Quotes about Dread

For though in old times there were some, and in the present day not a few are found, who deny the being of a God, yet, whether they will or not, they occasionally feel the truth which they are desirous not to know. We do not read of any man who broke out into more unbridled and audacious contempt of the Deity than C. Caligula, and yet none showed greater dread when any indication of divine wrath was manifested.

Hence that dread and amazement with which as Scripture uniformly relates, holy men were struck and overwhelmed whenever they beheld the presence of God.

What you hope for, you also fear.

For the first time he was face to face with his hovering dread: he was judging where he still adored.

The reason we do anything one more time is because the last time did not really satisfy us deeply. As English poet W.H. Auden put it in "Apropos of Many Things": "We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the present and let our illusions die.

I'm scared of a lot of things.

You have a morbid aversion to dying. You probably resent the fact that you're at war and might get your head blown off any second.

When we fear we will suffer, we already suffer the things we fear.

to fear is to run away from something due to an unpleasant emotion or feeling that we may suffer or be harmed.

Don't you know that the very thing a man dreads is the thing that always happens?

There is little peace or comfort in life if we are always anxious as to future events. He that worries himself with the dread of possible contingencies will never be at rest.