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Quotes About Ominous

Other than a sign I saw once that said, 'Beware' in letters made of dead monkeys, the 'Lucky Smells Lumbermill' sign was the most disgusting sign on earth.
~ Lemony Snicket
I'm afraid the engine is quite dead," Mr. Poe called out. "And before long," Stephano muttered to the children, "you will be too." "I'm sorry," Mr. Poe said. "I couldn't hear you.
~ Lemony Snicket
The feeling was that just when things seemed all right, something bad was about to happen.
~ James Scott Bell
Prepare yourself for something dreadful.
~ Jane Austen
You're scared now, I can smell it... Benito Ramirez
~ Janet Evanovich
It would be, in fact, very ominous if Iraq were to be able to get weapon-usable material, hydro-plutonium or highly enriched uranium from abroad.
~ Mohamed ElBaradei
The ability to be frightening with stillness is what appeals to me.
~ Tony Todd
you're all gonna die because of me." Holden
~ Tim Lebbon
The House sat between a casino called, ominously enough, Bet Your Life, and a soul-modification parlor (slogan: When you've done everything to your body that you possibly can) called Spiritus Mutatio.
~ Tim Waggoner
Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over.
~ Arthur Erickson
The computer has always been this ominous, scary thing that came into music, for me, in the early '90s, right when I first started playing music.
~ Tim Commerford
I think doing The Improv is a little more ominous than doing a college campus because it was so different than anything I'd done.
~ Mick Foley
It was an ill-omened place. Death walked there in the sunlight.
~ Oscar Wilde
You know how it feels right before a tornado hits? I mean when the sky's still clear, but the wind's starting to cool off and change direction. You know something's coming, but you don't always know what. That's how things feel to me right now. -Zoey Redbird
~ P.C. Cast
She has an eye like a man-eating fish
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Outside, the sleet had gotten thicker. You could hear it pebbling against the large glass windows, you could see it swirling wildly through the spotlights of street lamps. It was the kind of night when you might expect to see a skeleton flying through the air, its ragged black shroud flapping in the wind.
~ Dan Chaon
It looked as if a night of dark intent was coming, and not only a night, an age. Someone had better be prepared for rage.
~ Robert Frost
He is here. There is the sweet perfume of death in the air.' He drew a deep breath. 'I love it even more than the smell of fresh quimmy.
~ Wilbur Smith
He noticed, without understanding, how the flames were visible now against the dull light. Evening was come, not with calm beauty but with the threat of violence
~ William Golding
He says the beast comes out of the sea. The last laugh died away. Ralph turned involuntarily, a black, humped figure against the lagoon. The assembly looked with him, considered the vast stretches of water, the high sea of beyond, unknown indigo of infinite possibility, heard silently the sough and whisper from the reef
~ William Golding
There had stood a great house in the centre of the gardens, where now was left only that fragment of ruin. This house had been empty for a great while; years before his—the ancient man's—birth. It was a place shunned by the people of the village, as it had been shunned by their fathers before them. There were many things said about it, and all were of evil. No one ever went near it, either by day or night. In the village it was a synonym of all that is unholy and dreadful.
~ William Hope Hodgson
The immutable, awful quiet of a dying world.
~ William Hope Hodgson
The moon made horns, the sky was gnarly. The cults were skittish.
~ China Mieville
How to explain... that the warning signs were so slight ? That disaster, when it is quite sure of its own strength, will announce itself by hardly moving its lips?
~ Chris Cleave