Quotes About Foreboding

Bert's dog smelled nature or history and began to tremble.

A drama will be enacted in Germany compared with which the French Revolution will seem like a harmless idyll,' wrote Heine in a moment of foreboding. 'Christianity may have restrained the martial ardour of the Teutons for a time, but it did not destroy it; now that the restraining talisman, the cross, has rotted away, the old frenzied madness will break out again.'[459]

I got a bad feeling about this." —

confronted by seven tall, cloaked figures, dark and foreboding, all armed.

Where I go, the ghosts go. I go where the evil is.

?imdi kim bilir nas?l s?k?c? bir ya?am bekliyordu?

impending, weightless doom.

If the atmosphere is to be foreboding, you must forebode on every page. If it is to be cold, you must chill, not once or twice, but until your readers are shivering.

I don't know what it is. I simply can't stand it. It's like a hand reaching out of the dark. It is fear—blind fear as if it were lying in wait somewhere for me.

of mounting threat.

Perhaps because waiting for an inevitable disaster is worse than the disaster itself.

The woods were wrong.

Over time, he'd come to understand that in some dark corner of his mind, he'd been dreading and half-expecting the news. The ax had fallen at last, suspense was forever over . . .

Everyday things became so strange, when you were waiting for something dreadful to happen. Her heart was pounding fast.

everything started to look more sinister.

He knew some of the signs of post-traumatic stress disorder and she had now survived two near-fatal attacks. In the immediate aftermath of losing half his leg in Afghanistan, he, too, had experienced dissociation, finding himself suddenly and abruptly removed from his present surroundings to those few seconds of acute foreboding and terror that had preceded the disintegration of the Viking in which he had been sitting, and of his body and military career.

I don't know...just a feeling, like in..." Xander thought for a moment. "Star Wars. You know, when Han Solo says, 'I've got a bad feeling about this'?

Some places speak distinctly. Certain dank gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted; certain coasts are set apart for shipwrecks.

Some places speak distinctly. Certain dark gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted; certain coasts are set apart for shipwreck.

Something was in the air tonight, and whatever it might be, it was keeping sleep at bay.

he had no doubt that the earth would be a vastly different place—a place where the sword of Damocles hung above it by only the most slender thread, forever after.

imagina como es saber que algo horrible va a pasar pero no saber cuando

he followed me with his eyes as if I wore a black hood and carried an axe, and he was next in line.

I observed the signs of impending doom