Most Ominous Quotes

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

Freya Stark

#2. This massive ascendancy of corporate power over democratic process is probably the most ominous development since the end of World War II, and for the most part "the free world" seems to be regarding it as merely normal.

Wendell Berry

#3. A dramatic, evocative, thoughtful and very accessible account of one of the most important stories of the century - and one of the most ominous, unless citizens are aroused to action to rein in abusive state power.

Noam Chomsky

#4. Pakistan's ruler Pervez Musharraf predicted the Taliban will fall for hiding Osama bin Laden. Ex-king Zahir Shah is standing by to replace Mullah Mohammed Omar. And the most ominous sign of all, President Bush has learned all their names.

Argus Hamilton

#5. I know not, but strained silence, so I deem,
IS no less ominous than excessive grief.

Sophocles

#6. Most morally ominous: from the second you choose one event over another, you're shaping the past's meaning.

Mary Karr

#7. Nothing beats a haunted moonlit night on All Hallows Eve ... And on this fatal night, at this witching time, the starless sky laments black and unmoving. The somber hues of an ominous, dark forest are suddenly illuminated under the emerging face of the full moon.

Elizabeth Kim

#8. In the town, children go down on their backs in the drifted snow and move their arms and, when they rise, leave behind them impressions, mysterious and ominous, of winged creatures.

John Gardner

#9. Forever ... ' he smiled at me, expectant, knowing I knew the end of the ominous sentence. I grinned and waited a whole minute before responding ' ... and always'.

Mercy Cortez

#10. All the color had been leached from Winterfell until only grey and white remained. The Stark colors. Theon did not know whether he ought to find that ominous or reassuring. Even the sky was grey. The eyes of the bride were brown. Big and brown and full of fear.

George R R Martin

#11. They're waiting for you. Go on in." Adrian leaned close to Keith's ear and spoke in an ominous voice. "If.You.Dare." He poked Keith's shoulder and gave a "Muhahaha" kind of monster laugh.

Richelle Mead

#12. To say she was my girlfriend was absurd: no one the wrong side of thirty has a girlfriend ... I suppose I ought to have realize it's ominous that forty thousand years of human language had failed to produce a word for our relationship.

Robert Harris

#13. But the war outside refused to be ignored for long. Antiaircraft guns rattled. Shrapnel skittered like claws across the roof. The bombs drew closer until their reports were followed by lower, more ominous sounds - the dull thud of walls collapsing.

Ransom Riggs

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

Eliezer Yudkowsky

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

Willa Cather

#16. Science unfolded her treasures and her secrets to the desperate demands of men, and placed in their hands agencies and apparatus almost decisive in their character. Reflecting on the outcome of World War I, and an ominous future.

Winston Churchill

#17. ominous and disquieting. It seemed that the evil power in Mirkwood had

J.R.R. Tolkien

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

Dexter Palmer

#19. 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.

Jose Saramago

#20. Like a black pirate flag on the blue ocean of air, a hawk hung ominous; then, plummet-wise, dropped to the hedgerow, whence there rose, thin and shrill, a piteous voice of squealing. By

Kenneth Grahame

#21. For those who fear to die, death walks behind them like an ominous shadow. But for those who embrace it, death casts a gentle eye upon that person.

Charles Lee

#22. Sometimes a light glimmered out of the physician's eyes, burning blue and ominous, like the reflection of a furnace, or, let us say, like one of those gleams of ghastly fire that darted from Bunyan's awful doorway in the hill-side, and quivered on the pilgrim's face.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

Jim Howick

#24. And the sense of security, even the most warranted, is a bad councillor. It is the sense which, like that exaggerated feeling of well-being ominous of the coming on of madness, precedes the swift fall of disaster.

Joseph Conrad

#25. It was dark now, and broodingly sluggish. Like something supine waiting to spring, with just the tip of its tail twitching. Leaves stood still on the trees. An evil green star glinted in the black sky like a hostile eye, like an evil spying eye.
("For The Rest Of Her Life")

Cornell Woolrich

#26. 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

#27. Never has good weather felt so bad. Never have flowers inspired so much fear. Never has the warm caress of a sunbeam seemed so ominous. The weather is sublime, it's glorious, it's the end of the world.

Joel Achenbach

#28. 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.

Dylan McDermott

#29. As a matter of fact, he was anxious and scared because of the complete senselessness and algorism of the situation, of slight but obvious sense of ominous mysteriousness and mysticism in all that.

Sergey Mavreodi

#30. That treacherous little black heart that sits behind my ribs, as always when I think of her, begins to beat to a slow and ominous rhythm, betraying me so cruelly that I wish I could rip it from my chest and be free of it forever.

J.A. Redmerski

#31. 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

#32. 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

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

Laozi

#34. The problem with real life is there's no musical score. In movies, you know you're in danger because there's an ominous chord underlining the scene,

Sue Grafton

#35. Why do waiting rooms have to be so ominous?

Jenna Morasca

#36. Increasingly, I wonder if there are any outrages that would be sufficiently ominous in their effects upon liberty and unequivocal in their moral perversity to awaken the American people to the tyrannical spirit that envelopes the Clinton White House.

Alan Keyes

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

Jim Thompson

#38. If the law can be broken it will. Anyone who breaks the law is a risk. You can break the law. So you see, I have to take you in for questioning. This produce stand has an ominous future.

Benson Bruno

#39. This is the thing no one prepares you for where disaster are concerned. There is no ominous black cloud, no spooky chill, no neon sign that flashes: Stop! Please! Go back to bed! There's something really really dreadful waiting to happen around the corner! I beg of you, do not continue!

Sarah-Kate Lynch

#40. Never be intimidated by what seems ominous, for BiG is only an accumulation of many smalls.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#41. 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.

Jonathan Lethem

#42. The only thing we know for certain is that Darquesse is coming, and she's coming to kill us all.

Derek Landy

#43. Sunday morning may be cheery enough, with its extra cup of coffee and litter of Sunday newspapers, but there is always hanging over it the ominous threat of 3 P.M., when the sun gets around to the back windows and life stops dead in its tracks.

Robert Benchley

#44. On the political as on the economic front it's important not to fall into the "not as bad as" trap. High unemployment isn't O.K. just because it hasn't hit 1933 levels; ominous political trends shouldn't be dismissed just because there's no Hitler in sight.

Paul Krugman