Dread

Famous quotes containing the word dread:

“There dwell the children of the dark Night, the dread gods Sleep and Death.”
—Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)

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

“I dread no more the first white in my hair,
Or even age itself, the easy shoe,
The cane, the wrinkled hands, the special chair:
Time, doing this to me, may alter too
My anguish, into something I can bear.”
—Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)