Ominous Quotes

Ominous Quote of the day

You stupefied me. We waxed, Carnivores, late and alight In the beaded winter. All was ominous, luminous.

For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned

The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction

Yet there's something ominous about turning sixty-five. Suddenly old age is not a phenomenon which will occur; it has occurred.

Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over.

To the being of fully alive, the future is not ominous but a promise; it surrounds the present like a halo.

Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity.

In order to go on with our lives, we are always capable of making the ominous into the merely strange.

Animals like crows, owls or black cats are not ominous at all; it is the men's superstitious mind which is the inauspicious one!

There were days when no kid came out of his house without looking around. The week after Halloween had a quality both hungover and ominous, the light pitched, the sky smashed against the rooftops.

Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel-dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.

I like to think that I'm not as ominous in real life.

Correct becomes defect. Good becomes ominous. People's delusions have certainly lasted long.

In these sad and ominous days of mad fortune chasing, every patriotic, thoughtful citizen, whether he fishes or not, should lament that we have not among our countrymen more fishermen.

The woods always look different at night...as if the daytime trees and flowers and stones had gone to bed and sent slightly more ominous versions of themselves to take their places.

Why do waiting rooms have to be so ominous?

Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is sad; later on, it is ominous.

Reality's just the accumulation of ominous prophecies come to life. All you have to do is open a newspaper on any given day to weigh the good news versus the bad news, and you'll see what I mean.

It would be, in fact, very ominous if Iraq were to be able to get weapon-usable material, hydro-plutonium or highly enriched uranium from abroad.

Thou ominous and fearful owl of death.

William Tavener never heeded ominous forecasts in the domestic horizon, and he never looked for a storm until it broke.

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

Filling life exceedingly is called ominous.

Weapons are ominous tools. They are abhorred by all creatures. Anyone who follows the Way shuns them.

Weapons are ominous tools. They are not the noble ruler's tools. He only uses them when he can't avoid it.

And see ominous clouds of inferiority beginning to form in her little mental sky.

The Earth swirls down through the ominous moons of preconsidered generations.

To me the question of the environment is more ominous than that of peace and war...I'm more worried about global warming than I am of any major military conflict.

What's needed today, now, more than ever, is 'Star Peace' for there is an ominous, mutual threat to all science fiction. It's called 'Twilight'. And it is really, really bad.

I'm wondering if there's a spell to make lightning flash in the background whenever I make an ominous resolution.

I was terrified of the Vietnam War when I was 13. I thought I was going. The draft was such an ominous thing, I felt as if it was going to trickle down to me.

You can't afford to make the shark look good so you do most of it with ominous music and a fin.

What none of them knew, of course, was that Carrie White was telekinetic.

He falls asleep believing he's been robbed, not knowing that the summoning of demons is almost always unwitting.

The villagers marked the time in two ways: before the swamp and after. What came before was good. And all that came after was not.

Have a look around, my pretty, we are surrounded by Death in all forms – just the two of us are still alive –

So, apart from casting runes, what other hobbies do you have? Forbidden rituals, human sacrifices, torturing? –

The scraps of information she’d gathered knocked against each other, like balls in a pinball machine in one of the arcades on the front. Secrets drew her in every time – the unsaid.

An eerie atmosphere leeched from the soot-damaged walls. It was as if the house had died, and yet she felt she belonged here. It was as if the old place wanted to claim her from the grave.

The phone rang. Softly, in actuality, yet it seemed loud and ominous, as phones do at night in dark hotel rooms.

Are you taking us to hell?" I ask, and Denise answers with an ominous, "More or less.

He liked murder. Murder and long walks had been two of his favorite things when he was younger.

«Per­ho­nen is not here any­more, » it says, with a voice made of wings and whis­pers.

It was a dark story.