Terry Pratchett Quotes

There is something in omens.

Learn to recognize omens, and follow them

Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.

I believe in numbers and signs.

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.

A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.

I had a great grandmother who believed in so many strange superstitions. She used to tell the future from the things that catch on to the hem of your skirt when you've been sewing, and different colored threads would mean different things... Of course, all that influenced me quite a lot as a child.

My mother watched the skies at evening for a portent of the morrow. A cloud that went over and then turned around and came back was an especially bad sign.

All events became omens; I lost the ability to take anything literally.

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.

First a piece of Irish wisdom: you should always listen to a bookie. For they have a saying, 'Money tells a good story,' and somewhere in their odds is a kind of science-fiction existentialism that decrees that we, the people, know everything. In other words, betting patterns often make for good, unconscious soothsaying.

My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool.

I do have rituals. I'm a fairly superstitious person.

Hopefully it'll give us a bit of luck on the night, but I'm not really a superstitious person.

I'm a little bit superstitious, and I think that just comes from playing hockey. I won't avoid the number thirteen. A big one for me, though, is walking under a ladder. I've always felt like that's tempting fate. That's just throwing it right in their face. Check me out. I just walked under a ladder. What are you going to do about it?

The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.

Do you know what a Palmist once said to me? She said: will you let go!

Frankly, I'll believe in horoscopes the day I can describe my personality to an astrologer and they tell me what date I was born.

Men may know many things by seeing; but no prophet can see before the event, nor what end waits for him.

I used to believe in signs, omens, patterns, secret purpose, synchronicities.

I do like the idea of consequence and how our actions play themselves out, but I am completely scared of knowing what the future would be like. I would never go near a fortune teller, even though it's probably not even real. I just don't wanna know.

Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, accomplished.

I'm cursed with the gift of foresight.

See what you have to ask yourself is what kind of person are you? Are you the kind that sees signs, sees miracles? Or do you believe that people just get lucky?