Is it then so very dreadful to die? [ Virgil ]
Between the acting of a dreadful thing
And the first motion, all the interim is
Like a phantasma or a hideous dream. [ Jul. Caes ]
Dreadful looks a God, where mortals weep. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Eternity, thou pleasing, dreadful thought! [ Addison ]
Without an helm or pilot her to sway;
Full sad and dreadful is that ship's event,
So is the man that wants intendiment. [ Spenser ]
Dreadful is their doom, whom doubt has driven
To censure fate, and pious hope forego. [ Beattie ]
Who thinks that Fortune cannot change her mind.
Prepares a dreadful jest for all mankind. [ Pope ]
The next dreadful thing to a battle lost, is a battle won. [ Duke Of Wellington ]
For zeal's a dreadful termagant, That teaches saints to tear and rant. [ Butler ]
The cruelty of the effeminate is more dreadful than that of the hardy. [ Lavater ]
In treachery it is not the fraud, but the cold-heartedness, that is chiefly dreadful. [ John Ruskin ]
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. [ Johnson ]
Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die. [ Cicero ]
Revenge is barren of itself; itself is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its saiety, despair. [ Schiller ]
Nay, but weigh well what you presume to swear. Oaths are of dreadful weight! and, if they are false. Draw down damnation. [ Sir Thomas Overbury ]
Always! that is a dreadful word. Women are so fond of using it. They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
Had he unjustly fallen, your name had then been stained to latest times with foul reproach; and what more dreadful, more to be abhorred, than to be known with infamy forever? [ Paterson ]
The truth of it is, there is nothing in history which is so improving to the reader as those accounts which we meet with of the death of eminent persons and of their behavior in that dreadful season. [ Addison ]
Revenge is fever in our own blood, to be cured only by letting the blood of another; but the remedy too often produces a relapse, which is remorse - a malady far more dreadful than the first disease, because it is incurable. [ Colton ]
Reflect on death as in Jesus Christ, not as without Jesus Christ. Without Jesus Christ it is dreadful, it is alarming, it is the terror of nature. In Jesus Christ it is fair and lovely, it is good and holy, it is the joy of saints. [ Pascal ]