Presentiment Quotes
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Desire is the presentiment of our inner abilities, and the forerunner of our ultimate accomplishments.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
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 day behold the scenes, among which my fancy had so long wandered.
Bayard Taylor
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Because in the midst of happiness there is always a seed of unhappiness; it consumes itself like fire--it can't burn forever, sooner or later it must die; and this presentiment of the end destroys my happiness when it is at is height.
August Strindberg -
Man passes; he knows that he is dust; nothing is more evident than his frailty. If he should for a single moment forget it, what a chorus of voices would recall it to him! And yet, in the drop of existence which he absorbs, he takes in ages through memory and ages through presentiment. In the moments as they pass, he dimly sees eternity, and more than this, he possesses it by anticipation.
Charles Wagner -
Poetry is a presentiment of the truth.
Anna Kamienska -
Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance.
Honore de Balzac