Quotes About Destiny

At his passing, there was not even an eddy in the snow, neither the briefest glimpse of the occluded moon nor the faintest stirring through the trees. In this regard, her death, when sooner or later it came, would be like his: the world indifferent, turning smoothly onward toward the fascination of another dawn.

To believe in luck, you must believe that the universe is a roulette wheel and that instead of paying out to us what we have earned, it pays out only what it wishes.

Fate isn't a straight road, I said, becoming the oracle that earlier in the day I had declined to be for her. There are forks in it, many different routes to different ends. We have the free will to choose the path.

There is no fate, only free will, and we were just in the way of other people's free will when they decided to do the Devil's work. People are doing the Devil's work everywhere you go; there's no avoiding it unless you go live on a mountaintop somewhere, a hundred miles from everyone.

I'm only what I'm here to be.

I'd guess that what's behind you is much more than what lies ahead, though you have a way to go yet.

because wherever else the future leads, it leads ultimately to death, the end that is present in my beginning and in yours.

In life, little happens by chance, and most bad hands we're dealt are the consequence of our actions, which are shaped by our wisdom and our ignorance.

Life offers infinite possible roads. Sometimes your head chooses the route, sometimes your heart. And sometimes, for better or worse, neither head nor heart can resist the stubborn pull of fate.

I am the One, the all and the only. I live in the Pendleton as surely as I live everywhere. I am the Pendleton's history and its destiny. The building is my place of conception, my monument, my killing ground.

rotten as the minds of those who believe they can learn all that exists to be known and can control anything they wish to control, who believe that it is their right, above the rights of all other men and women, to shape the destinies of their neighbors, cities, nations, and the Earth entire, according to their whims.

Beneficiary of a seven-figure trust fund, destined to inherit a greater fortune

On the road that I have taken, one day, walking, I awaken, amazed to see where I have come, where I'm going, where I'm from.

The thing pursuing him, however, was not only his past but also his fate, and the rails that led away from it also led inexorably to it.

Destiny struggles to reassert the pattern that was meant to be. But sometimes, happily it fails. ... Destiny struggles to reassert the pattern that was meant to be, (...) And sometimes, happily, it succeeds.

Ian Stonebridge

Already he knew the future. He was making it.

Atropos was the goddess who cut the thread of life.

In truth, there were no tracks of destiny through the chaos of life, only paths forged by decisions. She had dreamed of riding a fast train to stardom, but the rails and ties of those tracks had never been carefully laid.

And anyway, things have a way of happening that force you to be what you are.

truth, there were no tracks of destiny through the chaos of life, only paths forged by decisions.

whoever solved the knot was destined to rule all of Asia, he simply sliced it with his sword.

If we live forever, it doesn't matter so much what happens to us here.

We have all been brought into the world for some reason, and we must wonder why and hope to learn. My