Quotes About Foreboding

Something terrible's coming, and everyone in the world is working to bring it on.

Many years later he insisted, 'They knew it was the end when I was with them'; that evening, though the words remained resolutely unspoken, everyone had a clear sense of what might lie ahead.

Coming events cast their shadows before.

Prophets are dastardly pessimists, to a man.

Eso es lo malo de las premoniciines, que tienen la molesta costumbre de hacerse realidad.

was dark and no more inviting

An anxious expression spread over his face as he thought to himself that the time was coming when he would have to give up this comfort, and then that comfort, until God knew what would be the end of it all. In this way he was an imaginative man, and when these fits of foreboding overcame him he genuinely forgot that only a succession of highly improbable catastrophes could reduce him to the penury he so feared.

His vision of the future, already shadowed by anxiety, had just grown several shades darker.

The streets were dark with something more than night.

The great lesson I get from 'Moby-Dick' is that when the times are bad, when there is great foreboding, there are still ways to go about living. It's through Ishmael that I find a kind of overall cosmic approach to a meaningful life in this meaningless world.

Qibli was expecting Turtle to do something, and Turtle had a bad feeling that "something" wasn't "Turtle flying all the way back to the Kingdom of the Sea, finding a deep trench, and staying there forever.

And then we heard the THUMP-THUMP-THUMP of grumpy talons stomping our way, and in comes gigantic Morrowseer, all frowning and portentous as usual.

All your sea-omens are of disaster; and of course, with man in his present unhappy state, huddled together in numbers far too great and spending all his surplus time and treasure beating out his brother's brains, any gloomy foreboding is likely to be fulfilled; but your corpse, your parson, your St Elmo's fire is not the cause of the tragedy.

is waiting, the audience is secretly aware that

But even then I knew how it was going to be, I could feel the coming silence in the long, poisonous pauses that expanded as the night progressed.

an ugly premonition

Fortune Telling. You make arbitrary and disturbing predictions about the future. It's as if you had a crystal ball that only gives you bad news!

expectant. My chest bumps like a dryer with shoes in it. I compose what I project will be seen as a

Beware the ides of March.

The ides of March are come. Soothsayer: Ay, Caesar; but not gone.

Oh, God! I have an ill-divining soul!

Now, at the price of their life-blood, the long oppression had been rolled away. Surely here at last was peace and safety. With one passionate spasm the French people cried, "Never again!" But the future was heavy with foreboding.

Mmm....she's doomed! You're doomed!! They're all doomed! Notice I didn't specify what kind of doom, so no matter what happens, I predicted it. How very WISE of me.

Okay, I'm guessing you're gonna give us the bad news first because there's no good news?