Quotes About Destiny

A person is a novel: you don't know how it will end until the very last page. Otherwise, it wouldn't be worth reading to the very end.

Quem sabe como tu és? O homem é como os romances: só na última página é que se sabe o final

Wings are needed in order to fly, but we don't need to fly anywhere. We have arrived at the terminus. We have found what we wanted.

Man is like a novel: up to the last page one does not know what the end will be. It would not be worth reading otherwise

Ä°nsan son sayfas?na kadar ne olaca?? bilinmeyen bir roman gibidir. BaÅŸka türlü olsayd? okunmaya deÄŸmezdi...

Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.

There's a reason for every relationship, that's what the saying means. Husband and wife, parents and children, friends and enemies, strangers you bump into in the street. It takes three thousand years of prayers to place your head side by side with your loved one's on the pillow. For father and daughter? A thousand years, maybe. People don't end up randomly as father and daughter, that's for sure.

Two people who are constantly seeking experience rarely settle for each other. Two people enduring experience rarely meet in life. That's why Fabienne and I were meant for each other. We were the perfect pair, one seeking all that the other could experience.

What I own is my fortune; what I'm owed is my fate,

In ancient tales she could have been one of those divine creatures who borrow their mothers' wombs to enter the mortal world and make a name for themselves, as a heroine or a devil, depending on the intention of the heavenly powers.

Every tomorrow is determined by every today.

You're a fool. If you'd stayed where you came from, you wouldn't have ended up like this...

A prince indebted is a fortune made.

You are the root, and only God knows that the flower will be.

No matter how lucky a person is, the moment he decides he wants to die, there's nothing that will keep him alive.

My days restricted... my fate decided. And in that, the one and only freedom allowed to me... was to love...

Just now I had a dream. I'll see you again. I know it. Beneath the falls.

There is nothing in the least special about you. I guarantee you a long life. You have not been chosen by the gods, you will never be at one with your acts, you do not have in you the green light to flash like young lightning with the speed of the gods and destroy yourself. All you have is a certain premature senility. Your life will be suited for coupon-clipping. Nothing more.

The path we're taking is not a road, Kiyo, it's a pier, and it ends someplace where the sea begins. It can't be helped.

Yet another memory: It is the odor of sweat, an odor that drove me onward, awakened my longings, overpowered me… Needless to say, the odor could not, at that time, have had any direct relationship with sexual sensations, but it did gradually and tenaciously arouse within me a sensuous craving for such things as the destiny of soldiers, the tragic nature of their calling, the distant countries they would see, the ways they would die…

For even in the triviality of a single playing card missing from a deck, the world's order is inevitably turned awry.

Beneath the sky, wretched lonliness was no jot better or worse than good fortune and success. To put it another way, wherever you stood, the same starry sky was peering down.

it did gradually and tenaciously arouse within me a sensuous craving for such things as the destiny of soldiers, the tragic nature of their calling, the distant countries they would seem the ways they would die.

it did gradually and tenaciously arouse within me a sensuous craving for such things as the destiny of soldiers, the tragic nature of their calling, the distant countries they would see, the ways they would die.