Dread Quotes

Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no more harm in destroying this kind of matter than in evacuating another, by medicines, when we feel the need.

My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us.

The burnt child dreads the fire.

The dread was built into the 2016 election – a little spoonful of dread.

I think something many of us grapple with are those times we dread the practice of writing, no matter the project.

I’d rather have a bullet inside of me than to be living in constant dread of one.