Foreshadowing Quotes:

By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Macbeth' (1606) act 4, sc. 1, l. 44

topic: Halloween, Wicked, Thumbs, Wicked Ways, Wicked Witch

I have learned to look upon each little hindrance as a jest and each great one as a foreshadowing of victory.

- Lucy Maud Montgomery

source: Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “ANNE SHIRLEY Complete Series - ALL 14 Books in One Volume: Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Rainbow Valley, The Story Girl, Chronicles of Avonlea and more: Including the Memoirs & Letters of Lucy Maud Montgomery”, p.635, e-artnow

topic: Victory, Littles, Looks, Foreshadowing

Beware the ides of March.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 1, sc. 2, l. 15

topic: Memorable, Autumn, March, Ides Of March, Foreshadowing

God is a novelist. He uses all sorts of literary devices: alliteration, assonance, rhyme, synecdoche, onomatopoeia. But of all of these, His favorite is foreshadowing.And that is what God was doing at the Cloisters and with Eudora Welty. He was foreshadowing. He was laying traps, leaving clues, clues I could have seen had I been perceptive enough.

- Lauren F. Winner

source: Lauren F. Winner (2002). “Girl Meets God: On the Path to a Spiritual Life”, p.58, Algonquin Books

topic: Leaving, Novelists, Use, Literary Devices, Assonance

I consider it as a foreshadowing of modernity in many different respects, and the consistency of character is interesting to the emerging modern psychology. The emphasis on dream knowledge relates quite deeply to psychoanalysis, although I suppose psychoanalysis wouldn't like to say that... Freud was always saying he was a scientist.

- Marina Warner

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Dream, Character, Interesting, Modern Psychology, Foreshadowing

To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the tongue as sweetly as when one longs to taste it, and when is the taste refracted into so many hues and savors of ripeness and earth, and when do our senses know any thing so utterly as when we lack it? And here again is a foreshadowing - the world will be made whole. For to wish for a hand on one's hair is all but to feel it. So whatever we may lose, very craving gives it back to us again.

- Marilynne Robinson

source: "Housekeeping". Book by Marilynne Robinson, 1980.

topic: Hair, Hands, Giving, Foreshadowing, Ripeness

The Resurrection is the supreme vindication of Jesus' divine identity and his inspired teaching. It's the proof of his triumph over sin and death. It's the foreshadowing of the resurrection of his followers. It's the basis of Christian hope. It's the miracle of all miracles.

- Lee Strobel

source: Lee Strobel (2010). “Case for Christ: A Journalists Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus (Large Print 16pt)”, p.306, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Christian, Jesus, Teaching, Christian Hope, Foreshadowing

From semantics to shipbuilding, from dream theory to propositional logic, any specialist ... is invariably astonished to discover that modern knowledge was foreshadowed at the time. ... Should we not replace these foreshadowings by the study of the influences of Hellenistic thought on modern thought?

- Lucio Russo

source: Lucio Russo, Silvio (translator) Levy (2013). “The Forgotten Revolution: How Science Was Born in 300 BC and Why it Had to Be Reborn”, p.228, Springer Science & Business Media

topic: Dream, Logic, Study, Foreshadowing, Semantics

As an experienced editor, I disapprove of flashbacks, foreshadowings, and tricksy devices; they belong in the 1980s with M.A.s in postmodernism and chaos theory.

- David Mitchell

source: David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.155, Random House Group

topic: Editors, Chaos, Theory, Chaos Theory, Foreshadowing

If there are words and wrongs like knives, whose deep inflicted lacerations never heal - cutting injuries and insults of serrated and poison-dripping edge - so, too, there are consolations of tone too fine for the ear not fondly and for ever to retain their echo: caressing kindnesses - loved, lingered over through a whole life, recalled with unfaded tenderness, and answering the call with undimmed shine, out of that raven cloud foreshadowing Death himself.

- Charlotte Bronte

source: Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Villette”, p.475, The Floating Press

topic: Kindness, Cutting, Clouds, Foreshadowing, Villette

There is no permanent status quo in nature; all is the process of adjustment and readjustment, or else eventual failure. But man is the first being yet evolved on earth which has the power to note this changefulness, and, if he will, to turn it to his own advantage, to work out genetic methods, eugenic ideas, yes, to invent new characteristics, organs, and biological systems that will work out to further the interests, the happiness, the glory of the God-like being whose meager foreshadowings we the present ailing creatures are.

- Hermann Joseph Muller

topic: Men, Eugenics, Ideas, Adjustment, Foreshadowing

I'm a shy, nervous person, and I don't like teaching with "terms." I didn't teach them, like, "This is first person, this is second person, this is foreshadowing," or whatever, so no one probably felt like they were learning anything. But I feel like teaching in that way reduces the concept to a term.

- Tao Lin

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Teaching, Shy, Way, Foreshadowing

Foreshadowings of the principles and even of the language of [the infinitesimal] calculus can be found in the writings of Napier, Kepler, Cavalieri, Pascal, Fermat, Wallis, and Barrow. It was Newton's good luck to come at a time when everything was ripe for the discovery, and his ability enabled him to construct almost at once a complete calculus.

- W. W. Rouse Ball

source: W. W. Rouse Ball (2012). “A Short Account of the History of Mathematics”, p.347, Courier Corporation

topic: Good Luck, Writing, Discovery, Kepler, Foreshadowing