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Foreshadow Quotes

9 quotes from 5 authors

Only nine reflections on foreshadowing make this a compact but potent showcase, each line a quiet cue that hints at what’s to come. If you crave richer pools, the Drama, Literature, and Storytelling pages hold larger archives of similar anticipatory wisdom.

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“Biographies should also contain the events that failed to foreshadow.”

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All partings foreshadow the great final one.

Charles Dickens

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“This year, of course, being 1936, there would be no figs.”

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Every great drama has its foreshadow.

William Shakespeare

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“The shining light of Logres shone as high and clear as ever, but as a candle flares before it gutters out.”

Rosemary Sutcliff

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When writing a novel, I'm not smart enough to know how to foreshadow something if I don't know what it is.

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“Ah, mais c'est Anglais ca," he murmured, "everything in black and white, everything clear cut and well defined. But life, it is…

Agatha Christie

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“The morning was one peculiar to that coast. Everything was mute and calm; everything gray. The sea, though undulated into long roods…

Herman Melville

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“Foreshadow, plot buster or red herring... only time will tell: P69 -- Cassie waited; in the evening light through the window her…

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