Quotes About Foreboding

No entiendo por qué tengo constantemente este presentimiento de un desastre inminente

Something's going to happen!

Something tells me this isn't going to end well for everyone involved. Someone may get turned into a frog yet." And that was the good news.

Donata Santori looked down at the dead body lying at her feet and thought, 'Damn, that can't be a good sign.

Any moment now, China was about to perspire.

They wait. For what? They do not know. But they can feel it coming. Splashed by carriage wheels, they feel it. Outside cafes, looking in, they feel it. At night, in their narrow beds, they feel it. Counting the days snubs and mocks, they feel it. And it fires them.

The old church tower and garden wall Are black with autumn rain And dreary winds foreboding call The darkness down again

Are you taking us to hell?" I ask, and Denise answers with an ominous, "More or less.

If these were the foresmellings, I expected nothing less than fully ripe putrescence by, say, ten o'clock.

Monsters are divine portents.

Nobody gets excited about the future at all, ever. The future is something we find depressing and worrisome.

Suspense is worst than disappointment.

You are a bird of ill-omen, thought Kelso. You circle the world and wherever you land there is famine and death and destruction: in an earlier and less credulous age, the local citizens would have gathered at the first sight of you and driven you off with stones -

And for some reason, men and women who told the tale often found a need to add almost identical words. The storm is coming, they said, staring southward in worry. The storm is coming.

in a flat voice that did not bode well for either man.

He could almost hear the growling chuckles stifled in their throats while they waited for him.

Well, you heard what Moiraine said. It's as if some dead man was speaking with my mouth. I don't like it.

Lo que me preocupa es que el futuro ya haya llegado.

Fear is the vigilance and the need to escape from something real. Anxiety is about dread and foreboding and your imagination running away with you. Much as with depression, anxiety is rooted in a cognitive distortion. In this case, people prone toward anxiety overestimate risks and the likelihood of a bad outcome.

She seemed to walk in an atmosphere of things about to happen.

I don't half like that, said Miss Oliver, with a sigh. It's ominous—somehow. A perfect thing is a gift of the gods—a sort of compensation for what is coming afterwards.

cut off hanging by a strip of skin. He said he knew it was the spirit of his brother and that it was a warning he would die within nine days. He didn't, but he died two years after, so you see it was really true. And Ruby Gillis says—

My Spidey-sense had been tingling since I found the empty car. Sometimes it's not paranoia; it's just the truth.

I was slipping out of the shoulder holster when I felt it. The air currents had moved, as if something had moved through them. Just like that I knew I wasn't alone.