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Quotes About Ominous

The sun was already declining and each of the trees held a premonition of night.
~ E.M. Forster
"Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil!—prophet still, if bird or devil!"
~ Edgar Allan Poe
The faces of them all gather blackness.
~ Anonymous
The king of terrors.
~ Anonymous
There were three ravens sat on a tree,They were as black as they might be.The one of them said to his mate,"Where shall we our breakfast take?"
~ Anonymous: Ballads
leafless trees stand atop slag heaps like skeleton hands shoved up from the underworld.
~ Anthony Doerr
He had entered a veritable miasma of evil, and harm, in the worst possible way, was to come to us all too soon.
~ Anthony Horowitz
There was something wrong about the house in Eastfield Terrace. Something unpleasant.
~ Anthony Horowitz
She had no human side. For the next few minutes, she said nothing, sitting at my table like some sort of malevolent Buddha, unmoving and imperious, letting me sweat it out as I wondered what was going to happen next.
~ Anthony Horowitz
But I have a feeling Regina Morrow may be in for big trouble!
~ Francine Pascal
Starlight displaced just enough of the night to charge each shadow with menace.
~ Frank Herbert
The door could not be heard slamming; they had probably left it open, as is the custom in homes where a great misfortune has occurred.
~ Franz Kafka
Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky.
~ Bram Stoker
but nothing upset and preoccupied him like the phrase whatever they dread most, that will happen. It seemed more than a simple curse; there was the ring of something presaging and prophetic about it, it was the sort of thing Jesse would say.
~ Ron Hansen
Ainsi tourne le monde à travers la nuit énormément menaçante et silencieuse.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
All summer it feels as if it will rain soon. All summer the strange feeling, 'something will break.
~ Luke Davies
It was a dark and stormy night.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
I've heard that in the moments before an earthquake, all nature falls completely silent. Birds alight and stop chirping, squirrels stop running, rivers stop flowing. I don't know if this is true or not, but that's what the meeting felt like at that moment. An eerie, unnatural quiet before something awful.
~ Ann M. Martin
For Ben, this all had a sinister feeling, the feeling of a darker time about to begin.
~ Sandra Newman
This is the thing no one prepares you for where disaster are concerned. There is no ominous black cloud, no spooky chill, no neon sign that flashes: Stop! Please! Go back to bed! There's something really really dreadful waiting to happen around the corner! I beg of you, do not continue!
~ Sarah-Kate Lynch
The deep-cover team had chosen the apartment building because it was the biggest along Feaver's route to and from the office. Large was better, more an ominous. Living undercover, she was supposed to avoid making new acquaintances, since even the friendliest inquiries my trip you up
~ Scott Turow
I find it intolerable that this lord is out there going about his depravities unhindered. I was hoping you might know some way to deal with the man." "Oh, Yes," James said with a dark, ominous smile. "I can think of a few ways." "Short of killing him, that is," Derek felt it prudent to add. James said nothing for nearly ten seconds, then, "If you insist.
~ Johanna Lindsey
It felt ominous to me - the aestheticized girliness, infatuation and weakness.
~ Elif Batuman
Not for fifty years, the old sailors tell us, had so great a mass of ice and icebergs at this time of the year been seen so far south. The pleasure and comfort which all of us enjoyed upon this floating palace, with its extraordinary provisions for such purposes, seemed an ominous feature to many of us, including myself, who felt it almost too good to last without some terrible retribution inflicted by the hand of an angry omnipotence.
~ Archibald Gracie