Quotes About Foreboding

Far too soon it had begun to seem too much of a triumph, it had been too good, too horribly unimaginable to lose, impossible finally to bear: it was as if it had become itself its own foreboding that it could not last, a foreboding that was like a presence too, turning his steps towards the taverns again. And how could one begin all over again, as though the Café Chagrin, the Farolito, had never been?

Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace the day's disasters in his morning face.

For Ben, this all had a sinister feeling, the feeling of a darker time about to begin.

I was doing it again, jumping around. But it was so hard to start at the beginning when you knew how it would end.

This is the thing no one prepares you for where disaster are concerned. There is no ominous black cloud, no spooky chill, no neon sign that flashes: Stop! Please! Go back to bed! There's something really really dreadful waiting to happen around the corner! I beg of you, do not continue!

Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before.

Even though it was six o'clock, there was no sense of approaching dawn.

Last night I felt the approach of nothing. Not too close but on its way, like a wingbeat, like the cooling of the wind, the slight initial tug of an undertow.

Where there's a doctor it's always a bad sign. Even when they are not doing the killing themselves it means a death is close, and in that way they are like ravens or crows.

The darkness ahead was not impenetrable.

Four A.M. and the darkness had a quality of inexorability and menace as though it would never lift, as though, without anyone noticing it, the dawn of the day before had been the beginning of the last light ever in the history of the world.

and every moment one expects the sky to fling a barrage from clouds so leaden they hang low across the city roofs and drown the horizon.

Don't you sense the danger?' I whispered to her. 'Can't you breathe it like the air?

The problem with fear, though, is that it isn't any one thing. Fear has a whole taxonomy—anxiety, dread, panic, foreboding—and you could be braced for one form and completely fall apart facing another.

Something wicked this way comes

Why isn't life better designed so it warns you when terrible things are about to happen?

Hope you got your things together,Hope you are quite prepared to die.Looks like we're in for nasty weather.One eye is taken for an eye.Don't go around tonight,Well it's bound to take your life.There's a bad moon on the rise.

He could sense a fierce tautness in the cheap air of the tunnel, almost like entering a medical ward where disease lingers in the corners and no one has ever opened a window to bring in fresh air.

The day before me is fraught with God knows what horrors.

sense the story like an approaching storm

I could tell you certain things which would convince you, but you would never know a happy day again. You would pass the rest of your life, as I pass mine, a haunted man, a man who has seen hell.

El lector debe prepararse para asistir a las más siniestras escenas.

You will die in this house.

I remember reading 'The Guest' and thinking, 'This is going to be something!'