Quotes About Omen

I was left with a sensation of having encountered a monster, in the ancient sense of the original Latin word, "monstrum": "an omen or warning of the will of the gods."4

the entire story is prefigured in that monologue...

Forewarned is not forearmed, it is foreshadowed.

If coming events are said to cast their shadows before, past events cannot fall to leave their impress behind them.

Behind the church lot stood a hedge of yew. He passed through the omen of its furry branches and found himself beside a noise of waters.

I think it is bad luck to put shoes on a table or walk under ladders.

The ancients often believed a celestial event like an eclipse to be a bad omen, that the sun or the moon vanishing from the sky was a harbinger of disaster, a sign of devastation or destruction to come.

By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes.   So vague, yet so immense. He did not want to live with it. Yet he knew that, during this night, unless he lived with it very well, he might have to live with it all the rest of his life.

By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. So vague, yet so immense. He did not want to live with it. Yet he knew that, during this night, unless he lived with it very well, he might have to live with it all the rest of his life.

The gym cat appears to those who will die. He is our totem. This thought came to me a few weeks ago. I shared it with no one of course.

Needless to say, urgings by ravens are ignored at one's peril.

Who taught us to bow our heads while waiting for trains? to touch lumber without regret and sing privately or not at all? To invest the season with forgiveness and coax from it a hopeful omen? Lord knows the hope would heal this little fear. But who taught us to fear?

And because death was a friend, the one man who was made to receive, like a tuning-fork, the whispering omens of fate did not recognize it, until too late.

The Coming of the Great White Handkerchief

What house would ask for Vengeance to perch heavy, defiling the rafters like some bird of ill omen?

I tell you he brought bad luck—I say it is the Evil Eye he had." Her hand shot out again in the well-known Latin gesture—the first finger and the little finger sticking out, the two middle ones doubled in.

No. Red sky at morning, sailors take warning," Lito said, looking up into the red-tinged clouds. "A storm is coming.

There, up in the sky, she noticed for the first time a gigantic mounded cloud, as large and elaborately moulded as a baroque opera house and lit from below and at the sides by pink and creamy hues. It sailed beyond her, improbable and romantic, following in the blue sky the course she was taking down below. It seemed to her that it must be a good omen.

Black cats. They kill me every time. I can just feel it when I see one. The only thing that gets me is black cats.

refused to bless a house with a cat in it.

When a portent repeats itself three times, like something out of Julius Caesar, even Caliban, a couple of plays over, is bound to notice.

It is not a good omen to meet a lot of cats when one sets out on a journey, so the Lieutenant spat three times for each cat, as his mother had taught him to do.

Perhaps poetry will be the canary in the mine-shaft warning us of what's to come.

A soothsayer bids you beware the Ides of March." —Brutus to Julius Caesar, Act I, Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare, circa 1600