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Quotes About Omen

You don't destroy an omen by fighting it. No, you do the opposite. You swallow it whole.
~ Steven Erikson
Funny how the camera had so quickly lost all its depressing associations. Ari looked on this as a good omen.
~ Storm Constantine
I had two cups of coffee, put Eric's jeans in the washer, read a romance for awhile, and studied my brand-new Word of the Day calendar, a Christmas gift from Arlene. My first word of the New Year was 'exsanguinate.' This was probably not a good omen.
~ Charlaine Harris
Gabriel's malignant star was assuredly setting fast.
~ Thomas Hardy
Everything psychic is pregnant with the future.
~ C.G. Jung
When Ali Bell gives you the finger, she's telling you how many seconds you have to live.
~ Gena ShowalterShowalter
There is only one thing in criket and that is the STRATE BAT. Keep yore bat strate boy and all will be all right in life as in criket. So headmasters sa, but when my bat is strate i still get bowled is that an omen chizz, Aktually i usually prefer to hav a slosh: i get bowled just the same but it is more satisfactory.
~ Geoffrey Willans
It is not only the canary in the coal mine—it is also a crucial part of the mine.
~ George Gilder
He lived in a universe of light and peace. He was destined to be hated and betrayed by everyone. He then remembered his servants and snorted. It was the dawn of a new age, a warning and an omen! With difficulty, for the joints in his knees were painful, he stood up, rubbed the small of his back with his hands and went to his office to get the hammer and nails to close up the packing case. He took it down to the car himself: there was no need for the concierge to know what he was carrying.
~ Irene Nemirovsky
Coming events do cast shadows.
~ Iris Murdoch
It was dark now. A thin moon was visible, a bright portent, but giving no light.
~ Iris Murdoch
Arnold's 'joke' was too obscenely good not to be taken as a portent: it was the visible part of some huge invisible horror.
~ Iris Murdoch
Americans' enthusiasm for apocalyptic fantasy probably owes more to movies like The Exorcist and The Omen than to the Bible itself.
~ Susan Jacoby
Thirteen is the most sinister of all the signs./ If you want to greet a gremlin, it will do just fine.
~ Susan Weiner
I don't believe in superstition, I think it's bad luck.
~ Dan Henderson
Skulls are what people dont know to be good luck, they ward off bad.
~ A. J. McLean
That night the Mother of the Spirits walked the length and breadth of the clan, weeping for her murdered son. It was a terrible night. Not even the oldest man in Umuofia had ever heard such a strange and fearful sound, and it was never to be heard again. It seemed as if the very soul of the tribe wept for a great evil that was coming—its own death.
~ Chinua Achebe
i've come to deliver some bad luck -train heartnet
~ Kentaro Yabuki
The harbingers are come. See, see their mark;White is their color, and behold my head.
~ George Herbert
Dark wings, dark words.
~ George R.R. Martin
Dark wings, dark words, me mother used to say, but when the birds fly silent, seems to me that's even darker.
~ George R.R. Martin
Yet unbeknownst to all but a few, storm clouds were gathering on the horizon, and faintly in the distance wise men could hear a rumble of thunder.
~ George R.R. Martin
Dark wings, dark words," Ned said grimly.
~ George R.R. Martin
Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.
~ George Santayana