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Quotes About Destiny

And yet, even if one person finds his way … that means there is a Way. Even if I personally fail to reach it.
~ Philip K. Dick
Everything is destined to reappear as simulation. Landscapes as photography, woman as the sexual scenario, thoughts as writing, terrorism as fashion and the media, events as television. Things seem only to exist by virtue of this strange destiny. You wonder whether the world itself isn't just here to serve as advertising copy in some other world.' Jean Baudrillard
~ Philip K. Dick
zaman. belki zaman da yuvarlakt?r, t?pk? dünya gibi. hindistana ulaÅŸmak için bat?ya doÄŸru yelken açars?n. sana gülerler ama sonunda hindistan önündedir, arkanda deÄŸil.zamanla- belki hepimiz yelken açm??, kendimizi doÄŸuda sanarak giderken, bizi bekleyen 'çarm?ha gerilmek' ten baÅŸka bir ÅŸey deÄŸildir.
~ Philip K. Dick
We are all insects," he said to Miss Ephreikian. "Groping toward something terrible or divine. Do you not agree?
~ Philip K. Dick
Dovunque andrai, ti si richiederà di fare qualcosa di sbagliato. È la condizione fondamentale della vita essere costretti a far violenza alla propria personalità. Prima o poi, tutte le creature viventi devono farlo. È l'ombra estrema, il difetto della creazione; è la maledizione che si compie, la maledizione che si nutre della vita. In tutto l'universo.»
~ Philip K. Dick
What a job to have to do , Rick thought. I'm a scourge, like famine or plague. Where I go the ancient curse follows. As Mercer said, I am required to do wrong. Everything I've done has been wrong from the start. Anyhow, now it's time to go home. Maybe after I've been there awhile with Iran, I'll forget.
~ Philip K. Dick
I have an odd paradox for you, he said. Those who take lives will lose their own. Those who kill, will die. But he who gives his own life away will live again!
~ Philip K. Dick
he still never saw her as anything but a direct, literal invitation of God's, dropped into his life for reasons he would never know.
~ Philip K. Dick
Death at each moment, one avenue which is open to us at any point. And eventually we choose it, in spite of ourselves. Or we give up and take it deliberately.
~ Philip K. Dick
We do not serve up people to ourselves; the universe does. The universe makes certain decisions and on the basis of these decisions some people live and some people die. This is a harsh law. But every creature yields to it out of necessity.
~ Philip K. Dick
O universo te dá corda, deixa você se debater à vontade, e depois puxa para você se enforcar.
~ Philip K. Dick
He fixed things—clocks, refrigerators, vidsenders and destinies.
~ Philip K. Dick
It was like, he had once thought, a little plastic boat that would sail on forever, without incident, until it finally sank, which would be a secret relief to all.
~ Philip K. Dick
Apuesto a que te dijo que fue el destino el que te trajo aquí, ¿verdad? Creen que son peones en manos de seres superiores, cuando en realidad son peones en manos de sus propias subconscientes, que se han desbocado.
~ Philip K. Dick
We are, Adams realized, a cursed race. Genesis is right; there is a stigma on us, a mark. Because only a cursed, marked, flawed species would use its discoveries as we are using them.
~ Philip K. Dick
I'm doomed, in the classic sense.
~ Unknown
because he's Will
~ Philip Pullman
When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed. At that moment all Will's choices existed at once. But to keep them all in existence meant doing nothing. He had to choose, after all.
~ Philip Pullman
Why, yes, the mo­ment you're born, your death comes in­to the world with you, and it's your death that takes you out.
~ Philip Pullman
Both of them sat silent on the moss-covered rock in the slant of sunlight through the old pines and thought how many tiny chances had conspired to bring them to this place. Each of those chances might have gone a different way.
~ Philip Pullman
Eventually, child, you will come to the land of the dead with no effort, no risk, a safe, calm journey, in the company of your own death, your special, devoted friend, who's been beside you every moment of your life, who knows you better than yourself.
~ Philip Pullman
And remember this: take the hard road, not the easy one. The road that leads to life is a hard one, and it passes through a narrow gate, but the road to destruction is easy, and the gate is broad. Plenty take the easy road; few take the hard one. Your job is to find the hard one, and go by that.
~ Philip Pullman
She turned away. Behind them lay pain and death and fear; ahead of them lay doubt, and danger, and fathomless mysteries. But they weren't alone. So Lyra and her dæmon turned away from the world they were born in, and looked toward the sun, and walked into the sky.
~ Philip Pullman
Hepimiz kadere tabiyiz, ama hepimiz sanki deÄŸilmiÅŸiz gibi hareket etmeliyiz. dedi Cad?. Yoksa umutsuzluktan ölürüz.
~ Philip Pullman