Quotes About Omen

In many cultures, a total eclipse of the Sun predicts cataclysms and bad events.

Something's going to happen!

Myrtle can't grow in the shade. It would wither and die. Someone has made it grow in the dark." "How?" "Magic. How else?" Alcibiades shrugged, and Socrates said, "How else? That's a serious question. If you don't believe in magic, how did this sprig grow here? Perhaps the gods wanted it to. If so, they may have left it for us as a sign." "What kind of sign?" "An omen.

Perhaps he had even seen it coming from the top of the lighthouse, the Event arriving like a kind of wave. And what had manifested? What do I believe manifested? Think of it as a thorn

A spirit may come to pass along a message you may not wish to hear or even to warn you of something.

Monsters are divine portents.

You are a bird of ill-omen, thought Kelso. You circle the world and wherever you land there is famine and death and destruction: in an earlier and less credulous age, the local citizens would have gathered at the first sight of you and driven you off with stones -

When the Wolf King carries the hammer, thus are the final days known. When the fox marries the raven, and the trumpets of battle are blown.

The Stone of Tear will never fall till the People of the Dragon come.

I don't half like that, said Miss Oliver, with a sigh. It's ominous—somehow. A perfect thing is a gift of the gods—a sort of compensation for what is coming afterwards.

cut off hanging by a strip of skin. He said he knew it was the spirit of his brother and that it was a warning he would die within nine days. He didn't, but he died two years after, so you see it was really true. And Ruby Gillis says—

No, I don't want you to kiss me--yet. And our first kiss mustn't have the flavour of good-bye. It would be a bad omen. Star o' Morning, I'm sorry you're going. But I'll see you again before long.

We'd itch the vermin feasting on our flesh and share the day's many rumors: The King had declared peace. No, the King was sending German and Russian mercenaries to destroy us. A ball of fire as big as a man's head fell from heaven to Hatboro - a good omen. But there'd been an earthquake near York just as a cat gave birth to puppies, which meant the worst.

If a black black cat crosses your path, it suggests that the animal is going somewhere.

I tried not to think of this as an omen, but unwelcome thoughts enter my head all the time.

No cat is bad luck

When struck by a thunderbolt it is unnecessary to consult the Book of Dates as to the precise meaning of the omen.

La sventura si comportò secondo l'antichissimo uso delle sventure e degli avvoltoi: rimase qualche tempo sospesa su di loro, aspettando il momento opportuno per sferrare l'attacco.

May Ye All Wail, for the Destroyer of Nations is upon us. Your lands shall they trample and divide with rope. Your cities razed shall be, their dwellers expelled. The bat, owl and raven your homes shall infest, and the serpent will therein make its nest . . . Aen Ithlinnespeath     The

The dragon reared her head, breathing in the storm and loving every minute of it. It was the start of a voyage, and a storm at the beginning of a voyage was always a good omen.

In Portugal, seeing a black cat is a bad sign; it's bad luck. But they tell me if it crosses from left to right, it's good luck. But I don't like black cats!

Often I am permitted to return to a meadowas if it were a given property of the mindthat certain bounds hold against chaos,that is a place of first permission,everlasting omen of what is.

and now with horror and loathing they had seen the clouds gather once more in the quarter whence all superstition had had its birth.

I don't know...just a feeling, like in..." Xander thought for a moment. "Star Wars. You know, when Han Solo says, 'I've got a bad feeling about this'?