Quotes About Foreboding

The bullet that will kill me is not yet cast.

Before he sat down, my internal heat-seekers sensed what was coming my way: deep blue eyes that melted girls like Velveeta in a microwave. I tried to resist those microwave eyes, but sometimes there's no defense against them. I had a feeling I'd be seeing him weeping over my coffin later that night.

from the hook on the door

Coming events cast their Shadows before them. —Winston Churchill

The room was beginning to darken and spin.

It has to do instead with the presentiment men have at every moment of their lives, a foreboding adamantly hushed and hidden—that left to their own devices, in the dull, quiet company of passing time, they would atrophy faster. As though they'd been designed for a brief spurt of intensity, a high-stakes race, a triumph and, immediately afterward, exhaustion

In many cases your imagination is much more effective than what can be shown. It primes you to know something is about to happen - the anticipation and anxiety is worse than what ends up happening.

Someone's gonna die before this is over,' I said to Doc McGhee. [...] 'I don't think someone's gonna die, Ozzy. I think we're all gonna die.'

Responding to Fukuyama's thesis in 1989, Allan Bloom was full of foreboding about the gathering revolts against a world that 'has been made safe for reason as understood by the market', and 'a global common market the only goal of which is to minister to men's bodily needs and whims'.

I had the distinct feeling that something was going to happen. I feared it would be a piercing event, a right-out-of-the-blue thing or worse, a profound nonevent.

All horror movies start the same way. Whether the scene is an abandoned cabin, a dark alley, or a peaceful cottage, one line of dialogue, quietly uttered five minutes before the carnage starts, is inevitable: "Did you hear something?

I felt a sense of anticipation of being on the verge of something interesting.

The eyes she had wondered about turned out to be the most startling shade of blue-green she had even seen in her life. Ringed by raven lashes and a dark foreboding brow, they pierced her very soul.

many dark and bloody

I am borne darkly, fearfully, afar;

He wanders about as food for vultures; he knows the day of darkness is at hand.