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Quotes About Ominous

In an effort to find an explanation, he or she might attribute the ominous feelings to poisons, electromagnetic radiation, evil forces, secret organizations, or even extraterrestrial influences. The spontaneous emergence of memories involving intrauterine disturbances or of the onset of the delivery from the womb, seems to be among important causes of paranoid states.
~ Stanislav Grof
Silence then, ominous, neither heavy nor light, the vast silence of a dirigible before the static spark.
~ Michael Chabon
Yes, well, irony is no protection when you can feel the breeze from his scythe on your skin and hear the rustle of his wings.
~ Michael Gruber
The note took long moments to fade and, when it had at last died away, there was an absolute hush over the world, the milling millions were still, there was an air of expectancy. And then the White Lords came.
~ Michael Moorcock
I'm a very sinister person.
~ Claire Denis
My dad had a retail business in Leavenworth, Kansas, and there's a whole bunch of prisons there, so it was a backdrop of my childhood, these ominous prisons sitting off the road.
~ Eric Stonestreet
He looked like he came out of nightmare alley.
~ Bob Dylan
We're down to nine hours." "Until?" Scout asked. The Keep was expressionless. "Something bad happens." "Right," Scout said, as if she completely understood. "Bad.
~ Bob Mayer
Más vil que un lupanar, la carnicería rubrica como una afrenta la calle. Sobre el dintel una ciega cabeza de vaca preside el aquelarre de carne charra y mármoles finales con la crueldad de un ídolo
~ BORGES JORGE LUIS
Never did tombs look so ghastly white. Never did cypress, or yew, or juniper so seem the embodiment of funeral gloom. Never did tree or grass wave or rustle so ominously. Never did bough creak so mysteriously, and never did the far-away howling of dogs send such a woeful presage through the night.
~ Bram Stoker
If ever a face meant death, if looks could kill, we saw it at that moment.
~ Bram Stoker
And then there was silence, deep, awful silence, which chilled me.
~ Bram Stoker
Just as I had come to this conclusion I heard a heavy step approaching behind the great door, and saw through the chinks the gleam of a coming light. Then there was the sound of rattling chains and the clanking of massive bolts drawn back. A key was turned with the loud grating noise of long disuse, and the great door swung back.
~ Bram Stoker
It is the eve of St. George's Day. Do you not know that tonight, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will have full sway?
~ Bram Stoker
I had a character disorder. When I got my diagnosis it didn't sound serious, but after a while it sounded more ominous than other people's. I imagined my character as a plate or shirt that had been manufactured incorrectly and was therefore useless.
~ Susanna Kaysen
bare trees with black clots of rookeries
~ Sylvia Plath
The sky was becoming iron, and the trees seemed to rustle uneasily at an unfelt wind, murmuring to one another, Weather is coming.
~ Tanith Lee
Leopardo Chenti was drinking from a crystalc up and had turned from him, and so Romulan glanced at Mercurio. That face had grown ominously demure.
~ Tanith Lee
The darkness at the sides of the road. It possesses neither form nor name, but whoever passes here knows when it comes out and follows after and sends shudders like rippling streams down his back.
~ Tarjei Vesaas
They weren't wearing their handy-dandy I'm an Evil Demon T-shirts; nevertheless, I could tell they were coming for me.
~ Julie Kenner
When they come, they come from above.
~ Justin Cronin
The clouds around us are strange, roiling and twisting even though there doesn't seem to be any sign of a storm. Worse, the sky has taken on an orange cast, like the setting sun, only it's too early for that.", FADE by Kailin Gow
~ Kailin Gow
There's a temple to a dark god or some such in the basement. I'll be there." "Ah, yes…that can happen if one doesn't keep an eye on the drains…
~ Kaja Foglio
He'll just snap his fingers and turn us to dust.
~ Brandon Mull