Quotes About Destiny

For Hild, seer, prophet, and most favoured niece, on her birth day.

Belonging was not a seer's wyrd.

One day, to suit some purpose of their own, her mother or her uncle would pluck her from her life and send her to live in a fen with a man she didn't know. In the world of skirt and sword, it was part of her wyrd. But not all her wyrd, and not yet. There was so much to learn, so much to know.

Light of the world. This was what she knew. This was who she was. Her wyrd had been before she was. She chose this path, this place, because she had always chosen.

The two reeked of wyrd.

What mattered was the truth, rising like birdsong, like the scent of flowers opening to the sun, of her wyrd. Cian's hand beneath hers. It always had been so. It had always been meant to be so. Fate goes over as it must.

She was baptised to Christ-their name for the pattern, her path, her wyrd. She was still herself.

The lake was her destiny; her path to it lay through this knight.

This is your wyrd," Hild said. "You'll be a queen. You'll have children.

Wyrd never flowed along expected paths.

Hild watched them and the other not-yet-girdled girls-Cille and Leofe, who were already meant for each other, and half a dozen younger-and wondered when her mother might choose her gemæcce and who it might be.

It occurred to Hild that both Hereswith and Cian now had their own paths. She had only her mother's dream.

A sword given to his hand by a king: a shield and a path.

A gift. From a king. To her as the light of the world. What should she do?

The sword called to her, and somehow Arturus felt it.

Man's freedom does not free him from necessity. But twists it into unforeseeable consequences.

The correct use of liberty can consist in adhering to a destiny, but my liberty consists in being able to refuse to do that. The right to fail is an important right of man.

The 'wheel of fortune' is a better analogy for history than the 'evolution of humanity.

Worauf steuert die Welt zu? Auf dieselbe Vergänglichkeit, aus der sie kommt.

Somehow destiny comes into play. These children end up with you and you end up with them. It's something quite magical.

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go they merely determine where you start.

in accordance with the primitive arrangement of things, the most trifling causes produce the greatest events, and the grandest undertakings end in the most insignificant results.

But, in accordance with the primitive arrangement of things, the most trifling causes produce the greatest events, and the grandest undertakings end in the most insignificant results.

I brought you into this world. It is on me to take it away.