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Quotes About Foreboding

it was already tomorrow. She should have known from the beginning that it would end like this.
~ Michel Faber
He loved me and I loved him, but the number in my head was telling me that he was going to die today. And the numbers had never been wrong.
~ Rachel Ward, Numbers
Plötzlich hob er seinen Blick und spürte in der Luft dieses unheimliche Etwas kurz vor Morgengrauen, das den Menschen ein Gruseln einflößt.
~ Bram Stoker
Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the moonlit sky.
~ Bram Stoker
Peace has gone on too long. Something inside me says that trouble such as these shores have never known is headed our way.
~ Brian Jacques
I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time—when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing
~ Carl Sagan
Why do I think that you're going to be the death of me?
~ Terry Brooks
Omens are everywhere in this world you just have to find the one that fits.
~ Terry Pratchett
By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes. [...] By the stinking of my nose, something wicked this way goes[.] [...] By the blinking of my eyes, something wicked this way dies.
~ Terry Pratchett
with the expression of one who knows that the light at the end of the tunnel is an oncoming train.
~ Terry Pratchett
An hour before her shift started, an hour before she was even supposed to be there, they rolled the first corpse through the door.
~ Tess Gerritsen
You know those movies where the people in the audience are screaming, 'Don't go in that door!' because you know the killer is there? Well, it is the same thing with this debt. We know how this ends.
~ Marco Rubio
It's too quiet, Barrons growls.
~ Karen Marie Moning
I feel as if I'm waiting for something dreadful to happen, and then I realize it already has.
~ Kate Atkinson
This waiting is worse than anything. It's like one of those nightmares where you know something terrible is going to happen and you don't know what it is, but you there's nothing you can do to stop it.
~ Kate Ross
There is coming a storm of fire and blood, Mixtli.
~ Gary Jennings
all was eclipsed in sinister muteness
~ Herman Melville
reading of birds could not keep off dark destruction
~ Homer
Yet his reading of birds could not keep off dark destruction
~ Homer
it hung above the livid, bruised land like an admonition
~ Iain M. Banks
Twas ostensibly ominous in the overview To be 'orribly and onerously overrun.
~ Ian Mcewan
The key to a good horror movie is what happens between the scares. The scares aren't the tricky part. If you're involved in what's going on in between, the scare is going to trick you. If you're not, the best scare in the world will not be scary.
~ Jason Blum
There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.
~ Josh Billings
She could sense something creeping towards her home, shrouded in thunder, carried by it.
~ Storm Constantine