Top 79 Omen Quotes
#1. 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.
Angie Sage
#2. Dabbling in astrology is like carrying a lucky rabbit's foot as an omen of good luck which costs us very little and might have some beneficial effects.
Fred Singer
#3. Every month there is a moon, gigantic, round, heavy, an omen. IT transits, pauses, continues on and passes out of sight, and I see despair coming towards me like famine. To feel that empty, again, again. I listen to my heart, wave upon wave, salty and red, continuing on and on, marking time.
Margaret Atwood
#4. A Bad Omen is a warning. A sign to stop and reconsider. Proceed with caution.
Kelley Armstrong
#5. He was invaded by an unreasoning calm, which he interpreted as an omen that nothing new was going to happen, that everything he had done in his life had been in vain, that he could not go on: it was the end.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#6. I perceive two things in Scotland of the most fearful omen: ignorance of theological truth, and a readiness to pride themselves in and boast of it.
Edward Irving
#7. But, for a little while, this is the place for us
a good place too
a place of good omen, a place of beginning things
and of ending things I never thought would end.
Beryl Markham
#8. the involuntary loss of any familiar object almost always brings a chill as from an evil omen; it seems to be the first finger-shadow of advancing death. From
George Eliot
#9. Among Negroes it is a bad omen when someone knocks on the door of a house where a person has died.
Ethel Waters
#10. [W]omen under phallocratic rule are confined to the role of vessels/carriers, directed and controlled by men. Since that role is the basic base reversal of the very be-ing of Voyaging/Spiraling women, when we direct our own Crafts/Vessels we become reversers of that deadly reversal.
Mary Daly
#12. In every country is a word which attempts the sound of cats, to match an inisolable portrait in the clouds to a din in the air. But the constant noise is not an omen of music to come.
Lyn Hejinian
#13. Nellie looked into the forest and decided she was totally a city girl. It looked grim and foreboding. Her red hoodie seemed like an omen. "But Granny told me to never, ever stray off the path.
Sarwat Chadda
#14. 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
#15. On our second date, she kissed me in a bar. I invited her home. We just caught the F train, which seemed like a good omen.
Alison Bechdel
#16. The child taught to believe any occurrence a good or evil omen, or any day of the week lucky, hath a wide inroad made upon the soundness of his understanding.
Isaac Watts
#17. 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 ...
Selma Lagerlof
#18. It is a very ill omen to hear a wicked world clap its hands and shout "Well done" to the Christian man.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#19. With The Omen, I really felt I wasn't in control. It was panic.
Richard Donner
#20. Any sign that the newbie regarded his or her time as of any value whatsoever was a bad omen,
Hope Jahren
#21. The whole world is an omen and a sign. Why look so wistfully in a corner? Man is the Image of God. Why run after a ghost or a dream? The voice of divination resounds everywhere and runs to waste unheard, unregarded, as the mountains echo with the bleatings of cattle.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#22. Waves crack with wicked fury against me ship's hull while ocean currents rage as the full moon rises o're the sea."
(Cutthroat's Omen: A Crimson Dawn)
John Phillips
#23. When struck by a thunderbolt it is unnecessary to consult the Book of Dates as to the precise meaning of the omen.
Ernest Bramah
#24. I love 'The Omen,' just as a piece of plotting.
Greg Rucka
#25. If you fall apart, it's a bad omen for the rest of the couples on Earth.
Ashlan Thomas
#27. That's the kind of culture I belong to: people took their child's black complexion as an ill omen.
Junot Diaz
#28. I cut a loaf of bread, and there wasn't any bread, Is this an omen?
Miguel
#29. All superstition is much the same whether it be that of astrology, dreams, omen, retributive judgment, or the like, in all of which the deluded believers observe events which are fulfilled, but neglect and pass over their failure, though it be much more common.
Francis Bacon
#30. The Exorcist doesn't get me, but The Omen does.
Ethan Embry
#31. The next day the stock market crashed. Hemmingway didn't quite understand what
it all meant, but from the way the white people in town were running around like
chickens without heads, she took it as an omen.
Bernice L. McFadden
#32. A dismal omen: ... this morning a woman handed me a dollar bill that was translucent from age, as soft and warm as living tissue.
Kathleen Maher
#33. All primitive people are frightened of owls,' said Harley. 'The villagers here are scared to death of the gufo. Birds of ill omen. If they see one, they think they'll die. But they never do. See one, I mean, of course,' he added with a laugh.
Francis Brett Young
#34. One omen is best; Defending the fatherland
Homer
#36. This was it. Together. Forever. As we left it all behind, the sun warmed my back, lighting the way before us. I knew of no better omen.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#37. 'The Omen,' 'The Exorcist,' those movies for me are the quintessential horror movies that still scare me as an adult.
Fede Alvarez
#38. A good thing? Or a strong omen ... Only time would tell what these newfangled neutrons and fission reactions would give to our ever-changing world.In all probability,this new scientific birth would change all of our lives forever and perhaps end the brutal war we were now engaged in?
Will Leamon
#39. Possible then the professor inited a little too emphatically upon the inferiority of omen, he was concerned not with their inferiority, but with his superiority.
Virginia Woolf
#41. Maybe nothing's so unfunny as an omen read wrong.
Michael Herr
#42. We give each other a wide berth even if we have the flu, let alone ... So, I think that's part of the stigma that people who have diseases suffer. It's almost infectious ... if somebody is closer to death, they're almost a bad omen and I think that's terrible.
Peter Morgan
#43. Roy Keane is Damien, the devil incarnate off the film The Omen. He's evil. Even in training.
Ryan Giggs
#44. The stars are reflected from within the black water in the cistern. I find comfort in the omen I glean from this: light in the darkness, truth when it seems there is none.
Alice Hoffman
#45. [W]omen will never be taken seriously until they accept full responsibility for their sexuality.
Camille Paglia
#46. Factual information alone isn't sufficient to guide you through life's labyrinthine tests. You need and deserve regular deliveries of uncanny revelation. One of your inalienable rights as a human being should therefore be to receive a mysteriously useful omen every day of your life.
Rob Brezsny
#47. To a novelist, fluidity is the ultimate good omen; suddenly difficult problems are simply solved, intractable structural knots loosen themselves, and you come upon the key without even recognizing that this is what you hold.
Zadie Smith
#48. 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
#49. 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 -
Robert Harris
#51. Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.
Homer
#52. It seemed like whatever I touched, I was breaking record after record. I just knew I was on. I completely destroyed all existing shooting records there - an omen of things to come.
Wilt Chamberlain
#53. Don't let a stranger that comes to you leave empty handed without food, water, shelter, or word of encouragement. Whether you believe in God or s**t, it's a bad omen when you let a stranger that came to you left empty handed.
Uzoma Nnadi
#54. Oh I love horror movies, yeah. I think my favorite movie growing up was 'The Omen.' I actually wanted to be that little kid.
Norman Reedus
#55. The vixen I met at twilight on Route 5 south of Willoughby: long dead. She was an omen to me, surviving, herding her cubs in the silvery bend of the road in nineteen sixty-five.
Adrienne Rich
#57. Arms are instruments of ill omen, not the instruments of the gentleman. When one is compelled to use them, it is best to do so without relish.
Laozi
#58. I tried not to think of this as an omen, but unwelcome thoughts enter my head all the time.
Abigail Thomas
#60. One of your inalienable rights as a human being should be to receive a mysteriously useful omen every day of your life. - Rob Brezsny
Jake Ducey
#61. It is your omen, only you know the meaning. To me, it is but another star in the night.
Gerald R. Stanek
#62. employer, and might that not be a good omen of what
Madison Grace
#63. 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.
Mary Renault
#64. I remind myself that not everything is a sign, that some things simply are what they appear to be and should not be analyzed, deconstructed, or forced to bear the burden of metaphor, symbol, omen, or portent.
Diane Schoemperlen
#65. One omen is best, to fight in defense of one's country.
Homer
#66. Yes I remember my sixteenth." Vitellius said "Wonderful omen! Happily chicken in my underpants."
"Excuse me.
Rick Riordan
#67. Midnight Omen Deja vu - Because everyone should experience love in the Caribbean ... at least once in a lifetime.
Marti Melville
#68. Of the big horror movies of the '70s, you have 'The Omen,' 'The Sentinel,' 'Rosemary's Baby,' 'The Stepford Wives,' 'Burnt Offerings' - these are all romantic fatalist movies where there's a sort of glimmer of hope ... but darkness wins.
Chuck Palahniuk
#69. Boy, there's nothing worse than an inscrutable omen.
Bill Watterson
#70. As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.
Oscar Wilde
#71. Tristan, I can tell you that every man I ever envied when I was a boy has led an unremarkable life. So you don't fit with the popular crowd. Now, I take that as a very good omen.
Neil Gaiman
#72. Pandora's Box could not be unopened, no one could return to Eden.
Selena Kitt
#73. In a shadowy place something white flew up. It was a heron, and it went away over the dark treetops. William Wallace followed it with his eyes and Brucie clapped his hands, but Virgil gave a sigh, as if he knew that when you go looking for what is lost, everything is a sign.
("The Wide Net")
Eudora Welty
#74. It was dark now, and broodingly sluggish. Like something supine waiting to spring, with just the tip of its tail twitching. Leaves stood still on the trees. An evil green star glinted in the black sky like a hostile eye, like an evil spying eye.
("For The Rest Of Her Life")
Cornell Woolrich
#75. 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.
Confucius
#77. There is something in omens.
Ovid
#79. The visions are fragmented and a dark cloud spreads like spilt ink across the pages of possible futures.
Garth Nix
