Quotes About Presentiments

Presentiments are strange things: and so are sympathies; and so are signs; and the three combined make one mystery to which humanity has not yet found the key.

The realm of superstitions, fortune-telling, presentiments, intuition, dreams, all this is the inner life of a human being, and all this is the hardest thing to film.

You are far too well informed a man to pretend that you don't know what little game you are playing. If you have presentiments of death, it is because of certain wishes. You desire to escape sexual impotence - impotence, in short - and you wish for death to save you from all that. It is one of the virility's favorite ploys.

No law of nature, however general, has been established all at once; its recognition has always been preceded by many presentiments.

Oh, those women! They nurse and cuddle their presentiments, and make darlings of their ugliest thoughts.

Avarice, like love, has the gift of second sight, instinctively guessing at future contingencies, and hugging its presentiments.

Give what name you like to my presentiments, but I am afraid that my happiness will be paid for by some horrible catastrophe.