Quotes About Foreboding

I know now, like drumbeats. Portentous, and a little sinister, like tympani strikes at the start of a gloomy symphony. Shostakovich, maybe.

Sometimes you woke up, and you knew for sure, from history and experience and weary intuition, that the brand new day would bring nothing good at all.

about her and to wonder what was going to happen next. First, she tried to look down and make out what she was coming to, but it was too dark to

This kind of search in the dark, with its tense desire, lasting for years, full of foreboding, with it's exhausting change form aspiration to frustration and it's final breakthrough to lucidity, all of this you only know properly if you experienced it.

There's a certain kind of rain that falls only in comics, a thick, persistent drizzle, much heavier than normal water, that bounces off whatever it hits, dripping from fedoras, running slowly down windowpanes and reflecting the doom in bad men's hearts. It's called an "eisnershpritz," and it's named after the late Will Eisner, one of the preeminent stylists of twentieth-century comics, who never drew a foreboding scene that couldn't be made a little more foreboding with a nice big downpour.

The way everything seems to be working out right now, I wouldn't be surprised if I ended up dead before the night is over.

A strange kind of presentiment frequently, on this day, occurred to her;—it seemed as if her fate rested here, and was by some invisible means connected with this castle.

There was something too extraordinary in the appearance of this man, too singular in his conduct, to pass unnoticed by the visitors. He. was of a tall thin figure, bending forward from the shoulders; of a sallow complexion, and harsh features, and had an eye, which, as it looked up from the cloke that muffled the lower part of his countenance, seemed expressive of uncommon ferocity.

I have long had this premonition of a bright day and a deserted house

We are always waiting for something bad. If something good happens, we are sure something bad will follow.

From that moment, events rushed on with breath-taking speed. I spent the two and a half months until my arrest in tormented conflict between reason and the kind of foreboding which Lermontov called "prophetic anguish.

No, dear.  It's not that sort of thing.  I have this feeling you'll be in danger there.

Everything seems doomed in advance to insignificance.

For me it's about creating and sustaining tension for as long as possible, and I'm not generally interested in allowing that tension to be deflated, especially by a jump scare.

Despite my pain, I felt not the regret of an ending, but the foreboding of a beginning.

I should probably start with the blood.

she felt that little tingle at the base of her skull that warned her of bad news.

Everyone said that one day I was going to have a big accident, an accident to end all accidents. One day you might look up and see a kid falling from the sky. That would be me.

Frightened meant that deep, sickening feeling of something terrible about to happen.

He's going to say it, I just know he is … "Let's see what happens.

I was realising that all new feelings from here on in would probably be bad ones. Surprises would no longer be good.

He was a bad thing waiting for a worse thing to happen.

Cliffords, were not the only people to realise that there were terrible times ahead.' 'What happened to your

On occasions, very occasionally, things happen as you feel they will, as you feel in your bones they will.