Top 60 Superstitious Quotes

The renaissance movement and social reformers have taught us that superstitious beliefs and customs should be challenged and opposed.

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

I’m one of the most superstitious people I know. There are these two battling parts of me, one is very rational and intellectual, and the other part of me, at my core, I believe in magic in a certain way, and serendipity.

I’m extremely superstitious.

I have always believed in magic. I used to run into the woods as a little kid looking for witches. But I’m not superstitious, because I m not afraid of it. I see it as something really beautiful, and I wouldn’t want to live in a world without magic.

I am so superstitious that I think even discussing this subject is dangerous and will probably bring me terrible luck. Having been raised a Catholic, superstition becomes almost part of your DNA. The challenge is to slowly rid yourself of these little delusions.

My family was very loving but also very superstitious. My mother was always telling us, ‘Don’t walk under a ladder or you’ll have bad luck,’ or, ‘If you spill salt, be sure and toss a pinch over your shoulder, or you’re in trouble.’

I’m not superstitious about good luck charms and all that. I don’t have any ring or any tangible thing as a charm. But I like to have at least one of my parents with me during my shows. It gives me strength to find their faces… or my brothers… in the audience. It comforts me.

I don’t agree with superstitious routines, but there are a couple of things I’ll always do before performing. I’ll get together with the band and chill out, and then, just before I go on stage, I’ll always check my flies.

I am a very superstitious person.

Yeah I am superstitious. I use certain divot tools or ball markers and will change from time to time depending on how I’m playing.

I’m completely lacking any sense of religious belief, but I am superstitious.

It’s a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.

I get superstitious. I always have to have some form of potato, either chips or mashed potato or roast potatoes on a show day.

Obviously I am Prateik Babbar but I would like to be called Prateik. I am superstitious; there is a spiritual reason why.

I have had the same shinpads since I was eight or nine years old. Everyone laughs in the dressing room because of them but I am superstitious with that.

My insights come in periods of working. There are wonderful moments of surprise, but I’m superstitious enough not to want to talk about them.

The Jewish part of me is superstitious.

I don’t like persuaded sitters. I never could paint a cat if the cat had any scruples, religious, superstitious, or otherwise, about sitting.

The one thing I’ve always done, because I like the sound of my guitar from where I sit – meaning not in front of it – so what I do is, I put microphones around my ears. I have them around my head, too. I don’t know if it’s a superstitious thing, but it’s actually how I recorded my first album.

I was very superstitious when I was a teenager, and I had to fight against that because it made me feel anxious.

I generally mark my ball with a quarter, but sometimes I’ll use a Canadian one-dollar coin. I have a bunch from when I played on the Canadian Tour. I’m not superstitious.

I am very superstitious about toasts. I never toast with water, and I’m very careful to make eye contact with everyone I toast with.

Fishermen can be very superstitious and sometimes you do find yourself thinking, this fish has got a curse on it, it’s just not going to happen.

I’m very superstitious.

I’m only superstitious on the tennis court.

I swear my car won’t run unless I’m picking my nose: At least, I’m that superstitious about it, so I don’t want to take any chances.

I started playing the guitar when I was 14. I’m not superstitious about guitars, but I do need strings to be old because that’s part of my sound, and I don’t like steel strings.

I used to be very superstitious, and then I got too much into that. I just try to stay away from all the superstitions that I can and try to get as calm as I can before the game. That’s my new superstition: just to get as calm as I can.

A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.

I am not a very superstitious person, but I do believe in mental preparation.

I’m superstitious about my hair. I don’t like to cut it before big fights.

We are still fearful, superstitious and all-too-human creatures. At times, we forget the magnitude of the havoc we can wreak by off-loading our minds onto super-intelligent machines, that is, until they run away from us, like mad sorcerers’ apprentices, and drag us up to the precipice for a look down into the abyss.

I am not a superstitious person.

I haven’t been really superstitious once I left baseball, actually.

I’m not superstitious.

I’m very superstitious. I come from a family that’s big on not painting the nursery until the baby is home.

Superstition is the irrational belief that an object or behavior has the power to influence an outcome, when there’s no logical connection between them. Most of us aren’t superstitious – but most of us are a ‘littlestitious.’

I change my socks often, because I had bad bouts of athlete’s foot fungus infections as a kid. I may be able to change socks less frequently and not get the fungus. But, I’d rather not run the test to determine just how infrequently I could change socks. I don’t feel superstitious about it.

I am not really superstitious but do follow certain established norms.

I’m not superstitious at all. I’m not a Russian.

I’m very superstitious.

I became a sceptic of one way of seeing the world. And I think it is what started me in my awareness that any worldview is superstitious.

The natural inclination in all humans is to posit a force, a spirit, outside of us. That tendency toward superstitious magical thinking is just built into our nature.

I’m a little superstitious.

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

I’m really superstitious.

I’m kind of superstitious. If I miss a game or practice, I think I will play bad the next day.

Writing is a solitary experience. I’m extremely superstitious. If I talk about the book or name the title out loud before finishing, I feel the energy I need to write will be drained. It’s so intimate, I can’t even share it with my wife.

Like Dave Mustaine, I ain’t superstitious.

There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death.

I’m quite a rational person. I’m not very superstitious, but I really do enjoy horror as a genre.

I’m not super superstitious, but if I listen to a song and then I do well, then that becomes my song for however long it works for.

I’m a little superstitious.

I think we writers are very superstitious. We don’t know why it’s working when it’s working, so we attach cause and effect.

I’m not superstitious. But my mother doesn’t allow me to cut my nails after dark. Earlier, I used to wear a scapular from Potta around my neck, given to me by a family member. But during my shoots, it’s not possible, so I tie it on my right wrist for protection.

I didn’t tell any of my friends that I wanted to be a comedian, because I was superstitious. I thought if I told people, it wouldn’t happen. So I kept it all in my head for years and years.

I have a half an hour warm-up I do that my voice teacher gave me. I exercise at least for an hour during the day. I don’t have any superstitious rituals or anything like that.

I still like to keep tapes of the few minutes before the final take, things that happen before the session. Maybe it’s superstitious, but I believe if I had done things differently – if I had walked around the studio or gone out – it wouldn’t have turned out that way.

I am very superstitious. I trod on a wet towel before winning the Junior World Championships, and now I have to do that every time.