Quotes on Dread

We have educated ourselves into a world from which wonder, and he fear and dread and splendor and freedom of wonder have been banished. Of course wonder is costly. You couldn't incorporate it into a modern state, beacuse it is the antithesis of the anxiously worshiped security which is what a modern state is asked to give. Wonder is marvellous but it is also cruel, cruel, cruel. It is undemocratic, discriminatory and pitiless.

Is not dread of thirst when your well is full, the thirst that is unquenchable?

I know something about dread myself, and appreciate the elaborate systems with which some people fill the void, appreciate all the opiates of the people, whether they are as accessible as alcohol and heroin and promiscuity or as hard to come by as faith in God or History.

A truce to philosophy!—Life is before me, and I rush into possession. Hope, glory, love, and blameless ambition are my guides, and my soul knows no dread. What has been, though sweet, is gone; the present is good only because it is about to change, and the to come is all my own.

The gardener had a dread of small women; he'd always imagined them to have an anger disproportionate to their size.

There’s no conscious thing on the face of the world that doesn’t know dread more intimately than its own heartbeat.

Good night, Westley. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely kill you in the morning.