Pierre Corneille
This is the century of fear.
- Albert Camus
Fear is cruel and mean.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The intensest form of hatred is that rooted in fear.
- George Eliot
He is much to be dreaded who stands in dread of poverty.
- Publilius Syrus
I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.
- Martin Luther
Your life shall hang in doubt before you; night and day you shall be in dread, and have no assurance of your life. In the morning you shall say: 'Would it were evening!' and at evening you shall say: 'Would it were morning!'" I have not found a place which sets forth the misery of a bad conscience so clearly, with such fitting and appropriate words and expressions.
- Martin Luther
The basic anxiety, the anxiety of a finite being about the threat of non-being, cannot be eliminated. It belongs to existence itself.
- Paul Tillich
The fear and dread of you will fall on every living creature on the earth, every bird of the air, every creature that crawls on the ground, and all the fish of the sea. They are delivered into your hand.
- Genesis 9:2