Presentiment Quotes

23 quotes by 19 authors

Man carries the world in his head, the whole astronomy and chemistry suspended in a thought. Because the history of nature is charactered in his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a deep presentiment of the powers of science. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Desire is the presentiment of our inner abilities, and the forerunner of our ultimate accomplishments. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What's important is the way we say it. Art is all about craftsmanship. Others can interpret craftsmanship as style if they wish. Style is what… — Federico Fellini
That politician who curries favor with the citizens and indulges them and fawns upon them and has a presentiment of their wishes, and is skillful… — Plato
I am gay on the outside, especially among my own folk (I count Poles my own); but inside something gnaws at me; some presentiment, anxiety,… — Frederic Chopin
Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance. — Honore de Balzac
I see the origin of the irresistible attraction of metaphor and analogy, the explanation of our strange and permanent need to find similarities in things.… — Roger Caillois
Poetry is a presentiment of the truth. — Anna Kamienska
But when a man draws a lifeless thing into his passionate longing for dialogue, lending it independence and as it were a soul, then there… — Martin Buber
That which we know is but little; that which we have a presentiment of is immense; it is in this direction that the poet outruns… — Philibert Joseph Roux
If only it were possible for us to see farther than our knowledge reaches, and even a little beyond the outworks of our presentiment, perhaps… — Rainer Maria Rilke
An enthusiastic desire of visiting the Old World haunted me from early childhood. I cherished a presentiment, amounting almost to belief, that I should one… — Bayard Taylor
Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Although I have felt compelled to write things down since I was five years old, I doubt that my daughter ever will, for she is… — Joan Didion
When I was still quite young I had a complete presentiment of life. It was like the nauseating smell of cooking escaping from a ventilator:… — Julian Barnes
The perfect weather of Indian Summer lengthened and lingered, warm sunny days were followed by brisk nights with Halloween a presentiment in the air. — Wallace Stegner
Twin primes: pairs of prime numbers that are close to each other, almost neighbors, but between them there is always an even number that prevents… — Paolo Giordano
Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment… — Joan Didion
Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its… — August Strindberg

Who Wrote These Presentiment Quotes

19 authors contributed a total of 23 Presentiment Quotes as follows: