John Donne Quotes

Future events cast their shadow before them.

The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.

My mother watched the skies at evening for a portent of the morrow. A cloud that went over and then turned around and came back was an especially bad sign.

If I'd had any way of knowing that things were- as Lily Tomlin once said- going to get a whole lot worse before they got worse, I'm not sure how I would have slept that night.

I must have been one of the least surprised people on earth on September 11. I felt very braced for that. I knew something like that was going to come.

I went to a fashion show, and this silver-haired guy was staring at me with these piercing water-blue eyes. It scared me because I absolutely saw and knew my entire future.

I did feel like they were telling me that something like that was going to happen. Not specifically - not that planes were going to be flown into the World Trade Center or anything like that - but in the general sense.

A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.

It's true that I have very little idea what I shall be writing next, but at the same time I have a powerful premonition of everything that lies ahead of me, even ten years ahead.

From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn't know exactly what.

I do like the idea of consequence and how our actions play themselves out, but I am completely scared of knowing what the future would be like. I would never go near a fortune teller, even though it's probably not even real. I just don't wanna know.

Apparently, there's a little red demon dwarf that haunts the city, and before every major bad thing that's happened, it's appeared to somebody. Last time, he appeared in a Cadillac.

History is but the unrolled scroll of prophecy.

We can fear things into existence. Fear looks into the future and imagines the worst that can happen.

I have never met an intelligent optimist. That is not to say I think pessimism makes you intelligent, but I have always felt like an Old Testament Jeremiah or Cassandra from ancient Greece. I want to run down the streets warning people.

Foreknowledge is a wonderful thing.

Methinks we have a clue. Be still, my heart.

Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace the day's disasters in his morning face.

For the less even as for the greater there is some deed that he may accomplish but once only; and in that deed his heart shall rest.

In time you shall see Fate approach you In the shape of your own image in the mirror.

I knew it. I knew it. Born in a hotel room - and God damn it - died in a hotel room.

As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.

I am not going to say I told you so, but I did.

Why was I chosen?' 'Such questions cannot be answered,' said Gandalf. 'You may be sure that it was not for any merit that others do not possess. But you have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.