Best Foreboding Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 2

“The artist, and particularly the poet, is always an anarchist in the best sense of the word. He must heed only the call that arises within him from three strong voices: the voice of death, with all its foreboding, the voice of love and the voice of art.”

Art Artist Three Strong Voice Poet Arise Anarchist Heed Foreboding

Author:Federico Garcia Lorca

“Indeed, at hearing the news that 'the old god is dead', we philosophers and 'free spirits' feel illuminated by a new dawn; our heart overflows with gratitude, amazement, forebodings, expectation - finally the horizon seems clear again, even if not bright; finally our ships may set out again, set out to face any danger; every daring of the lover of knowledge is allowed again; the sea, our sea, lies open again; maybe there has never been such an 'open sea'.”

Source: Nietzsche: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in German Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

“For the first time his mind grasped the fact that when life has sentenced you to suffer, the sentence is neither a fancy nor a threat, but you are dragged to the rack, and you are tortured, and there is no marvelous rescue at the last moment, no awakening as from a bad dream. He felt it as a foreboding which struck him with terror.”

Mind Firsts Moments Facts Dream Lasts Suffering Felt First Time Threat Terror Sentences Awakening Fancy Rescue Marvelous Racks Bad Dream Foreboding

Book:Niels Lyhne

Source: Niels Lyhne

“With a shiver of foreboding he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and social interests held together by ignorance on the one side and hypocrisy on the other.”

Together Social Sides Interest Saws Ignorance Materials Becoming Dull Hypocrisy Association Shiver Foreboding

Book:The Age of Innocence

Source: The Age of Innocence

“The old church tower and garden wall Are black with autumn rain And dreary winds foreboding call The darkness down again”

Black Church Darkness Wind Wall Rain Garden Autumn Towers Dreary Foreboding Old Churches

Author:Emily Bronte

“Stir not the bitterness in the cup that I mixed for myself,' said Denethor. 'Have I not tasted it now many nights upon my tongue, foreboding that worse lay in the dregs?”

Said Night Lays Tongue Cups Bitterness Foreboding Dregs

Book:The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings

Source: The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings

“I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy.”

Sometimes Wisdom Hope Fear Failing Leaving Hopeful Bark Steers Gloomy Foreboding

Book:Jefferson: Political Writings

Source: Jefferson: Political Writings

“Even in slight things the experience of the new is rarely without some stirring of foreboding.”

Experience Stirring Foreboding

Book:Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“"Foreboding" and "ominous" is what you're striving to achieve-not mention.”

Writing Achieve Strive Ominous Foreboding

Book:Fiction Writer's Workshop

Source: Fiction Writer's Workshop

“The teenager seems to have replaced the Communist as the appropriate target for public controversy and foreboding.”

Inspirational Seems Teenager Appropriate Target Communist Replaced Teenage Controversy Foreboding

Author:Edgar Friedenberg

“Sometimes, I must admit, I'd like to have a second guitarist onstage with me, but it wouldn't look right. I'd like to play for another 20 years, but I don't know... I just can't see it happening. I don't know why. It's a certain foreboding... a funny feeling... vultures.”

Knows Years Looks Sometimes Play Feelings Certain Happenings Guitarist Vulture Foreboding

Author:Jimmy Page

“When we lose our tolerance for vulnerability, joy becomes foreboding.”

Joy Loses Tolerance Vulnerability Foreboding

Author:Brené Brown

“You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings.”

Evil Disaster Enterprise Rejoice Commencement Foreboding

Book:Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus

Source: Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus

“Many people look upon change with dread and foreboding. But for those on the spiritual path-for those who believe in God and the power of prayer-change is a fuller expression of life. When a problem or condition arises in your life that indicates a change, rely upon God, and realize that it is not so much that a door has closed on a chapter of your life, but rather that a door has opened on new and more interesting things.”

“And if your head explodes with dark forebodings too I'll see you on the dark side of the moon.”

Ifs Sides Dark Moon Dark Side Foreboding

Author:Roger Waters

“If Big Brother (of Orwell's 1984) comes to America, he will not be a fearsome, foreboding figure with a heart-chilling, omnipresent glare as in 1984. He will come with a smile on his face, a quip on his lips, a wave to the crowd, and a press that (a) dutifully reports the suppressive measures he is taking to save the nation from internal chaos and foreign threat; and (b) gingerly questions whether he will be able to succeed.”

Ifs Heart Bigs Government Able America Faces Nations Figures Brother Succeed Presses Threat Chaos Lips Wave Crowds Reports Internals Chill Glare Quip Foreboding

Author:Michael Parenti

“It is not science that has destroyed the world, despite all the gloomy forebodings of the earlier prophets. It is man who has destroyed man.”

Men World Destruction Despite Destroyed Prophet Gloomy Foreboding

Author:Max Lerner

“Nothing is more essential in the treatment of serious disease than the liberation of the patient from panic and foreboding.”

Serious Essentials Disease Patient Illness Liberation Treatment Panic Foreboding

Author:Norman Cousins

“Man is the individualised expression or reflection of God imaged forth and made manifest in bodily form. How is it, then, I hear it asked, that man has the limitations that he has, that he is subject to fears and forebodings, that he is liable to sin and error, that he is the victim of disease and suffering? There is but one reason. He is not living, except in rare cases here and there, in the conscious realisation of his own true Being, and hence of his own true Self.”

“My feelings of revulsion and foreboding about nuclear weapons had not changed an iota since 1945, and they have never left me. Since I was 14, the overriding objective of my life has been to prevent the occurrence of nuclear war.”

Has Beens War Feelings Left Changed Weapons Nuclear Objectives Nuclear Weapons Nuclear War Foreboding Revulsion

Author:Daniel Ellsberg

“I do not allow myself vain regrets or foreboding.”

Regret Vain Foreboding

Author:Mary Boykin Chesnut