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Quotes About Ominous

The night has a capacity for terror that the day can never match.
~ David Gemmell
she was the human equivalent of a storm cloud.
~ David Sedaris
Now that Otoko had heard about the night at Enoshima, that old love flared up ominously within her. Yet in those flames she could see a single white lotus blossom. Their love was a dreamlike flower that not even Keiko could stain.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
Human life is insignificant. What's ominous is the movement of the spheres. When I settled here, a sun speck sat on the doorjamb at two in the afternoon. Thirty-six days passed. The speck jumped to the next room. The earth had completed another leg of its journey. The little sun speck, a child's plaything, reminds us of eternity.
~ Unknown
A HUGE cloud with the outline of South America loomed over the city. The cloud itself was luminous, but the shadow it cast was ominous. The shadow was moving astronomically slowly toward Babichev's street.
~ Unknown
Whatever Brett Favre does, it's a sign of the apocalypse.
~ Forrest Griffin
Reality was beginning to become very shadowy and menacing.
~ Unknown
fangosa. El paisaje es agresivo, y reina en él un silencio de muerte. Al atardecer, sin embargo
~ Horacio Quiroga
Y el silencio fue tan fúnebre para su corazón siempre aterrado, que la espalda se le heló de horrible presentimiento.
~ Horacio Quiroga
It was a rainy Monday afternoon, and nothing about the day so far boded anything but ill for the rest of the working week.
~ Ian Rankin
There's something oh so terrifying about The End.
~ Unknown
Behold a people shall come from the north, and a great nation. They shall hold the bow and the lance; they are cruel and will not show mercy; their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride upon horses every one put in array, like a man to the battle.
~ Conn Iggulden
She thrust out her arms wide, in strange ritual of triumph, as Mimi Brissard had in Paris. She was a black, ominous death-cross against the starlight for a moment. Then she turned slowly, her eyes two green phosphorescent pools, toward where the helpless secret service man lay. ("I'm Dangerous Tonight")
~ Cornell Woolrich
It was male, of course; menace is always male. ("Nightmare")
~ Cornell Woolrich
Then without any warning the car stopped. They were there. "The ride's over," someone said. "End of the ride." For a moment nobody got out. They just sat there. The driver cut the ignition, and after that there was silence. Complete, uncanny silence, more frightening than the most threatening noise or violence could have been. Night silence. A silence that had death in it. ("The Number's Up")
~ Cornell Woolrich
There were three of them in the room now, where only two had first come in. Death was in the room with the two of them.
~ Cornell Woolrich
Walt, we need to go over a few things." This had an ominous tone to it. "There was a time when this particular lifestyle had its place, the grieving widower valiantly sallying forth through a sea of depression and cardboard. This gave way to the eccentric lawman era, but now, Walt my friend, you are just a slob." I
~ Craig Johnson
Two days until Halloween, or, as the not-so-gentle folks in Crossroads, Mississippi, liked to say…two days until hell came calling.
~ Unknown
The hills had looked friendly in the sunshine, but in this wild weather their aspect had changed. They were not so much unfriendly as indifferent – old, grim and enigmatical. They made one feel that human life was a precarious thing. They made one feel helpless and ephemeral as a butterfly. It was a horrible feeling
~ D.E. Stevenson
Dont you know... I'm the boggyman."-St. Dane
~ D.J. MacHale
Very near Auch, Lectoure, and Mirande, great fire will fall from the sky for three nights. A most stupendous and astonishing event will occur. Very soon afterwards, the earth will tremble.
~ Nostradamus
I was imbued from a very early age with a sense of doom.
~ Ruth Rendell
I was terrified of the Vietnam War when I was 13. I thought I was going. The draft was such an ominous thing, I felt as if it was going to trickle down to me.
~ Dylan McDermott
You don't forget the feeling of stepping through a door and understanding in some unexplainable way that death has walked in before you.
~ Unknown