Quotes About Destiny

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.

He was twenty-four, ready for adventure, and happy to go wherever the winds took him. He'd better be, as Hester reminded him; he wasn't going to go anywhere else.

All the time I was away, Lyra said, I never thought about that. All I thought about was just the time I was in, just the present. There were plenty of times when I thought I didn't get a future at all. And now... Well, suddenly finding I've got a whole life to live, but no...but no idea what to do with it, well, it's like having the alethiometer but no idea how to read it.

The two dark figures of the bene elim has not moved. But they spoke: You must come with us now. Lord Asriel needs you at once. The enemy's power is growing every minute. The shaman has told you what your task is. Follow us and help us win. Come with us. Come this way. Come now. And Will looked from them to Lyra's rucksack and back again, and he didn't hear a word they said.

They would see the true image of what human beings always could be, once they had come into their inheritance. The Dust pouring down from the stars had found a living home again, and these children-no-longer-children, saturated with love, were the cause of it all.

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 the moment all...choices existed at once. But to keep them in existence meant doing nothing. He had to choose, after all.

They both 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.

We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if were are not, said the witch, or die of despair.

One future would close for ever as the other began to unfold.

Voltò le spalle. Dietro di loro c'erano dolore, morte e terrore; davanti dubbio, pericolo e misteri insondabili. Ma non erano soli. Così Lyra e il suo daimon voltarono le spalle al mondo in cui erano nati, e guardarono verso il sole e camminarono nel cielo.

We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not," said the witch, "or die of despair

Tutti siamo soggetti al fato. Però tutti dobbiamo agire come se non lo fossimo. O morire di disperazione.

You speak of destiny as if it was fixed. And I ain't sure I like that any more than a war I'm enlisted in without knowing about it. Where's my free will, if you please?

One day, said the harpy, I will see you again, Lyra Silvertongue. And if I know you're here, I shan't be afraid, Lyra said. Goodbye, Gracious Wings, till I die.

Algunas historias son así. Cuando se les ha dado cuerda, nada las detiene; avanzan hasta alcanzar el final previsto. Aunque los personajes deseen con todas sus fuerzas modificar su destino, son incapaces de hacerlo.

then?" Tialys asked Will. "What then? Well

Find the girl and the boy. Waste no more time. You must play the serpent.

Perhaps, she thought calmly, whatever moves the alethiometer's needle is making the Aurora glow too.

We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not, or die of despair.

The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy—that is every man's tragedy.

he walked away understanding, (...) how easily life can be one thing rather than another and how accidentally a destiny is made... on the other hand, how accidental fate may seem when things can never turn out other than they do.

Of a terrible, the incomprehensible way one's most banal, incidental, even comical choices archive the most disproportionate result.

He was struck by how lives diverge and by how powerless each of us is up against the force of circumstance. And where does God figure in this?

Stunned by how little he'd gotten over her and she'd gotten over him, he walked away understanding, as outside his reading in classical Greek drama he'd never had to understood before, how easily life can be one thing rather than another and how accidentally a destiny is made...