Quotes About Imminence

Daylight does not lend itself to terror: objects and people are plain to see; and we encounter there only those things which dare to show themselves in the glare of day. But night, opaque night denser than walls, night, empty and infinite and so black and fathomless that terrifying things reach out and touch us, night when we feel horror stirring, mysteriously prowling?night seemed to him to hide some unknown, imminent, threatening danger. What could it be?

The telephone about to ring.

I love catching a snapshot of something that is just about to happen. Or maybe something that just happened, you know. But I like especially that just-before kind of feeling.

I always loved twilight: it was the only time I had the feeling that something important could happen.

Death is so close, always, a breath away

Evil arrives faster than it departs.

We're five minutes away." He

Spring's imminence was a comfort akin to a favourite piece of music playing quietly in the background, all of the time.

For you yourselves know that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night. 1 Thessalonians 5:2

a pause so heavy it wasn't just pregnant but ready to break its waters and deliver.

The Judge is before the door: he that cometh will come, and will not tarry: his reward is with him.

The air around them shimmered with a sense of immenence.

Shadows pulsed on the edge of my vision; I experienced a great feeling of imminence. It was like wings over my head; wings I knew too well.

Little time, little time, little time, sang the rhythm of the pounding hooves.

Anders knew he would soon lose his father, and that impending loss seemed more concrete now, more real, not like air but like a door or a wall, something you could bang against, bang into, and of course children know they will lose their parents, they know it from early on, but most are able to believe that that particular present will not come, that it is years away....

Ninguno de ellos sabía por qué estaban allí o lo que harían, pero sabían que tenían que esperar, y que la hora se acercaba

Ends happen fast, and often arrive before you've been warned they're coming.

I just don't know what's going to happen. All I know is that whatever it is it's got to happen. Next week.

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.

you can feel something in the air, the rolling boil of a pot about to run over. Not

Let's let the bombs go I'm tired of waiting

Ancak ölüm kibrini uyand?rabiliyordu. Onu orada buradakilerden daha çok insan bekliyordu.

We didn't know what to expect. Where will he sleep? What's he going to eat? Are there any girls for him? It was like the imminent arrival of Gargantua; preparations had to be made to widen the gutters of Denver and foreshorten certain laws to fit his suffering bulk and bursting exstasies.

The rise of the West is, quite simply, the pre-eminent historical phenomenon of the second half of the second millennium after Christ. It is the story at the very heart of modern history. It is perhaps the most challenging riddle historians have to solve. And we should solve it not merely to satisfy our curiosity. For it is only by identifying the true causes of Western ascendancy that we can hope to estimate with any degree of accuracy the imminence of our decline and fall.