Bad Omen Quotes

That's bad luck: three on a midget. From "At The Circus

The other day a dog peed on me. A bad sign.

Let not thy divining heart Forethink me any ill; Destiny may take thy part, And may thy fears fulfill.

He knockin' on the door, let the devil in.

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?

A genuine coincidence always means bad luck for me; it's my only superstition.

The ancients often believed a celestial event like an eclipse to be a bad omen, that the sun or the moon vanishing from the sky was a harbinger of disaster, a sign of devastation or destruction to come.

I never hear the rattling of dice that it does not sound to me like the funeral bell of the whole family.

I used to refer to myself as Typhoid Mary. It wasn't that I was jinxed, I just seemed to bring ill fortune to anybody I was close to.

That girl will rain destruction down on you and your ship. She is an albatross, Captain. Way I remember it, albatross was a ship's good luck, 'til some idiot killed it. [to Inara] Yes, I've read a poem. Try not to faint.

I'm an unlucky charm... don't go anywhere with me.

I never root for a failure. I learned that when we were on 'Felicity.' There was a show that failed on the lot, and suddenly all of this food showed up on our set. I was, like, 'What is this?' And they said, 'Oh, they cancelled this other show right before their lunch.' And I said, 'Throw that food away! We don't want to touch that food! There's no way I'm eating it!' So I never root for anybody, because it could happen to you in two seconds.

Apparently, there's a little red demon dwarf that haunts the city, and before every major bad thing that's happened, it's appeared to somebody. Last time, he appeared in a Cadillac.

It was an overcast late November morning, the grass splintered by hoarfrost, and winter grinning through the gaps in the clouds like a bad clown peering through the curtains before the show begins.

My first word for the New Year was 'exsanguinate.' This was probably not a good omen.

When someone asks to sign on the money I always refuse. Bad omen.

No horse named Morbid ever won a race.

It's not really a good sign when your audience applauds Satan.

They who see the Flying Dutchman never, never reach the shore.

They who talk much of destiny, their birth-star, etc., are in a lower dangerous plane, and invite the evils they fear.

Have you ever had one of those days when something just seems to be trying to tell you somebody?

I think it is bad luck to put shoes on a table or walk under ladders.

I have a terrible superstition of writing things down.

There's a bad moon on the rise.

Filling life exceedingly is called ominous.