Omen Quotes
59 quotes by 47 authors
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Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.
— Sun Tzu
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My first word for the New Year was 'exsanguinate.' This was probably not a good omen.
— Charlaine Harris
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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…
— Robinson Jeffers
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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…
— Paulo Coelho
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It seemed incredible that this day, a day without warnings or omens, might be that of my implacable death.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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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…
— Beryl Markham
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I remember once going to see him [Ramanujan] when he was lying ill at Putney. I had ridden in taxi-cab No. 1729, and remarked that…
— G. H. Hardy
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The Exorcist doesn't get me, but The Omen does.
— Ethan Embry
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There is something in omens.
— Ovid
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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…
— Sam Keen
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When struck by a thunderbolt it is unnecessary to consult the Book of Dates as to the precise meaning of the omen.
— Ernest Bramah
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Maybe nothing's so unfunny as an omen read wrong.
— Michael Herr
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Ancient history is oddly short on incorrect omens.
— Stacy Schiff
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The other me, who did not mean to drown herself, went under the sea and remained there for a long time. Eventually she surfaced near…
— Edna O'Brien
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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…
— Rob Brezsny
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It's important to make an effort under any circumstance - stagnant, sickness, being in an unstable lifestyle, even when society is insane. You should consider…
— Masaaki Hatsumi
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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…
— Francis Brett Young
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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…
— Wilt Chamberlain
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All events became omens; I lost the ability to take anything literally.
— Douglas Coupland
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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…
— Sam Keen
Who Wrote These Omen Quotes
47 authors contributed a total of 59 Omen Quotes, led by these top contributors: