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Quotes About Foreboding

Well, with all shows that become successful, Ive always had a gut feeling. All of the shows that Ive been involved in that have become successful Ive had this gut feeling from reading the scripts.
~ Danny John-Jules
It is possible I already had some presentiment of my future.
~ Gene Wolfe
The frivolity and boredom which unsettle the established order, the vague foreboding of something unknown, these are the heralds of approaching change. The gradual crumbling that left unaltered the face of the whole is cut short by a sunburst which, in one flash, illuminates the features of the new world.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Weather forecast for tonight: dark.
~ George Carlin
Weather forcast for tonight: dark.
~ George Carlin
Love gives insight, Maggie, and insight often gives foreboding. Listen to me, let me supply you with books; do let me see you sometimes, be your brother and teacher, as you said at Lorton. It is less wrong that you should see me than that you should be committing this long suicide.
~ George Eliot
To Mr. Casaubon now, it was as if he suddenly found himself on the dark river-brink and heard the plash of the oncoming oar, not discerning the forms, but expecting the summons.
~ George Eliot
One of the wonderful things about 'Power' and why fans often say it makes their heart race is it's set up like a horror film because the audience is, like, four or five steps ahead of the characters.
~ Lela Loren
A great thriller, to me, is more about creating a sense of unease: a queasiness that comes with knowing something is not quite right.
~ Gillian Flynn
Every time I see you, I feel like I'm waiting for the other shoe to fall. I feel uncomfortable every time I see you, and every time we talk, my throat tickles.
~ Yoon Joon-soo
Oh, the dread. The horrible, awful, dreadful, dready dread.
~ Marian Keyes
I experienced pleasure like a future pain.
~ Annie Ernaux
The day after Ussher
~ Anthony Trollope
Already she fancied she could see the shadow of tomorrow faintly clouding his face...
~ Antonia White
A feeling of foreboding, and, indeed, of physical as well as psychological discomfort, had come over him. He suddenly recalled—and this did nothing at all to help—a phrase he had once come across: "Someone is walking over your grave.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Someone is walking over your grave.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
She turned her car onto the last stretch of straight drive leading her directly, face to face, to Hill House and, moving without thought, pressed her foot on the brake to stall the car and sat, staring. The house was vile. She shivered and thought, the words coming freely into her mind, Hill House is vile, it is diseased; get away from here at once.
~ Shirley Jackson
Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more.
~ Shirley Jackson
Wait till you see the bedrooms," Eleanor said. "Mine used to be the embalming room, I think." "It's the home I've always dreamed of," Theodora said. "A little hideaway where I can be alone with my thoughts. Particularly if my thoughts happened to be about murder or suicide or—
~ Shirley Jackson
Everything is worse," he said, looking at Eleanor, "if you think something is looking at you.
~ Shirley Jackson
She shivered and though, the words coming freely into her mind, Hill House is vile, it is diseased; get away from here at once.
~ Shirley Jackson
Unnatural silence signifies no good.
~ Sophocles
I know not, but strained silence, so I deem, IS no less ominous than excessive grief.
~ Sophocles
To me so deep a silence portends some dread event; a clamorous sorrow wastes itself in sound.
~ Sophocles