Foreboding Quotes

“The day we stop learning is the day we die.”
― Michael Scott, The Warlock

“Confidence is what we get when we take fear, face it and replace it.”
― Tim Fargo

“This book is called "Blue Nights" because at the time I began it I found my mind turning increasingly to illness, to the end of promise, the dwindling of the days,the inevitability of the fading, the dying of the brightness. Blue nights are the opposite of the dying of the brightness, but they are also its warning.”
― Joan Didion, Blue Nights

“He liked murder. Murder and long walks had been two of his favorite things when he was younger.”
― Derek Landy, Dark Days

“To be thus is nothing, but to be safely thus...”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“Love gives insight, Maggie, and insight often gives foreboding. Listen to me, let me supply you with books; do let me see you sometimes, be your brother and teacher, as you said at Lorton. It is less wrong that you should see me than that you should be committing this long suicide.”
― George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

“He needed the warmth of the sun to take away the chill of foreboding that grew in him.”
― Francine Rivers, A Voice in the Wind

“Dis-moi, Sophie,' she said, admiring the glow of candlelight on silk. 'What are a few drops of blood?”
― Gita Trelease, Enchantée

“Sometimes one feels suddenly doomed by fate.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince

“In the fairytales, when the knight in shining armor is killed defending his fair maiden, she brings him back to life with a magical kiss, and they live happily ever after.
But this wasn’t that sort of fairytale.”
― Gwen Mitchell, Veil of Thorns

“The desert became grim, dark and foreboding. A silence of death lay over the land, and it seemed as though the very stars held their breath and twinkled no more.”
― Alan Kinross, Longinus The Vampire: Babylon

“How can we not be dooms to each other?”
― Iris Murdoch, The Sacred and Profane Love Machine

“There will come a time of fire and night, when enemies rise and empires fall, when the suns themselves begin to die.”
― Kevin J. Anderson, Of Fire and Night

“He imagines the plane exploding as it touches down, ignited by one of its glints, in a ball of red flame shadowed in black like you see on TV all the time, and he is shocked to find within himself, imagining this, not much emotion, just a cold thrill at being a witness, a kind of bleak wonder at the fury of chemicals, and relief that he hadn't been on the plane himself but was instead safe on this side of the glass, with his faint pronged sense of doom.”
― John Updike, Rabbit at Rest

“I did not like the look of him at all. Something significantly ill-omened which I could not yet define emanated from him.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince

“There are more wicked things on this earth than the Specter King. You only have to know where to look.”
― Tony Del Degan, The Plight of Steel

“A plague rides on the air here. The smell of rot! This is Doal's realm. Can't you feel it? The keep is doomed, don't you see? No, I will not pass through this gate. There is a disease in there I will not touch.”
― Kaoru Kurimoto, The Leopard Mask

“I saw Byzantium in a dream, and knew that I would die there. That vast city seemed to me a living thing: a great golden lion... I felt the dread jaws close on me as I stood screaming.

Then I awoke; but my waking brought neither joy nor relief. For I rose not to life, but to the terrible certainty of death. I was to die, and the golden towers of Byzantium would be my tomb. ~ Aidan”
― Stephen R. Lawhead, Byzantium

“She standing there looking me straight in the eye. She look tired and her jaws full of air.
I say it's cause I'm a fool, I say. I say it cause I'm jealous of you. I say it cause you do what I can't.
What that? she say.
Fight. I say.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“I closed my eyes, but that didn't blur the images his words had evoked. "Oh, God," I murmured.
"God," he said, "had nothing to do with it at all.”
― Jeannette de Beauvoir

“It is like you to have thought of such a beautiful thing."

Not a thing, only an ending," said Helen rather sadly; and the sense of tragedy closed in on Margaret again as soon as she left the house.”
― E.M. Forster, Howards End

“Something new prowled these floors, something that sucked the space into its lungs and pressed up against people's eyeballs. She felt the darkness and told herself she could walk away from it, forgetting how difficult it is to run from that which you cannot see coming.”
― Angela Panayotopulos, The Wake Up

“For Ben, this all had a sinister feeling, the feeling of a darker time about to begin.”
― Sandra Newman, The Heavens

“The way you'd know Vetinari was keeping an eye on you would be by turning around very quickly and seeing no one at all.”
― Terry Pratchett, Going Postal

“A dark shape parts the clouds above and passes over eastern kingdoms, soaring unceasingly and stopping for none. It is coming here, Castian Valinor, and it is coming for you.”
― Tony Del Degan, The Plight of Steel

“... daylight crept through the trees like an army of crafty boys.”
― Tom Franklin

“The only thing we know for certain is that Darquesse is coming, and she's coming to kill us all.”
― Derek Landy