Quotes About Omen

Readers know full well that when a writer takes pains to tell them a character doesn't expect the worst, she's about to get it.

The day was one of those early Spring days that for some mysterious reason, very hard to analyse, are felt to be ill-omened and unpleasant. Something was certainly wrong with this day! All animal nerves felt it. All human nerves felt it. All living things were irritable, restless, disturbed; sick without being sick; sad without being sad; annoyed without any apparent cause for annoyance!

foreshadowing is the storytelling companion of fate.

The bull has been killed, sweating the last of its blood into dust and dark bronze bowls. It went quietly to its death, a good omen for the games to come.

It is the first day of November and so, today, someone will die.

Some people exude their futures, good or bad.

When a nation or family is about to flourish, there are sure to be happy omens; and when it is about to perish, there are sure to be unlucky omens.

My divine sign indicates the future to me.

It is seldom in life that one knows that a coming event is to be of crucial importance.

Luther padded toward the door and his tail wagged slightly before it stilled. "For real. We can smell things before they happen. And if you don't go after her, I smell failure in your future.

A rooster crowing in a doorway means visitors are coming. An old Scottish superstition. The

During this time he got news that a famous statue of Orpheus, enshrined in south Macedon, had started to sweat profusely. The seers, pondering the omen, decided that the new King's exploits would give the poets work.

Maybe nothing's so unfunny as an omen read wrong.

Romano Pontífice, guárdate de acercarte A la ciudad regada por dos ríos: Tu sangre vendrá allí cerca a esputar, Cuando florezca la rosa, tú y los tuyos.

Great beauty seems invariably to portend some tragic fate.

Sabah örümcekleri mutlulu?a, ak?am örümcekleri zenginli?e alamettir.

The bullet that will kill me is not yet cast.

The two reeked of wyrd.

Coming events cast their Shadows before them. —Winston Churchill

After there is great trouble among mankind, a greater one is prepared. The great mover of the universe will renew time, rain, blood, thirst, famine, steel weapons and disease. In the heavens, a fire seen

In our plays, if the Cthaeh's tree is shown in the distance in the backdrop, you know the story is going to be the worst kind of tragedy. It's put there so the audience knows what to expect. So they know everything will go terribly wrong in the end.

For the king of Babylon stands at the fork in the road, at the junction of the two roads, to seek an omen: He shakes the arrows, he consults the idols, he examines the liver.

It will seem like a false omen to the eyes of those who have sworn allegiance to him, but it will draw attention to their guilt and take them captive.