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Quotes About Foreboding

From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn't know exactly what.
~ Elvis Presley
It was a stormy and dark night;
~ Alexandre Dumas
I understood that fate could not be eluded forever; it came on leathery wings, swooping through the darkness like the bats in the orchards.
~ Alice Hoffman
A glass breaking on its own portended death.
~ Alice Hoffman
had felt a chill, as if she brought the future with her, clinging to her clothes.
~ Alice Hoffman
You want to be able to read such stories in just one or two sittings. You want them to feel like a hand on your throat.
~ Joe Hill
At first there's nothing to see, but you feel a sort of weariness that tells you something is in the air.
~ E.H. Gombrich
The sun was already declining and each of the trees held a premonition of night.
~ E.M. Forster
"Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil!—prophet still, if bird or devil!"
~ Edgar Allan Poe
The teenager seems to have replaced the Communist as the appropriate target for public controversy and foreboding.
~ Edgar Friedenberg
The faces of them all gather blackness.
~ Anonymous
He had entered a veritable miasma of evil, and harm, in the worst possible way, was to come to us all too soon.
~ Anthony Horowitz
There was something wrong about the house in Eastfield Terrace. Something unpleasant.
~ Anthony Horowitz
I can tell there's going to be a fight in a pub five minutes before anyone else.
~ Rob Beckett
I don't know why, but I'm dreading it.
~ Francine Pascal
But I have a feeling Regina Morrow may be in for big trouble!
~ Francine Pascal
He needed the warmth of the sun to take away the chill of foreboding that grew in him.
~ Francine Rivers
And if any landscape can provide darkness, with a very real hint of menace, it is most surely the Fens.
~ Francis Pryor
I should've suspected trouble when the coffee failed to arrive.
~ Frank Herbert
I should've suspected trouble when the coffee failed to arrive," Kynes said.
~ Frank Herbert
Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky.
~ Bram Stoker
I remember watching episodes of 'The Sopranos' and being filled with dread knowing what was coming or anticipating what was coming. I don't think that that's always a bad thing. I think sometimes the audience needs a little catharsis held away from them.
~ Courtney A. Kemp
but nothing upset and preoccupied him like the phrase whatever they dread most, that will happen. It seemed more than a simple curse; there was the ring of something presaging and prophetic about it, it was the sort of thing Jesse would say.
~ Ron Hansen
All summer it feels as if it will rain soon. All summer the strange feeling, 'something will break.
~ Luke Davies