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Quotes About Omens

He is offended, it seems, so the omens say, at the treatment of his dedicated servant. Chryses." Agamemnon's shoulders were rigid.
~ Madeline Miller
It's all right not to believe in luck and omens. Nobody believes in them. But it doesn't do any good to take chances with them and no one takes chances.
~ John Steinbeck
It was ordained at the beginning of the world that certain signs should prefigure certain events.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Astrologers that future fates foreshow.
~ Alexander Pope
despite the efforts of ancient writers to embellish them with dramatic appearances of the gods, uncanny omens and prophetic dreams – the reality of the surroundings was probably mundane. For us, 'to cross the Rubicon' has come to mean 'to pass the point of no return'. It did not mean that to Caesar.
~ Mary Beard
I am no believer in visions or omens. After all, I would sooner fancy that I was dreaming - dreaming with my eyes open as I stood at the window - than that I beheld the shadows of the dead.
~ Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Animals like crows, owls or black cats are not ominous at all; it is the men's superstitious mind which is the inauspicious one!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
To be on the left is to believe that the omens of catastrophe are omens of prosperity.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
So many evils by Satan's prince will be committed that almost the entire world will find itself undone and desolated. Before these events, many rare birds will cry in the air, 'Now! Now!" and sometime later will vanish
~ Nostradamus
One for sorrow, two for joy. So they said when I was a child, but there were fewer Magpies then.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Already several prophecies of ours have applied to insignificant trifles, and what rests upon dreams is apt to be vain. (The Circle of Myths: Cyrus)
~ Otto Rank
See a woman pale as snow? Silent come and silent go. What's their plan? What's their plan? Chandrian. Chandrian.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Omens, stars, roses, seasons, bodies and their most intricate love paths.
~ Paul Valery
Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, practices divination or conjury, interprets omens, practices sorcery,
~ Deuteronomy 18:10