Dread is a sympathetic antipathy and an antipathetic sympathy. Soren Kierkegaard
I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now that I am older I find that I don’t want to do them. Lady Nancy Astor
The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology. Sir James George Frazer
As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation. Hans Selye
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. George Bernard Shaw
The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married. Cyril Connolly
My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me. Washington Irving
The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good. John Locke
Dread of disaster makes everybody act in the very way that increases the disaster. Bertrand Russell
Dread is the first and strongest of the…kinds of fear. It is that tension, that waiting that comes when you know there is something to fear but you have not yet identified what it is. Orson Scott Card