Quotes About Premonition

This is a pandemic. I felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic.

I live in a state of hypersensitivity, and I've always had this feeling that something bad is going to happen to myself, or my wife and children. This manifests itself in different fears and visions.

I shall omit former particulars, and begin with informing the Reader, that, in 1792, I was strangely visited, by day and night, concerning what was coming upon the whole earth.

I don't think I'm the only person who sees a cataclysm coming, but I think I'm the only person saying it, and I think that scares people.

The nakedness of the presents on the floor was a sad premonition of their naked future, after the brief, false glory of being wrapped.

In my dream, people apologized for things that were about to happen, and lit candles by inhaling.

Forewarned is not forearmed, it is foreshadowed.

I'd not felt so much as a pinprick of foreboding or dark premonition about what lay beyond the curve of time.

The emotion was, in retrospect, a warning.

In every circumstance, all my life, my mind shows me the possible bad outcome: someone walks down steps, and before I can do anything to head the image off, I see a fall, a catastrophe.

You did what you had to do. It was coming on for a long time.

The gym cat appears to those who will die. He is our totem. This thought came to me a few weeks ago. I shared it with no one of course.

Half the urge to write is the premonition that later the thought I am having might disappear so I had better write it down while I still have the inclination, however overshadowed this desire is by indolence.

The core of the illusion is that we believe we understand the past, which implies that the future also should be knowable, but in fact we understand the past less than we believe we do. Know is not the only word that fosters this illusion. In common usage, the words intuition and premonition also are reserved for past thoughts that turned out to be true.

She spoke to him before the world fell apart".

As a kid I was deeply curious as to what college life would be like. Now that I am a university professor, I realize that this was a premonition that once I entered college I would never get out, and that my matriculation would turn into some sort of life sentence.

You mustn't take what I say as gospel because no one can second-guess the future.

It seemed unnecessary for her to have had a premonition at all.

Black cats. They kill me every time. I can just feel it when I see one. The only thing that gets me is black cats.

I have a weird sense sometimes of what's going to happen before it happens, and I kind of live by that, which is how my instincts operate, I suppose.

I must have been one of the least surprised people on earth on September 11. I felt very braced for that. I knew something like that was going to come.

She was dead even before she was a corpse.

Given enough traces of continuity, you could make a leap that enabled you to see the whole as a kind of premonition of real knowledge.

When I was still quite young I had a complete presentiment of life. It was like the nauseating smell of cooking escaping from a ventilator: you don't have to have eaten it to know that it would make you throw up.