Ominous Quotes
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The word 'novel' carries, for me, a weight as ominous, all-consuming and unforgiving as any Job encountered.
— Philip Schultz
As the saturating colors of sun-life fade from sight, the ominous moon reaches out its long arm and applies the dark dyes of night.
— Daniel J. Rice
Why do waiting rooms have to be so ominous?
— Jenna Morasca
Animals like crows, owls or black cats are not ominous at all; it is the men's superstitious mind which is the inauspicious one!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
In order to go on with our lives, we are always capable of making the ominous into the merely strange.
— Tracy Kidder
For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned
— George Santayana
He liked murder. Murder and long walks had been two of his favorite things when he was younger.
— Derek Landy
The Tower trembles; the worlds shudder in their courses. The rose feels a chill, as of winter.
— Stephen King
Torak's dead.""Really?" Aunt Pol said. "Have you seen his grave? Have you opened the grave and seen his bones? — David Eddings
Thou ominous and fearful owl of death.
— William Shakespeare
Never be intimidated by what seems ominous, for BiG is only an accumulation of many smalls.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
Yet there's something ominous about turning sixty-five. Suddenly old age is not a phenomenon which will occur; it has occurred.
— Colleen McCullough
Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over.
— Arthur Erickson
To the being of fully alive, the future is not ominous but a promise; it surrounds the present like a halo.
— John Dewey
Most morally ominous: from the second you choose one event over another, you're shaping the past's meaning.
— Mary Karr
And see ominous clouds of inferiority beginning to form in her little mental sky ...
— Martin Luther King Jr.
The phone rang. Softly, in actuality, yet it seemed loud and ominous, as phones do at night in dark hotel rooms.
— Jim Thompson
But he still lingered for a moment, as if waiting for the wind to take a hand and perhaps gust him down to his car.
— Stephen King
You stupefied me. We waxed,Carnivores, late and alight
In the beaded winter. All was ominous, luminous. — John Ashbery
But do not take this responsibility lightly, my boy. The Gauntlet casts an ominous shadow.
— Casey Caracciolo
I'm wondering if there's a spell to make lightning flash in the background whenever I make an ominous resolution.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
You can't afford to make the shark look good so you do most of it with ominous music and a fin.
— Jim Howick
I turn back to Griffin. His expression is stony and unreadable, although if I had to take a wild guess, I'd say it was tending toward ominous.
— Amanda Bouchet
That is to say, nine dead beavers in a line on the sand. There was something decorative about this, but also ominous or forbidding.
— Patrick DeWitt
Is there any phrase more ominous than you need to see exactly what you've done? I couldn't think of one offhand.
— Stephen King
Bond looked at the beautiful day and smiled. And no man, not even Mr. Big, would have liked the expression on his face.
— Ian Fleming
Ren watched us as he leaned casually against the table, holding a pair of scissors. I'd never seen a classroom tool look so dangerous.
— Andrea Cremer
I like to think that I'm not as ominous in real life.
— Daniel Dae Kim
William Tavener never heeded ominous forecasts in the domestic horizon, and he never looked for a storm until it broke.
— Willa Cather
Is there a spot on earth where such a man is unknown, an ominous survival testifying to the eternal fitness of lies and impudence?
— Joseph Conrad
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.
— Melanie Crowder
Rosa is pushing all the buttons.
— Justine Larbalestier
Danny couldn't remember how many times he had driven down this particular stretch of highway.
— Mike Mehalek
Facilis descensus Averni," he whispered, his ominous and preternatural words striking her very soul. "The descent to Hell is easy.
— Sylvain Reynard
He falls asleep believing he's been robbed, not knowing that the summoning of demons is almost always unwitting.
— Dexter Palmer
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.
— Mohamed ElBaradei
The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.
— James Thurber
The only thing we know for certain is that Darquesse is coming, and she's coming to kill us all.
— Derek Landy
It was a dark story.
— Joseph Conrad
"Foreboding" and "ominous" is what you're striving to achieve-not mention.
— Josip Novakovich
Again he trailed off into ominous silence.
— Terry Brooks
Correct becomes defect. Good becomes ominous. People's delusions have certainly lasted long.
— Laozi
Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel-dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
