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Quotes About Foreboding

Expectancy of anything is always oppressive. When
~ Henryk Sienkiewicz
Studded with black hobnails, the great iron doors made an unspoken threat that things would only get worse as they split down the middle and swung open.
~ Hideyuki Kikuchi
Destruction and ruin," she says with a clack of her tongue. "I can practically smell it on you.
~ Holly Black
I am not yet in pain. But I do not doubt that I will be.
~ Holly Black
Something bad was about to happen. Uncle had been expecting it.
~ Linda Sue Park
The mass of Venom. I mean, he's like a big, foreboding, physical presence. Actually, let me correct myself - the eyes, the tongue, the mouth, those are his most distinguishing traits, and so making those look as photoreal and true to the comics as we possibly could was super important to me.
~ Ruben Fleischer
The world around him grew silent; there was something in the air. The odor of dead meat came down on the wind, drifting through the trees. Soft and sour, the smell of distant death.
~ Jeff Shaara
Predate your telling me, T.T.
~ Jeffery Deaver
For the first time his mind grasped the fact that when life has sentenced you to suffer, the sentence is neither a fancy nor a threat, but you are dragged to the rack, and you are tortured, and there is no marvelous rescue at the last moment, no awakening as from a bad dream. He felt it as a foreboding which struck him with terror.
~ Jens Peter Jacobsen
The trees stood stiffly like sinister monks in black habits guarding the glades and clearings with the broad sleeves of their branches.
~ Jerzy Kosi?ski
That doomsday idea is in everybody's subconscious.
~ Alycia Debnam-Carey
ON THE MORNING I was scheduled to die
~ Peter Lerangis
she was the human equivalent of a storm cloud.
~ David Sedaris
Evil was coming. I wondered whose face it would be wearing.
~ Dean Koontz
And he would gaze in terror at his furniture, his walls, his pictures - what strange scene might they one day witness, what awful experience might he one day have in their presence?
~ Unknown
Y el silencio fue tan fúnebre para su corazón siempre aterrado, que la espalda se le heló de horrible presentimiento.
~ Horacio Quiroga
Oh, if only I knew back when it begin what was going to happen…perhaps the pressure of knowing would have been too much to bear.
~ Unknown
I was imbued from a very early age with a sense of doom.
~ Ruth Rendell
Once upon a time - in the days of Margaret Thatcher and John Major - I would have rejoiced in a Conservative Party landslide in Britain. But now, Prime Minister Boris Johnson's victory fills me with fear and foreboding.
~ Max Boot
An apocalypse, by its nature, is kind of doomy and gloomy.
~ Jim Butcher
If one ever sees something written in red, one knows trouble and change lie ahead.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
Whenever one is imagining a bright future, the next disaster is just around the corner.
~ W. G. Sebald
The sky is darkening like a stain Something is going to fall like rain And it won't be flowers
~ W.H. Auden
It seemed incredible to me that day without premonitions or symbols should be the one of my inexorable death .
~ Jorge Luís Borges