Quotes About Destiny

Choose a future... But no one chooses a future. You choose a path without being certain where it leads.

Have you never dreamed of someone coming to you and telling you that you were no mortal child, but one made of magic? Have you never dreamed about being taken from your pathetic little life to one of vast greatness?

Not me." She shakes her head. "I am going to fall in love." I am surprised into laughter. "So you've just decided? I didn't think it worked like that. I thought love was supposed to happen when you least expected it, like sap to the skull." "Well, I have decided," she says.

Marry me,' he says. 'Become the Queen of Elfhame.

We don't always have a choice in our fate.

I read this book once that said we meet the people we need to meet when we're ready for them. Maybe that's why we met. To try and help each other figure out who we are now.

May we see our paths clearly, may we follow them truly, and may the roads we walk always bring us back together safely from wherever we have wandered, to wherever we dare call home.

For fate has wove the thread of life with pain, And twins ev'n from the birth are Misery and Man!

And the plan of Zeus was being accomplished.

A dream, too, is from Zeus.

Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him.

And they die an equal death — the idler and the man of mighty deeds.

Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment.

The fates have given mankind a patient soul.

Not even Achilles will bring all his words to fulfillment.

You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another the lyre and song, and in another wide-sounding Zeus puts a good mind.

Surely these things lie on the knees of the gods.

Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings.

Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you - it's born with us the day that we are born.

No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man's hour is come, be he brave or be he coward, there is no escape for him when he has once been born.

No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny.

Political liberty, the tranquility of a nation, nay, knowledge itself, are gifts on which destiny has laid a tax of blood!

Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.

Gods have bestowed our genius on us; They will also find its use some day.