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Quotes About Foreboding

Thunder in the Sky Twelfth
~ Elizabeth Peters
There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
The kiss of death.
~ Alfred Smith
Certain houses, like certain persons, manage somehow to proclaim at once their character for evil.
~ Algernon Blackwood
Your doom awaits you.
~ Alice B. Emerson
I see a fate on thee, sister.
~ Alison Croggon
My feelings of revulsion and foreboding about nuclear weapons had not changed an iota since 1945, and they have never left me. Since I was 14, the overriding objective of my life has been to prevent the occurrence of nuclear war.
~ Daniel Ellsberg
Adrian's face was the picture of perfect politeness and restraint, meaning something disastrous was about to happen.
~ Richelle Mead
There was a malevolence about them, a sinister feel as their eyes locked onto us and didn't let go.
~ Richelle Mead
It was something black . . . Something tall and black . . . Something very tall and very black and very thin.
~ Roald Dahl
There was something coming up the street on the opposite side. It was something black . . . Something tall and black . . . Something very tall and very black and very thin. Who?
~ Roald Dahl
Pero a mí me pareció que había algo raro en su forma de hablar y en su aburrimiento: una sombra malévola en su ceño, y en su actitud una determinación que me produjo cierto desasosiego al mirarle
~ Roald Dahl
The moment he touched it with his fingers, something electric went through his body, and there came to him a powerful premonition that this was a thing that could destroy the peace and happiness of many people.
~ Roald Dahl
Besides, that thing was waiting for him. Waiting for him—
~ Robert Bloch
He bent to take her arm, and I saw his shirt was spattered with blood. Streaks and drips of blood marked his shirt with slaughterhouse designs, and more blood speckled his face. I
~ Robert Crais
It looked as if a night of dark intent was coming, and not only a night, an age. Someone had better be prepared for rage...
~ Robert Frost
It was almost like I was expecting to get crushed.
~ Kieran Scott
Sure, it was nice now, but eventually there would be running and screaming and blood on the floor.
~ Kim Harrison
Everything was going too well. Something had to be wrong.
~ Kim Harrison
Anticipation worse than the act itself, as with so many things.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
Sebastian glanced around. "Raises my hackles, though"—another flash of lightning—"almost like it's . . . haunted." Sebastian gets a cookie.
~ Kresley Cole
Sooo . . . anybody else have a sense of impending doom?" Finn asked around a mouthful of Mayday bar.
~ Kresley Cole
Ever since then violent anticipation has always been an anguish rather than joy for me.
~ Yukio Mishima