Quotes About Imminence

The worm was yet to come - to say nothing of the thirty thousand bicycles.

Xamã uma vez ou outra ouvia os ecos amedrontadores da iminência da guerra nos Estados Unidos.

V.V. sought to express something, which until expressed had only a twilight being (or even none at all--nothing but the illusion of the backward shadow of its imminent expression). It was Ada's castle of cards. It was the standing of a metaphor on its head not for the sake of the trick's difficulty, but in order to perceive an ascending waterful or a sunrise in reverse: a triumph, in a sense, over the ardis of time.

I shall be there before the commencement.

show up soon, too. Supposedly, he had the final plans

Any moment now, I thought, he was going to wake up. Any moment.

You frighten me, when you say there isn't time. I don't see why. Christians have been expecting the imminent end of the world for millennia. But it keeps not ending. So far, so good.

There's always a calm before the storm...

The present is pregnant with the future.

Soon. Soon. Soon. Soon. When is Soon? What a terrible word: Soon. Soon can mean in one second, Soon can mean in one year. Soon is a terrible word. This Soon compresses the future, shrinks it, offers no certainty, no certainty whatever, it stands for absolute uncertainty. Soon is nothing and Soon is a lot. Soon is everything, Soon is death…

Nunca a vida foi tão atual como hoje: por um triz é o futuro

Tudo o que está para vir, já aí está.

On my way. Nearly there! These were their last foolish (and often misspelled) words. Madeline

Five tender apricots in a blue bowl, a brief and exact promise of things to come.

I can go at any time now. -Arnie tells Becky

There is a silence in the imminence of animals and also in the echo of their noise, but the dread silence is the one that rises from a wilderness from which all the wild animals have gone.

You know these things. — And yet, somehow, you never think it will be today.

How close they all were, without knowing it, to disaster. All the time.

No one knows the day or the hour.

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.

We do not know when he is coming. He is coming tomorrow.

He will come quickly; let this word be always sounding in our ear

Yes. No. Maybe. Elsewhere. Soon.