By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
Relieved because what I dreaded most in the whole world was going to happen and I wouldn’t have to live with it anymore—the fear. There is the relief of finally not being alone and the relief of being alone when no one can take anything away from you. Here she was, my beautiful fear. Shiny as crystal lace frost.
I dreaded having a boring life when I grew up. And I certainly can't complain about being bored.
Two sorts of peace are more to be dreaded than all the troubles in the world — peace with sin, and peace in sin.
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
No! no arresting the vast wheel of time, That round and round still turns with onward might, Stern, dragging thousands to the dreaded night Of an unknown hereafter.
Among precautions against ambition, it may not be amiss to take precautions against our own. I must fairly say, I dread our own power and our own ambition: I dread our being too much dreaded.
Chastity seems to have come as a late development. What the primitive maiden dreaded was not the loss of her virginity but a reputation for sterility.
She had never before minded being alone. Now she dreaded it. When she was alone now she felt so dreadfully alone.
I have written chiefly because, though I have often dreaded the necessity, I have found it more painful, in the end, not to write.
If you are dreaded by many then beware of many.
There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people. (Bonald, M. } There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
Well, you've done it now," was her sisterly opening shot. Jaine rubbed between her eyebrows; a definite headache was forming. After the exchange with David, she waited to see where this one was going. "I won't be able to hold up my head in church. " "Really? Oh, Shelley, I'm so sorry," Jaine said sweetly. "I didn't realize you have the dreaded Limp Neck disease. When were you diagnosed?
This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation.
For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired.
Verily all things move within your being in constant half embrace, the desired and the dreaded, the repugnant and the cherished, the pursued and that which you would escape.
Hidden evils are most dreaded.
…Jo loved a few persons very dearly and dreaded to have their affection lost or lessened in any way.
Against the suffering which may come upon one from human relationships the readiest safeguard is voluntary isolation, keeping oneself aloof from other people. The happiness which can be achieved along this path is, as we see, the happiness of quietness. Against the dreaded external world one can only defend oneself by some kind of turning away from it, if one intends to solve the task by oneself.
At 35 years of age, I realized that my ballet career wasn't going to last for ever. As a parent of three young children, I had to start to plan my future after dance even though I dreaded about.