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Quotes About Ominous

disaster, when it is quite sure of its own strength, will announce itself by hardly moving its lips...
~ Chris Cleave
There it was, deep & huge like it'd just risen, nearly full and red orange like a blood tangerine. It felt ominous, and I'm wondering if you feel as I do - this incredible urge TO BE HEARD. Who do you talk to?
~ Chris Kraus
But the silence of those who said nothing, nothing at all, was terrible. It was the silence of those who knew they were all done for.
~ Heinrich Boll
Something terrible's coming, and everyone in the world is working to bring it on.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
Many years later he insisted, 'They knew it was the end when I was with them'; that evening, though the words remained resolutely unspoken, everyone had a clear sense of what might lie ahead.
~ Helen Rappaport
By the eyes, some will say, but I think not, really, for to the spectral tarsier in the bush, or to the owl in the churchyard tower, man and his lights must truly hold a demonic menace.
~ Leonard Everett Fisher
a sad pulse beat in the darkness. The phone had rung just as the sky began
~ Jayne Ann Krentz
The approaching storm turns the surface of the sea to steel and silver. Only danger reflects clearly from such a mirror.
~ Jayne Ann Krentz
was dark and no more inviting
~ Jean M. Auel
His vision of the future, already shadowed by anxiety, had just grown several shades darker.
~ Jeanne DuPrau
But the positive thoughts would give way to negative thoughts, and the negative thoughts seemed to swoop into her mind the way a big flock of black crows takes over the landscape, sitting thick in the trees and on the fence rails and lawns, staring at you in ominous silence.
~ Jeannette Walls
But the positive thoughts would give away to negative thoughts, and the negative thoughts seemed to swoop into her mind the way a big flock of black crows takes over the landscape, sitting thick in the trees and on the fence rails and lawns, staring at you in ominous silence.
~ Jeannette Walls
The streets were dark with something more than night.
~ Raymond Chandler
All the doors were open, all the faces were frightened; one felt that Death was there.
~ Tom Reiss
My name is Deathbringer.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
And then we heard the THUMP-THUMP-THUMP of grumpy talons stomping our way, and in comes gigantic Morrowseer, all frowning and portentous as usual.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
The sunset's fire was tangled in leaden clouds, and the pillars of rain supporting the toppling thunderheads were very close;
~ Paul Theroux
an ugly premonition
~ Danielle Steel
Never a good thing, opined Atticus nervously. Doors closing by themselves.
~ David Baldacci
Fortune Telling. You make arbitrary and disturbing predictions about the future. It's as if you had a crystal ball that only gives you bad news!
~ David D. Burns
La luna si levò sopra la prateria e sembrava succhiare via tutti i colori dal paesaggio circostante; adesso tutto appariva diverso. I cespugli lungo il letto asciutto non erano verdi ma neri e avevano un che di minaccioso.
~ David Eddings
There's something elementally horrific about waking before dawn.
~ David Foster Wallace
all feet and teeth, is a shadowy lurking presence
~ David Foster Wallace
Oh, God! I have an ill-divining soul!
~ William Shakespeare