Quotes About Foreshadowing

'The Sixth Sense' was a very enjoyable, successful movie despite the fact that there were plenty of people, including myself, who saw the ending coming.

the Law of Inevitable Occurrence. In layman's terms, this law states that some things simply have to happen. If there's a red button on a console with the words don't push taped above it, someone will push it. If there's a gun hanging conspicuously above Chekhov's fireplace, someone is going to end up shooting it (probably at Nietzsche).

Tonight started innocently enough. Most terrible things do, right?

I can tell you, it's going to end badly; these Asiatics are all like this. After a good pull of young wine, the knife-play begins!' We mounted our horses and galloped home.

The unexpected is not always a surprise. —Mentat observation

Dude, your husband is gonna die!

The Four Horsemen whose Ride presages the end of the world are known to be Death, War, Famine, and Pestilence. But even less significant events have their own Horsemen. For example, the Four Horsemen of the Common Cold are Sniffles, Chesty, Nostril, and Lack of Tissues; the Four Horsemen whose appearance foreshadows any public holiday are Storm, Gales, Sleet, and Contra-flow.

He is a reader, and what he believes in is narrative construction. If a gun appears in act one, that gun had better go off by act three.

If a gun appears in act one, that gun had better go off by act three.

Es menos satisfactorio un giro si se ve venir? ¿Un giro que no podemos prevenir es síntoma de mala construcción? Hay que plantearse estas cosas al escribir.

Ramsay Bolton: If you think this has a happy ending, you haven't been paying attention.

Organic writers are never directionless because we can always work on scenes that fulfill the promises we've made earlier in the story or go back and foreshadow the fulfillment of promises we think of as the story takes shape.

When I was old enough to know better, I ate a bar of soap in the shape of the Muppets' Fozzie Bear, because I loved him so much I wanted to consume him, even if doing so made me ill. I didn't yet know the word 'foreshadowing.' Fozzie was the only first of many pop-culture icons I feel shaped by.

I like to think I'm the canary down the mine for people.

Here we must recognize that the ceremonial law by design is never intended to be an end in itself. It always is prophetically and typically forward-looking, anticipating the coming of the Redeemer and the finalization of salvation through his work. The ceremonial law foreshadowed the eternal truths of Christ's work.

One must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one is thinking of firing it. —Anton Chekhov, Letter to Alexander Lazarev-Gruzinsky

Coming events do cast shadows.

There's this pressure to perform in your twenties - I think it comes from this whole generational foreshadowing that presumes there will be a whole other layer of things to worry about in your thirties.

Nightmares are seldom a foreshadowing of real events, but always a showing of real fears.

when the doorbell rang, there was no sense of foreboding—no dimming of the sun, no foreshadowing of the arrival of death at their door.

preprandial

If you think this has a happy ending, you haven't been paying attention.

Yet unbeknownst to all but a few, storm clouds were gathering on the horizon, and faintly in the distance wise men could hear a rumble of thunder.

Jesters do often prove prophets.