Dread

Famous quotes containing the word dread:

“It amazes me when I hear any person prefer blindness to deafness. Such a person must have a terrible dread of being alone. Blindness makes one totally dependent on others, and deprives us of every satisfaction that results from light.”
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

“Backward and forward, eternity is the same; already we have been the nothing we dread to be.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“My apprehensions come in crowds;
I dread the rustling of the grass;
The very shadows of the clouds
Have power to shake me as they pass:”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)