Quotes About Foretelling

Indeed, the hereditary gift of prophecy will go to the grave with me. ~ Nostradamus

I shall omit former particulars, and begin with informing the Reader, that, in 1792, I was strangely visited, by day and night, concerning what was coming upon the whole earth.

A prediction is but an explanation in advance.

like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic.

Earthshaking fire from the center of the Earth will cause tremors around the New City. Two great rocks will war for a long time, then Arethusa will redden a new river.

I find by my calculations, which are according to revealed inspiration, that the sword of death is now approaching us, in the shape of pestilence, war more horrible than has been known in three lifetimes, and famine.

From the calm morning, the end will come when of the dancing horse the number of circles will be nine.

Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.

Okay, I'm guessing you're gonna give us the bad news first because there's no good news?

Great events have sent before them their announcements.

History is but the unrolled scroll of prophecy.

Macbeth shall never vanquish'd be untilGreat Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hillShall come against him.

We've read the back of the book, we know what's going to happen.

Prophesying is lying professionally.

The easiest kind of prophecy," he said, "is the kind that predicts things that have already happened.

And for some reason, men and women who told the tale often found a need to add almost identical words. The storm is coming, they said, staring southward in worry. The storm is coming.

The very first thing Elaida had ever Foretold, while still an Accepted—and had known enough even then to keep to herself—was that the Royal line of Andor would be the key to defeating the Dark One in the Last Battle.

The Stone of Tear will never fall till the People of the Dragon come.

The same kind of things as the rest. A sword that isn't a sword, a golden crown of laurel leaves, a beggar's staff, you pouring water on sand, a bloody hand and a white-hot iron, three women standing over a funeral bier with you on it, black rock wet with blood—

But who wants to be foretold the weather? It is bad enough when it comes, without our having the misery of knowing about it beforehand.

He who has spilt blood and he who has drunk blood,' the girl said, her head still lowered, 'shall pay in blood. Within three days one shall die in the other, and something shall die in each. They shall die inch by inch, piece by piece… And when finally the iron-shod clogs wear out and the tears dry, then the last shreds will pass. Even that which never dies shall die.

Prophecy is an intercept from the mind of an all-knowing and all-seeing and all-powerful God.

Indeed, the hereditary gift of prophecy will go to the grave with me.

Well, with prophecy you got to see what happens.