Foreboding Quotes

The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.

Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.

All events became omens; I lost the ability to take anything literally.

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.

Nobody gets excited about the future at all, ever. The future is something we find depressing and worrisome.

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.

Never did tombs look so ghastly white. Never did cypress, or yew, or juniper so seem the embodiment of funeral gloom. Never did tree or grass wave or rustle so ominously. Never did bough creak so mysteriously, and never did the far-away howling of dogs send such a woeful presage through the night.

The thing I fear most is fear.

I'm driven by fear.

Public fear isn't something to be played with.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

We are readying ourselves to enter a long tunnel full of blood and darkness.

I have... a dark look in my eyes, I guess.

The tempest threatens before it comes; houses creak before they fall.

Thou ominous and fearful owl of death.

I'm not really good with predicting.

To him who is in fear everything rustles.

The future is dark, which is the best thing the future can be, I think.

Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination... a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there's still time to influence how that future will play out.

Fear is fear of fear, I think.

Fear is a real thing.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Horror by definition is the emotion of pure revulsion. Terror of the same standard, is that of fearful anticipation.

There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.

Fear is one of those really primal emotions which you don't want to have incredibly exciting modulations and complex harmonies and all that kind of stuff.