Top 87 Quotes About Omens
#1. Omens are a language, it's the alphabet we develop to speak to the world's soul, or the universe's, or God's, whatever name you want to give it. Like an alphabet, it is individual, you only learn it by making mistakes, and that keeps you from globalizing the spiritual quest.
Paulo Coelho
#2. He forgot that the best of omens is to unsheathe our sword in the defence of our country.
Edward Gibbon
#3. I definitely believe there is more than what can be seen. I don't know if it's anything that you'd consider omens or signs, but yes ... I believe in something more.
Shiloh Walker
#4. I want limits, damn it. I'll accept omens and portents and second sight. I'll accept giant black hounds and creepy ravens and magpies. I'm still working out the fae and Wild Hunt thing. But I draw the line at people disappearing into thin air.
Kelley Armstrong
#5. Being constantly subjected to tests of his persistence and courage. So he could not be hasty, nor impatient. If he pushed forward impulsively, he would fail to see the signs and omens.
Paulo Coelho
#6. He didn't like the way things were going.
There were bad omens in the wind, evil portents like bats fluttering in the dark loft of a deserted barn.
Stephen King
#7. We create our own omens, I think, and then mystify ourselves trying to understand their significance.
Steven Brust
#8. The mommy-porn genre currently sweeping the book industry and the Babylonian excess of most television shows probably fall within the historical norm in our culture's sleaze index and are not omens of the imminent collapse of civilization, though if I were not so busy, I might start building an ark.
Dean Koontz
#9. Omens. If I were beginning again, starting out in life, I would ignore all omens, neither heeding them nor trying to disable them. If we chose to pass them by, then perhaps they would lose their power, as old gods and goddesses, no longer worshiped, fade away and lose their grip on us.
Margaret George
#10. He clung to the story as to a vow whose abandonment might bring down on his head all kinds of grief and misfortune. He felt very alone, on an interminable day full of evil omens, and the story, though resistant to some of his intentions, was at least a testimony to reality and coherence
Jose Maria Merino
#11. It seemed incredible that this day, a day without warnings or omens, might be that of my implacable death.
Jorge Luis Borges
#12. A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the farthest brings; The eye reads omens where it goes, And speaks all languages the rose; And, striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#13. The casinos believe in math (and I don't mean numerology).They believe in the power of percentages and short pays, not in the power of magic stones, amulets and omens.
Frank Scoblete
#15. He believed in good omens and positive thoughts and happy endings to films, a trouble-free belief, because he had not considered them deeply before choosing to believe; he just simply believed.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#16. The evening pulsed with omens gentle to the eyes, and Valentina had a romantic crush on it all, like every good witch should.
Lawren Leo
#17. Out to sea, the calm lagoon waters were darkening, while the comets overhead glowed brighter, omens in the gloaming.
Julian May
#18. See them demons and them omens staring at you, mind control, they want your soul. If he don't see a dollar, somebody visiting Satan
Jay Rock
#19. The problem with omens is that they never come with an illustrated pamphlet explaining what they mean.
Dean Koontz
#20. Omens are the individual language in which God talks to you. My omens are not your omens.
Paulo Coelho
#21. I thought privately to myself that with so many omens and prophecies to warn them off, heroes were really awfully stupid to go wandering into dark caves.
Moira Katson
#22. Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.
Sun Tzu
#23. Such is the way of all superstition, whether in astrology, dreams, omens, divine judgments, or the like; wherein men, having a delight in such vanities, mark the events where they are fulfilled, but where they fail, though this happen much oftener.
Francis Bacon
#24. The Indians did not like to see anything odd
a white squirrel, for instance ... They thought such oddities were messages, were omens of evil ... And the Indians put a great deal of faith in dreams.
Karen Joy Fowler
#25. Amy Cahill didn't believe in omens. But black snow was falling, he earth was rumbling beneath her feet, her brother was meowing, and her uncle Alistair was prancing on the beach in pink pajamas. She had to admit, the signs were not promising.
Peter Lerangis
#26. Superstition in wartime takes a more powerful hold on the mind. One sees omens in everything. One is returned to a more primitive view of the world and its sign language.
Glenn Haybittle
#27. [O Ruler of Olympus, why did it please thee to add more care to worried mortals by letting them learn of future slaughters by means of cruel omens! Whatever thou hast in store, do it unexpectedly; let the minds of men be blind to their future fate: let him who fears, still cling to hope!]
Michel De Montaigne
#28. I used to believe in signs, omens, patterns, secret purpose, synchronicities.
Glen Duncan
#29. He would come to feel that history, even more than memory, distorts the present of the past by focusing on big events and making one forget that most people living in the present are otherwise preoccupied, that for them omens often don't exist.
Tracy Kidder
#30. Thus, though I learnt my fate from evil omens even before now, I have left my fatherland to embark on the ship, that so after my embarking fair fame may be left me in my house.
Apollonius Of Rhodes
#31. Prohibit omens altogether. You can best predict your future by controlling it yourself, not by trusting luck or fate to control it.
Sun Tzu
#32. Well: the day is a poem but too much Like one of Jeffers's, crusted with blood and barbaric omens Painful to excess, inhuman as a hawk's cry.
Robinson Jeffers
#33. Ancient history is oddly short on incorrect omens.
Stacy Schiff
#34. The New York art world readily proves people wrong. Just when folks say that things stink and flibbertigibbet critics wish the worst on us all because we're not pure enough, good omens appear.
Jerry Saltz
#35. If we cherish the virtues and the principles of our fathers, Heaven will assist us to carry on the work of human liberty and human happiness. Auspicious omens cheer us. Great examples are before us. Our own firmament now shines brightly upon our path.
Daniel Webster
#36. None of these things are foretold to me; but either to my paltry body, or property, or reputation, or children, or wife. But to me all omens are lucky, if I will. For whichever of these things happens, it is in my control to derive advantage from it.
Epictetus
#37. In his pursuit of the dream, he was being constantly subjected to tests of his persistence and courage. So he could not be hasty, nor impatient. If he pushed forward impulsively, he would fail to see the signs and omens left by God along his path.
God placed them along my path.
Paulo Coelho
#38. Caesar recognized the omens, but he didn't believe they applied to him.
Nate Silver
#39. Witches knew that mysterious omens were around all the time. The world was always very nearly drowning in mysterious omens. You just had to pick the one that was convenient.
Terry Pratchett
#40. Then, sometime during the fourth year, the omens will abandon you, because you've stopped listening to them.
Paulo Coelho
#41. Good Omens was written by two people who at the time were not at all well known except by the people who already knew them. They weren't even certain it would sell.
Terry Pratchett
#42. Visions! omens! hallucinations! miracles! ecstasies! gone down the American river! Dreams! adorations! illumnations! religions! the whole boatload of sensitive bullshit!
Allen Ginsberg
#43. All events became omens; I lost the ability to take anything literally.
Douglas Coupland
#44. Things which are accidentally the causes either of hope or fear are called good or evil omens.
Baruch Spinoza
#45. A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself.
Cesare Pavese
#46. 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
#47. In order to find the treasure, you will have to follow the omens. God has prepared a path for everyone to follow. You just have to read the omens that he left for you.
Paulo Coelho
#49. This field of activity generated a vast literature of carefully assembled one-line omens on this pattern: If A happened, B will happen. Here the sought-for outcome B, known as the apodosis, is deemed to be the consequence of an observed phenomenon, the protasis A. One
Irving Finkel
#50. Enter each day with the expectation that the happenings of the day may contain a clandestine message addressed to you personally. Expect omens, epiphanies, casual blessings and teachers who unknowingly speak to your condition.
Sam Keen
#51. God has a prepared path for us to follow. We just have to read the omens he has left for us.
Paulo Coelho
#52. One of the highlights of the first Good Omens tour was Neil and I walking through New York singing Shoehorn with Teeth. Well, we'd had a good breakfast. And you don't get mugged, either.
Terry Pratchett
#53. Omens are everywhere in this world you just have to find the one that fits.
Terry Pratchett
#54. I am not sure,' Mordecai told Thomas, 'whether omens can be trusted.'
'Of course they can.'
'I should like to hear your reasons. But show me your urine first.'
'You said I was cured,' Thomas protested. 'Eternal vigilance, dear Thomas, is the price of health. Piss for me.
Bernard Cornwell
#55. Omens don't influence the eradication of a evil from a society. it's all upto you when YOU want.
M.H. Rakib
#56. Omens were all very well, but sometimes it would help if people just wrote things down.
Terry Pratchett
#57. I suspect that we are all recipients of cosmic love notes. Messages, omens, voices, cries, revelations, and appeals are homogenized into each day's events. If only we knew how to listen, to read the signs.
Sam Keen
#58. 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
#60. There is something in omens.
Ovid
#61. His parents called him Youngster. They did this in the subconcious hope that he might take the hint. Wensleydale gave the impression of having been born with a mental age of 47.
Terry Pratchett
#62. But the purpose of the book is not the horror, it is horror's defeat.
Terry Pratchett
#63. She managed to come up with the kind of predictions that you can only understand after the thing has happened," said Anathema. "Like 'Do Notte Buye Betamacks.' That was a prediction for 1972.
Terry Pratchett
#64. One of the nice things about time, Crowley always said, was that it was steadily taking him further away from the fourteenth century.
Jill Thompson
#65. He looked up at them, a scruffy Napoleon with his laces trailing, exiled to a rose-trellised Elba.
Terry Pratchett
#66. A Bad Omen is a warning. A sign to stop and reconsider. Proceed with caution.
Kelley Armstrong
#67. Gabriel Walsh comes from a long line of hustlers. He's just the first one to go to law school and get a license for it.
Kelley Armstrong
#68. Some dreams matter. Most don't. Often it can be hard to know which might be which.
Dean Koontz
#69. You don't have to test everything to destruction just to see if you make it right.
Terry Pratchett
#70. Having a baby is the single mos joyous co-experience that two human beings can share, and he wasn't going to miss a second of it.
He got one of the Secret Service men to videotape it for him.
Terry Pratchett
#71. I don't see why it matters what is written. Not when it's about people. It can always be crossed out.
Terry Pratchett
#72. A skeleton, even a walking one, is at least human; Death of a sort lurks inside every living creature.
Terry Pratchett
#73. There's one thing you can say for air pollution, you get utterly amazing sunrises.
Terry Pratchett
#74. It is possibly worth mentioning at this point that Mr. Young thought that paparazzi was a kind of Italian linoleum.
Terry Pratchett
#75. It's a bad sign when someone drinks a lot and doesn't laugh.
Andres Neuman
#76. It is your omen, only you know the meaning. To me, it is but another star in the night.
Gerald R. Stanek
#77. I bet you don't have to be Spanish to be the Spanish Inquisition," said Adam. "I bet it's like Scottish eggs or American hamburgers. It just has to look Spanish. We've just got to make it look Spanish. Then everyone would know it's the Spanish Inquisition.
Terry Pratchett
#78. Sacred signs always come when your soul calls out in pain or joy.
Lawren Leo
#79. Adam looked at Them. They were his kind of people, too.
You just had to decide who your friends really were.
Terry Pratchett
#80. I should have a gun."
"And you think I can provide it?"
"Ask your biker gang buddies."
"They prefer the term 'motorcycle club.'"
"I'm sure they do.
Kelley Armstrong
#81. Sister Mary was a nurse and nurses, whatever their creed, are primarily nurses, which had a lot to do with wearing your watch upside down, keeping calm in emergencies, and dying for a cup of tea.
Terry Pratchett
#82. 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
#83. It'd be a funny old world, he reflected, if demons went round trusting one another.
Terry Pratchett
#84. Why are we talking about this good and evil? They're just names for sides. We know that.
Neil Gaiman
#85. Her niece had the parenting skills of a ... Rose didn't even know how to finish that sentence. Any creature in nature so incapable of caring for its young would have died out centuries ago.
Kelley Armstrong
#86. Say what you like. Plutonium may give you grief for thousands of years, but arsenic is forever.
Terry Pratchett
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