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Quotes About Ominous

With The Omen, I really felt I wasn't in control. It was panic.
~ Richard Donner
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.
~ Augustus Sol Invictus
made them so terrifying, like a wholly malevolent space creature from a sci-fi movie.
~ Jon Ronson
It seemed incredible that this day, a day without warnings or omens, might be that of my implacable death.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Fireworks in the background like an incongruous soundtrack, either celebratory or ominous, a veil of smoke behind a neighbor's house, the air askew with booms.
~ Ada Limón
I'm your nightmare. Did you think you were done with nightmares, now you've become one?
~ Poppy Z. Brite
The future is kind of a bleak place.
~ Jason O'Mara
The seller of lightning rods arrived just ahead of the storm.
~ Ray Bradbury
There, on the precipice of earth, a small steam feather uprose like the first of a storm cloud yet to come.
~ Ray Bradbury
By night the wires on the high poles tell evil tales in the dripping mist.
~ Ray Bradbury
There was going to be a war on Earth. He went out to peer into the sky. Yes, there it was.
~ Ray Bradbury
She was savage and superb, wild-eyed and magnificent; there was something ominous and stately in her deliberate progress. And in the hush that had fallen suddenly upon the whole sorrowful land, the immense wilderness, the colossal body of the fecund and mysterious life seemed to look at her, pensive, as though it had been looking at the image of its own tenebrous and passionate soul.
~ Joseph Conrad
It was a dark story.
~ Joseph Conrad
of the earth flowed somber under an overcast sky—seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness.
~ Joseph Conrad
Is there a spot on earth where such a man is unknown, an ominous survival testifying to the eternal fitness of lies and impudence?
~ Joseph Conrad
And the sense of security, even the most warranted, is a bad councillor.  It is the sense which, like that exaggerated feeling of well-being ominous of the coming on of madness, precedes the swift fall of disaster. 
~ Joseph Conrad
Gimme eat, I said," he ordered loudly in harsh tones that rumbled ominously through the silent tent like claps of distant thunder.
~ Joseph Heller
They come. Sooner than I'd thought, more than I'd even begun to fear. They come looking for death. And Death is psyched to see 'em.
~ Joss Whedon
El día en que se acaben los grillos, el mundo se llenará de los gritos de las ánimas santas y todos echaremos a correr espantados del susto.
~ Juan Rulfo
There is something ominous about a swift river, and something thrilling about a river of any kind. The nearest upstream bend is a gate out of mystery, the nearest downstream bend a door to further mystery.
~ Wallace Stegner
Wohin gehen wir denn?" "In den Keller." "schloss Schattenhall hat einen Keller?" "Natürlich", sagte Homunkoloss. "Jedes unheimliche Schloss hat einen Keller" (S. 402)
~ Walter Moers
That can't be good. If something has a nickname, that means it's big and being talked about. Not good at all.
~ James Dashner
Thomas's mouth dried up—he'd seen them face to face, remembered it all too well; he had to remind himself to breathe. The others in the room were still; no one made a sound. Fear seemed to hover in the air like a blizzard of black snow.
~ James Dashner
La oscuridad [...] parecía presionar en la ventana desde fuera, con promesas de que algo malo iba a llegar.
~ James Dashner