Presentiment Quotes

We hear the haunting presentiment of a dutiful middle age in the current reluctance of young people to select any option except the one they feel will impinge upon them the least. - Gail Sheehy

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 in gratifying them, he is esteemed a great statesman. - Plato

No law of nature, however general, has been established all at once; its recognition has always been preceded by many presentiments. - Dmitri Mendeleev

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 very peak. - August Strindberg

For so long, I felt like a walking open wound everywhere I went. There's this Joan Didion quote about being afflicted from an early age with a presentiment of loss. Did I come into the world like that? Or was I kind of gifted that? - Michelle Williams

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified. - Ralph Waldo Emerson