Like anybody, I would like to have a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will.

~ Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. Foreboding Life

Nico didn’t like to be touched, but somehow this brief contact with his father felt reassuring – the same way the Chapel of Bones was reassuring. Like death, his father’s presence was cold and often callous, but it was real – brutally honest, inescapably dependable.

~ Rick Riordan

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The night stared me in the face, amorphous, blind, infinite, without frontiers. Not a single start relieved the darkness behind the glass.

~ Stanisław Lem

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I was thinking that being a demon and a ghost must be very difficult, even for Charles; if he ever forgot, or let his disguise drop for a minute, he would be recognized at once and driven away; he must be extremely careful to use the same voice every time, and present the same face and the same manner without a slip; he must be constantly on guard against betraying himself. I wondered if he would turn back to his true self when he was dead.

~ Shirley Jackson

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Love gives insight, Maggie, and insight often gives foreboding. Listen to me, let me supply you with books; do let me see you sometimes, be your brother and teacher, as you said at Lorton. It is less wrong that you should see me than that you should be committing this long suicide.

~ George Eliot

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Confidence is what we get when we take fear, face it and replace it.

~ Tim Fargo

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The desert became grim, dark and foreboding. A silence of death lay over the land, and it seemed as though the very stars held their breath and twinkled no more.

~ Alan Kinross

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To be thus is nothing, but to be safely thus...

~ William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare Dark Foreboding Psychological

The day we stop learning is the day we die.

~ Michael Scott

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I'm like my mother, she thought, I search my joy for signs of sorrow ahead.

~ Soheir Khashoggi

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As they gently lowered it into the earth, all stared silently at the coffin but one: a young woman of twenty-five who glanced absentmindedly into the distance where an unknown figure stood – watching, waiting, his face buried in the shadow of his hat. Whether by intuition or paranoia she could not tell, but the presence of the man troubled her and her eyes were fixed on his motionless body and would not stir. Tourists rarely came to a town as small and uneventful as theirs, let alone to visit a funeral where they did not introduce themselves and only beheld the spectacle from afar.

~ Renate Linnenkoper

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He needed the warmth of the sun to take away the chill of foreboding that grew in him.

~ Francine Rivers

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

~ Derek Landy

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