Quotes About Imminence

Something's going to happen!

Any moment now, China was about to perspire.

They wait. For what? They do not know. But they can feel it coming. Splashed by carriage wheels, they feel it. Outside cafes, looking in, they feel it. At night, in their narrow beds, they feel it. Counting the days snubs and mocks, they feel it. And it fires them.

My future was about to happen.

classical Marxism proclaimed the imminence of world proletarian revolution, Leninism (or "Marxism-Leninism," as it became known in the Soviet Union after Lenin's death) originated in the proposition that there is no proletarian revolution except through the party.

She seemed to walk in an atmosphere of things about to happen.

But at my back I always hear Time's wingèd chariot hurrying near

It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.

I want to tell you what it was really like to think death is imminent, but I can't. It's a taste in your mouth. And an emptiness.

back into the present, back into reality; the appalling present, the awful reality – but sublime, but significant, but desperately important precisely because of the imminence of that which made them so fearful.

I drank to the imminent of His Coming, he repeated, with a sincere attempt to feel that the coming was imminent; but the eyebrow continued to haunt him, and the Coming, as far as he was concerned, was horribly remote.

Do you know what makes for a good still life? I'll tell you: it's when the painter manages to convey a sense that something is about to happen. The objects in the painting all look immobile, but as you contemplate them you begin to feel that at any moment there could be movement. Somebody might come into the room. A storm might blow up outside. The wind will move the curtains. All of these things might happen.

We should live our lives as though Christ was coming this afternoon.

I told him to plan as though Jesus is not returning for a hundred years and live as though Jesus is returning today.

and we have been told that they may come tonight

Oft times a blade across the room beyond the reach of a hand means that death is nearer. I

It was like waiting to speak in front of the class... You have to pretend to be listening, but all you can really think abou tis when it's going to be your turn.

The day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.

Any moment, it seemed, something could tear the sky and whatever was on the other sides would push through.

The extraordinary thing that is about to happen is matched only by the extraordinary moment just before it happens. Advent is the name of that moment.

Even though it was six o'clock, there was no sense of approaching dawn.

Live as if you thought that Christ might come at any time.

and every moment one expects the sky to fling a barrage from clouds so leaden they hang low across the city roofs and drown the horizon.

always squinting around the corner for the future that is already with us, at our ease, elsewhere