Quotes About Foretelling

prognostication

Even while I dreamed I prayed that what I saw was only fear and no foretelling

Coming events cast their shadows before.

Prophets are dastardly pessimists, to a man.

What's the opposite of déjà vu, when you see something that hasn't happened yet?" "I don't know—avant verrais?

an ugly premonition

One of them came to Faldor's farm once and told Durnik that he was going to die twice.

declares, "I alone know the end from the beginning" (Isa. 46:10).His message includes history written in advance. We call this prophecy.

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

some prophecies are fulfilled by the very actions meant to prevent them.

Throughout history, parents have tried to name their offspring in a manner that would foretell the trajectory of their future. It's one of the first spells humans encounter in this life. Little did your parents know what would happen today, for you, because of your name, but they blessed this day for you.

Prognostics do not always prove prophecies—at least the wisest prophets make sure of the event first.

Whenever anyone argues with you about something, just tell them it is foretold—usually works.

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.

No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would

Y dijieron uno al otro: He aquì viene el soñador.

The sky is darkening like a stain Something is going to fall like rain And it won't be flowers

There had never been a death so foretold.

Know, he that foretells his own calamity, and makes events before they come, twice over, doth endure the pains of evil destiny.

A legend can just as well be founded in the future as in the past. It's called a 'prophecy,' Urruah said. You may have heard of the concept.

Yezonkai's train at this time, there was a certain old astrologer named Sugujin. He was a relative of Yezonkai, and also his principal minister of state. This man, by his skill in astrology, which he applied to the peculiar circumstances of the child, foretold for him at once a wonderful career. He would grow up, the astrologer said, to be a great warrior. He would conquer all

I have this weird, bad feeling," said another boy. "In my feeling parts. Like something bad is going to happen.

In doubt, fear is the worst of prophets.

It was ordained at the beginning of the world that certain signs should prefigure certain events.