The Omen Quotes

“I fear the good because it will go away … I fear the bad because I'm too weak to withstand it.”
― David Seltzer, The Omen

“They were all helpless. They didn't ask to be born and they didn't ask to die. They were made to. But why, in between, did there have to be such pain? Perhaps humankind was more amusing that way. Perhaps they provided entertainment”
― David Seltzer, The Omen

“There was uncertainty in the air, a feeling that life was suddenly fragile.”
― David Seltzer, The Omen

“... When the Jews return to Zion. And a comet fills the sky. And the Holy Roman Empire rises. Then you and I ... must die.”
― David Seltzer, The Omen

“...for she had scratched the surface of her fears, and found beneath it a bottomless pit of anxiety and despair. The life she led was fraught with confusion, and she felt she no longer knew who she was. She remembered who she used to be and what she once wanted, but that was all gone now, and she could envision no future. The simplest things filled her with fear... She was coming to the point where she simply could not cope, and the act of getting through each day required continual courage.”
― David Seltzer, The Omen

“...he had felt an urge to talk, to tell him things he had told no one before. But what good would it do? The deception was something he had to live with, a fact of life. And yet he longed for someone else to know.”
― David Seltzer, The Omen

“Ever looked into them eyes?" asked Horton. "It's the same as lookin' into an animal's. They just watch. They wait. They know somethin' you don't know. They been someplace you never been.”
― David Seltzer, The Omen

“I think you're being a little hard on yourself. The girl was deranged."
"And so am I," whispered Katherine, "if being in the limelight means so much to me.”
― David Seltzer, The Omen

“I don't really know if the fear revolves around motherhood, or emotional attachment, or simply the belief that she's inadequate. Unable to handle the job.”
― David Seltzer, The Omen

“He was helpless. They were all helpless. They didn't ask to be born and they didn't ask to die. They were made to. But why, in between, did there have to be such pain? Perhaps humankind was more amusing that way. Perhaps they provided entertainment”
― David Seltzer, The Omen

“Well," she said, "the best thing to do with a bad day is to end it. I'm going up to bed.”
― David Seltzer, The Omen

“Woe to you, Oh Earth and Sea, for the Devil sends the beast with wrath, because he knows the time is short ... Let him who hath understanding reckon the number of the beast, for it is a human number, its number is six hundred and sixty-six. Armageddon. The end of the world. The battle over Israel.”
― David Seltzer, The Omen

“Its mother, sir … was a jackal!" A sob escaped the priest's throat. "He was born of a jackal! I saw it myself!”
― David Seltzer, The Omen

“fear the good because it will go away … I fear the bad because I'm too weak to withstand it.”
― David Seltzer, The Omen

“For the sake of your wife, Signor, God will forgive this deception. And for the sake of this child who will otherwise have no home ...”
― David Seltzer, The Omen

“the therapy had indeed been troubling, for she had scratched the surface of her fears, and found beneath it a bottomless pit of anxiety and despair. The life she led was fraught with confusion, and she felt she no longer knew who she was. She remembered who she used to be and what she once wanted, but that was all gone now, and she could envision no future.”
― David Seltzer, The Omen

“We are caught together," he said, quoting Henry Beston, "in the net of life and time. We are fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of the earth.”
― David Seltzer, The Omen