Toni Morrison
Novelist, Essayist
"In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent."
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Dread
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Samuel Beckett
Playwright, Novelist
"If there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am I doing."
Benjamin Harrison
Politician
"I'd rather have a bullet inside of me than to be living in constant dread of one."
Samuel Johnson
Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
"Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it."
Orhan Pamuk
Novelist, Screenwriter
"Suddenly Ka realized he was in love with İpek. And realizing that this love would determine the rest of his life, he was filled with dread."
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"If I am killed, I can die by once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again."
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"We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul."
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"Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown."
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"A burnt child dreads the fire."
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"Dread is a womanish debility in which freedom swoons. Psychologically speaking, the fall into sin always occurs in impotence. But dread is at the same time the most egotistic thing."
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"Fear is secured by a dread of punishment."
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"I dread specialists in power because they are specialists speaking outside of their special subject."
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"I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results."
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"Cowardice, the dread of what will happen."
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"Dread of night. Dread of not-night."
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"Innocence has nothing to dread."
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"Jah would never give the power to a baldhead; run come crucify the Dread."
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"A burnt dog dreads the fire."
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"Greatly his foes he dreads, but more his friends; He hurts me most who lavishly commends."
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"He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule."
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"I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread."
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"Dread is a sympathetic antipathy and an antipathetic sympathy."
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"There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds."
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"Is not dread of thirst when your well is full, the thirst that is unquenchable?"
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"We dread the future only when we are not sure we can kill ourselves when we want to."
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