Quotes About Premonition

See, I get a round, hollow spot in my belly knowing I could tell him what's coming, but also knowing it would come out sounding like a warning.

warned by a ghost.

I have experienced all kinds of foolish melancholy—I've been homesick for countries I've never seen, and longed to be what I couldn't be—but all these moods were trivial compared to my premonition of death.

Know, he that foretells his own calamity, and makes events before they come, twice over, doth endure the pains of evil destiny.

If prevision be a fact, it is a fact which destroys absolutely the entire basis of all our past opinions of the universe.

Readers know full well that when a writer takes pains to tell them a character doesn't expect the worst, she's about to get it.

And, if she dreamed of him first, before ever they met, it did not surprise her, for she knew the power dreams hold.

Every anxiety is a mild form of premonition, and from that point the shade deepens till we get the forebodings and hauntings that merge into lunacy.

Louis XV's contention that after him would come the deluge

I don't need a premonition. It's common sense. Strange old woman. Living alone. I don't want to go inside and see all the dead rats and cats and kids in her refrigerator and watch her sing over the bones.

I have this weird, bad feeling," said another boy. "In my feeling parts. Like something bad is going to happen.

There's nothing as scary as the future.

foreshadowing is the storytelling companion of fate.

When Angelo tugged these boots on this morning, tightened and tied the laces, he had no inkling they would be his funeral wear.

Faith is the profound knowing that comes before reality confirms it.

Some people exude their futures, good or bad.

The premonition of madness is complicated by the fear of lucidity in madness, the fear of the moments of return and reunion... One would welcome chaos if one were not afraid of lights in it.

You know those movies where the people in the audience are screaming, 'Don't go in that door!' because you know the killer is there? Well, it is the same thing with this debt. We know how this ends.

I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country.

It is seldom in life that one knows that a coming event is to be of crucial importance.

Dreams sometimes foretell the future.

In an early photograph I have, part of the town goes up in flames – a premonition from the 1880s. A group of women, corseted, skirts infested with lace, watch from behind a buckboard as ash flings itself into the sky. To the right the blur of a girl rushes away like a ghost. No face. Hardly a form. Just a hat and a dress, and news of a fire, though no one is alive who knows her name.

It's not the actual crime that makes me want to leave, it's the possibility that it can happen any time, any second now, even in the next minute. That it might never happen at all, but I'll think it will happen any second now for the next ten years.

Luther padded toward the door and his tail wagged slightly before it stilled. "For real. We can smell things before they happen. And if you don't go after her, I smell failure in your future.