For many sportsmen, coming face to face with irrefutable evidence of their mortality is the moment they dread above all others.
It's the end game that people dread and that's what I'm scared of
There are certain people who so ardently and passionately desire a thing, that from dread of losing it they leave nothing undone to make them lose it.
Travelling fills me with dread.
We hope to grow old and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and we flee from death.
A burnt dog dreads the fire.
The image of Eternity--the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
What turns a work crisis into a life crisis is the infusion of dread.
Actors dread working with studios because they dictate what you do in a way that independent movies can't.
A State infinitely worse than that which the most inflamed Zealot, the most violent Republican or Enthusiast even pretended to dread before the Rebellion commenced.
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.
It is a dreadful truth that the state of having to depend solely on God is what we all dread most. . . . It is good of Him to force us; but dear me, how hard to feel that it is good at the time.
Not that I am (I think) in much danger of ceasing to believe in God. The real danger is of coming to believe such dreadful things about Him. The conclusion I dread is not 'So there's no God after all,' but 'So this is what God's really like. Deceive yourself no longer.
When we are no longer motivated by fear, we understand that every moment is perfect in its own way. We no longer dread what we can't control; we learn to respect the wisdom of Spirit rather than impose our will on situations. This is the path of genuine power.
When individuals approach one another with deep purposes on both sides they seldom come at once to the matter which they have most at heart. They dread the electric shock of a too sudden contact with it.
Adolescence is a twentieth-century invention most parents approach with dread and look back on with the relief of survivors.